STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The 24-year-old man accused of smearing his  excrement on his ex-girlfriend’s door and setting it ablaze launched  into a surreal rant in front of news photographers yesterday, declaring  himself a member of his own street gang and threatening to grab a  photographer’s camera.
"Yo, am I snitching? Yo, who’s the snitch?" Rasheen (Illuminati)  Harrison snarled as he was led into the holding area of Stapleton  Criminal Court. "Not you, not me, not ‘Gangsta Ra.’"
Looking somewhat giddy, the cherub-faced, stocky suspect then waxed  about how he’s "straight gangster," ranting that he’s part of "L-Gang."
"I’m neutral for life," he said. "I ain’t no Blood or a Crip. I got my own gang, Millionaire Mindframe."
Linda Moore, who said she’s Harrison’s aunt, told the Advance  yesterday he suffers from schizophrenia, and she railed against media  coverage making light of the incident.
"My nephew cannot help himself," she said. "He’s not doing this because he wants to."
He requires long-term mental health care, she said, but isn’t getting  it. Over the past two weeks, police repeatedly have taken Harrison to  Bayley Seton Hospital for psychiatric treatment, and each time, he has  been released after a short stay.
 "The system has failed him," she said. "This is a young man that I helped raise."
Harrison, of Hill Street in Stapleton, is accused of stripping naked  in the elevator of his ex-girlfriend’s apartment building on the 300  block of Vanderbilt Avenue in Clifton Sunday morning.
According to prosecutors, he then smeared his excrement on the  woman’s metal front door and lit it and his clothes ablaze. Five people,  including his ex, who’s pregnant with his child, and two young  children, were trapped inside, prosecutors said.
A neighbor heard him yelling "I’m the devil!" as the door burned.
Police and firefighters found him, still naked, in the hallway.
Later, he defecated a second time, in a cell at the North Shore’s  120th Precinct stationhouse in St. George, police allege, leading cops  to ship him to Bellevue Medical Center in Manhattan for treatment until  his arraignment on arson and other charges yesterday.
A judge ordered a psychiatric exam to determine if he’s fit to stand trial.
Harrison yelled at police and photographers from the moment he  stepped out of an NYPD patrol car and headed toward the courthouse  yesterday morning, and at one point bizarrely yelled out, "Tupac, man!" —  apparently referencing the slain rapper.
"Yo, tell ‘em I poo," he said, all while a videographer’s camera rolled.
Harrison is slated to return to court May 2.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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