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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerSHEEPSHEAD BAY – “We are at the scene of a hate crime massacre,” Council Member Mark Treyger said. “Make no mistake, a hate crime massacre.” Elected officials and community members gathered outside Seaport Buffet, where a hammer attack ten days ago resulted in deaths of three people. Though
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerMANHATTAN – It was a packed room yesterday on the 16th floor of 250 Broadway when the Committee on Civil and Human Rights unanimously voted for a bill to officially recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day in NYC on January 27 and declare the week after as Holocaust Education Week.
hate crimes
UPDATE (12/5/18): Police have announced that a suspect in the attack on a Jewish man last week has been arrested on charges of committing a hate crime. Enrique Gerena, 32, was arrested by NYPD for third-degree assault as a hate crime for sucker-punching a 33-year-old man on Throop
brighton beach
BRIGHTON BEACH – The number of anti-Semitic incidents is up so much that it seems we are reporting about one a day some weeks. Earlier in November, two teenagers were arrested for drawing swastikas in Brooklyn Heights [/swastika-graffiti-arrest/]. No sooner was the man that vandalized the Union Temple arrested [/man-who-defamed-union-temple-facing-25-years-for-hate-crimes/] , that
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – Two teenagers have been arrested and charged after drawing swastikas on residences in Brooklyn Heights last week, police confirmed. Jarrick Wiltshire, 18, and Daul Moultrie, 17, both turned themselves in and were arrested after police circulated surveillance photos of the suspects following the incident, which took place on
Central Brooklyn
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz / Flickr)BED-STUY – Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Wednesday that a 72-year-old man has been indicted on charges of menacing as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon, and other offenses for allegedly yelling homophobic slurs at a passenger on
Bensonhurst
There haven’t big any big protests in Sunset Park or Bay Ridge yet, but here is an image from a rally held in Brooklyn Heights this weekend in response to swastika graffiti found on a children’s playground. (Photo by Pamela Wong / BKLYNER [/check-your-hate-senator-squadron-beastie-boys-ad-rock-lead-rally-after-hate-graffiti-found-at-adam-yauch-park/] )On the heels of Donald
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Photo via Governor Cuomo’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/].In the wake of a reported spike in hate crimes after last week’s presidential election, local officials are taking action. As first reported by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-state-launches-hotline-discrimination-complaints-article-1.2874631]
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Photo via Governor Cuomo’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/GovernorAndrewCuomo/].In the wake of a reported spike in hate crimes after last week’s presidential election, local officials are taking action. As first reported by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-state-launches-hotline-discrimination-complaints-article-1.2874631]
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Photo by Mitchell J. Silver.Police say they have no updates yet on two threatening incidents that took place this month in Fort Greene Park. A rope with a noose was found hanging from a tree in Fort Greene Park mid-day on Monday, as first reported by DNAInfo [https://www.
Bensonhurst
The intersection of Bay 20th Street and Cropsey Avenue, where two Muslim women pushing baby strollers were assaulted last Thursday. (Photo: Google Maps)A shocking assault on two Muslim women and their babies, just days before the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, has been condemned by local leaders.
Bensonhurst
(Photo via francis_ellen [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGoppKSnTZ9/?hl=en])In the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando [/stand-orlando-tonight-grand-army-plaza-unity-vigil/#.V5o1XZMrLe0], the killings in Minnesota, Baton Rouge and Dallas, and the string of attacks [/cops-investigating-hate/#.V5o1JJMrLe0] against Muslims during Ramadan, a group of Bay Ridgites are coming