New
York City Police Dept. investigates reports of smashed headstones at
Brooklyn's Washington Cemetery • Attack comes days after Rochester
cemetery targeted, on heels of similar attacks in Philadelphia and St.
Louis • Police "taking matter seriously."
Boaz Bismuth - Israel Hayom
Smashed headstones at the
Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn on Saturday
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Photo credit: Twitter
The New York City Police Department is
investigating reports of vandalism at a local Jewish cemetery. On
Sunday, a police spokesman announced that the department was
investigating a possible hate crime, apparently involving the smashing
of gravestones at the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn.
New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind tweeted
photos of the smashed gravestones on Saturday, with some stones seen
strewn on the ground.
"I received a call after Shabbos from the Boro
Park Shomrim that some tombstones at Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn
were down," Hikind said Saturday. "I've spoken with the police who are
investigating. They've found a cut in the cemetery fence and are taking
the matter very seriously."
This incident comes on the heels of a string
of acts of vandalism targeting Jewish cemeteries in recent weeks. Over
the last two weeks, a cemetery in Philadelphia and another in St. Louis
were targeted. In addition, five headstones were found toppled at a
Rochester, New York cemetery last Thursday.
Meanwhile, authorities said Friday that Juan
Thompson, a disgraced journalist, had been arrested on suspicion of
having made at least eight of the scores of threats against Jewish
institutions across the U.S. According to authorities, Thompson was
trying to incriminate his ex-girlfriend.
Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis, the
first case to emerge from a federal investigation into a surge of
threats against Jewish Community Centers and schools that has rattled
American Jews.
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