B’klyn Stickups Probed as Jew-hate Spree
Jews in Crown Heights have been terrorized by a spate of gunpoint robberies fueled by anti-Semitism, police sources said.
Most of the six attacks occurred during the span of a few hours on the evening of Jan. 2. In the first instance, at 6:20 p.m. a 15-year-old dressed in Hasidic-style clothing was approached on President Street near Albany Avenue by two black men who made anti-Jewish comments and demanded money.
The thugs didn’t take anything, but struck again just a minute later, brandishing a gun at a 27-year-old Hasidic man, and again demanding money and making slurs.
Once again they came up empty handed.
Fourteen minutes later, the hooligans moved their reign of terror to Montgomery Street and Albany Avenue and forced their way into a 25-year-old Hasidic man’s apartment just as he was entering it. They made bigoted remarks, waved their gun, grabbed some cash and left.
Their spree started up about two hours later, when they attacked another Hasidic man at St. John’s Place and Utica Avenue. They pushed him, beat him and made slurs as they demanded cash, but took nothing.
Ten minutes later, they grabbed a 35-year-old man and rifled through his pockets, taking a cellphone and some cash.
Four days later, two men believed to be the same thugs tried to break into an apartment on Montgomery Street and Kingston Avenue.
The thugs tricked a woman who opened the door believing it was an older child knocking, sources said.
One of the intruders whipped out a gun and demanded cash, but the brave woman, who was holding a baby, slammed the door before they could enter.
Dovid
Why wasn’t there a full scale lookout as soon as the first crime hammened? Or was chanima busy geting his picture take somehere ?
NRA MEMBER
Its about time NY become a “shall-issue” state
moshe
what can i do?
gods right hand man
foolish questions dont help anyone
way i see it
the jews havent got much money
ilovemytwins1
some one needs to put this in the news and warn more people this is awful some one needs to give a sketch to the police these guys need to be caught now before things get worse and these guys get more violent
Leah who wrote the article in the N-shei
Hmm. I feel bad for my friends and family in CH. Here in VA you can carry open if you want, and concealed if you have a permit. Too bad your mayor is such a jerk, and would rather let the this keep going on. Y’all can’t get a gun even if you want one.
for rudy
this didn’t happen under giuliani…..why is bloomberg so proud of himself????
walla
no one was alerted to the scene?
the authorities didn’t immediately start a search?
how were these people able to pull of stunt after stunt without being caught?
something is really strange with this story, no????
automatice fire
to Moshe:
Turn your home into a fortress, bullet-proof your car, buy a gun, learn to use it, or move.
A third option is to continue voting in morons who don’t care one whit about OUR safety, as long as they are skimming from the community.
Not happenning
Nothing in the world will stop this unless the cops stop tolerationg the “lower class” of crimes. As long as the 71st treats muggings, car break ins, and assaults as big jokes, the perps will become more and more emboldened.
And I can promise the 71st that they do not want emboldened punks walking around with guns.
Eventually one of theirs will get hurt.
whats gonna be?!
to walla: ya it is kinda strange when u think abt it..i mean 6 of these things occured and NOTHING!! is done! not even a sketch of this “gang” or wtvr.
the nypd is responding in a lazy way i would say.if they were REALLY on it//they would get some answers//and the lady on montgomery couldnt identify..or sketch something/..she met them clearly ..no?
sholom
Why is it that only after these crimes happen, the police are suddenly out there on every corner?
A week later it’s back to the regular, which is, very few police around, except for where?.. You guessed it,in the most central part of crown heights where assaults are least likely to happen, 770! You have a big van plus 2 to 3 cars hanging out there. Maybe they feel that having a police presence in such a popular area will make us think that they’re always here when we need them, which they clearly aren’t. What, are we all stupid? Are we suddenly now convinced and feel that we are under police protection just as it should be? It’s simply, patronising. Because, the whole community’s upset, lets pacify them.
Obviously there should be police outside 770 on a regular basis, but how about having cops at strategic points constantly patrolling our community, instead of the entire precint pouring into the street for a wk or 2 afterwards to mollify us.
3QTR
Being Jewish – and a retired NYPD MOS who worked in the Seven-One, I can assure you it’s not the uniforms or anti-crime unit that takes this lightly. All there needs to be is ONE word from 1PP – and the area will be flooded with blue from other Brooklyn South commands.