Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Vandalism Spree Ensues Following Highway Attack On Rabbi’s Car

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    Some of the shattered car windows on Lee Avenue and Hooper Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.Brooklyn, NY – Approximately one dozen Williamsburg residents woke up this morning to discover their vehicles’ windows shattered by a pellet gun, police are trying to determine if the vehicles were selected randomly or if they were targeted by anti-Semitic vandals.

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    The overnight shooting spree began early this morning at 12:15 AM when Rabbi Aron Kraus of Williamsburg was traveling southbound on the Harlem River Drive from Monsey and an unknown individual in a dark colored SUV pulled up next to his car and shot out the windows with a pellet gun. Just thirty minutes later, the first car windows were discovered shattered in Williamsburg and at least twelve cars parked on Lee Avenue near Lynch Street had been vandalized.

    Police are still trying to determine if the shooting spree was the result of a hate crime and they are looking into a possible connection with two other anti Semitic incidents that occurred in recent days, with several newly painted swastikas discovered in both Borough Park and Kensington.


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    sholkramer
    sholkramer
    11 years ago

    Cmon this is not a hate crime if it was a hate crime they would of done it a few blocks away in bed stuy. As usual our politicians will say be quite and lick your wounds. We need new agresive politically incorrect leadership

    concerned_Jew
    concerned_Jew
    11 years ago

    you need neighborhood watchmen, Shomrim. Are there Shomrim covering this area? They should have appropriate training and be armed with at the very least tasers and have arrest powers, handcuff, etc.

    Wmsbg
    Wmsbg
    11 years ago

    Shomrim discovered the shattered car windows a few minutes after it was done, they right-away started a search for the car, but with no results

    mewhoze
    mewhoze
    11 years ago

    its never a hate crime when it involves Jews. if it were any other race it certainly would be one.
    its always open season on Jews…no punishment just do as you want.
    all the Rabbis carrying on about internet and making asifas should come out now and be heard about this before it escalates.
    and please dont say that it happened becuase the Rabbi was out too late and should have been home.
    More than likely he was coming from a wedding in Monsey at that hour.

    JohnG
    JohnG
    11 years ago

    NYPD only works the area in daylight hours, when they raise money for the bloomberg ticket quotas, unreported (by nypd) crime in the area is up by large numbers

    11 years ago

    Under what theory would someone know which cars or vans are owned by yidden versus goyim? Do you have some special gold star on your license plates in NY? Seems a bit paranoid to yell “anti-semitism” when some teenager with a bebe gun decides to shoot out a few windows. Out here they do the same with signs and mailboxes.

    mewhoze
    mewhoze
    11 years ago

    a lot of Jews have a sefer on their windshield or back window. some hav the hatzolah decal dangling from the inner mirror.
    i think many racists are savvy enuf to know that the vas and emt plates belong to hatzolah members as well.
    as i drive to and from the catskills on weekends i can probably guess 9 out of 10 correctly as to which vehicles are driven by Jewish people.

    newtransplant
    newtransplant
    11 years ago

    He means that they are mostly owned by jews in that area…..

    ActualJew
    ActualJew
    11 years ago

    This happened in Highland Park, NJ and it turned out to be a Jew. When he did it to a local Chabad House, they told the cops exactly who it was and they turned out to be right. Some crazy sh’mad. Hate to say it, but probably will be similar.