'Oath Keeper' For BK Council Seat?+BB Gun Shooting • Daily Digest

Good morning, Brooklyn! It's Friday, Oct. 15. Brett Wynkoop is a City Council candidate running for the seat currently occupied by Brad Lander in District 39 in Park Slope. Nothing unusual there. But wait: Wynkoop is also a member of the Oath Keepers, a "right-wing extremist group" tied to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. See all the details below.

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Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:

1. In a Park Slope district that voted 98.5 percent Democrat when the seat was last open, Brett Wynkoop, a member of the right-wing Oath Keepers, is running for City Council. (Patch.com)
2. A 23-year old man wearing clothes associated with Jewish tradition was shot with a BB gun from a moving car in Crown Heights on Monday. (Patch.com)
3. A "dangerous" canopy is looming over a Brooklyn playground, according to a new lawsuit. (Brooklyn Patch)
4. Kyrie Irving is doubling down on his vaccine decision after being benched. (The New York Times)
5. Breast cancer survivors joined together to raise awareness at a Brooklyn fashion show. (WABC-TV)

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About me: Kevin Phinney has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in El Paso. Phinney attended college in Austin. He has done television work as a reporter and commentator, and is a former host of a weekday drive-time radio show called "Kevin & Kevin in the Morning" on KGSR-FM (now known as Austin City Limits Radio). He is also the author of "Souled American, " a book tracking race relations in America through music. It was published by BILLBOARD Books, and is often used in college classrooms across the country.

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