NYPD: No Leads in Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes

Yesterday, Police Comissioner Ray Kelly visited the synagogues and other buildings to denounce the numerous swastikas and other anti-Semitic messages found covering the Brooklyn Heights last week. And on Saturday, swastikas were found painted outside a synagogue in Bensonhurst.

The Sun reports that apparently a Holocaust survivor found swastikas outside a Bensonhurst synagogue; Rabbi Baruch Krupnik said, "He's really shaken. We can't tell you that it's unexpected after the Brooklyn Heights incident." So far, Kelly said the police have no leads, even after reviewing surveillance footage. The NYPD does believe that one person is behind the vandalism in Brooklyn Heights and that it is not connected to other incidents, such as swastikas found on a Williamsburg yeshiva's bus.

Kelly said, “New York City is the most diverse and the most tolerant city in the world, but one thing we won’t tolerate is this type of vengeful behavior. We are going to continue to devote appropriate resources to make certain that we bring this investigation to a successful conclusion.”

Kelly was accompanied by Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni, who thanked the NYPD for its quick response. There is a $10,000 reward, from a number of groups including the Anti-Defamation League, for information about the vandalism. Here's information on the NYPD's Hate Crime Unit.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 1, 2007 8:13 AM

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guest

#7: Pity the Nazis didn't kill idiots who misuse the possessive apostrophe. Here's a hint: THE FUCKING APOSTROPHE DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE YOU FUCKING FEEL LIKE IT! THERE ARE RULES!

guest

Oh please! It was done by some asshole kids trying to be outrageous. Give it up already.

guest

So a $10,000 reward from the Anti Defamation League and a visit from the ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER?

That's quite a business they're running. Since I'm a Christian and I"m appalled by Anti-Christian Graffiti I"ve been seeing all my life in various bathrooms, maybe I should start a similar business as well. Jesus what a pile of BS.

ed_Extinct

the nazi's wanted anyone who wasn't aryan dead.

this included:

gypsy's

arabs

jews

blacks

white's who didn't look aryan

handicapped

latins

mentally retarded

any mental disease

any physical disease

asians

basically, if they succeeded in WWII we'd have a world of mental defectives kinda like #4, but much worse.

JMH

Fuck off, [4].

guest

What???!!!

I'll tell you who did it. The owner of Magnetic Field, because he is truly anti-semitic.

guest

No wonder, since these crimes were probably perpetrated by their own...

guest

funny how these things happen right around the time the Iranian president is in town. I think these are self inflected wounds.

guest

And this, Gothamist, is why there are graffiti laws, because there is no curator in the world of street art and sometimes even those who love "amazing" tags are offended by graffiti.