The brother of murdered Australian Yankel Rosenbaum has expressed no surprise that his killer is lying in a coma after being stabbed in the head with an ice pick.
Norman Rosenbaum reacts to the Nelson Stabbing
The brother of murdered Australian Yankel Rosenbaum has expressed no surprise that his killer is lying in a coma after being stabbed in the head with an ice pick.
“He is a violent criminal, a dangerous person, a bad guy. It doesn’t surprise me that he would get himself into this situation,” said Melbourne lawyer Norman Rosenbaum, speaking for the first time about the attack.
Lemrick Nelson, who killed 29-year-old Yankel Rosenbaum in race riots in New York in 1991, is in an induced coma in a Manhattan hospital after being stabbed in a possible road rage incident.
“Am I going to wish him all the best? Certainly not,” said Norman Rosenbaum.
“But my family’s pursuit has always been one of justice, not of revenge. We have never indicated in any way a liking for vigilante justice or anything like that.”
Yankel Rosenbaum was killed during the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn after a seven-year-old African-American boy, Gavin Cato, was knocked down and killed by a driver belonging to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Lubavitch community.
Nelson, a member of a gang shouting “Get the Jew!” stabbed Rosenbaum, who was visiting from Australia.
Three trials followed, by the end of which Nelson served only one of 10 years for which he was ultimately sentenced, because of the time already spent in prison. He was released in 2004 and has been living in New Jersey.
Norman Rosenbaum said: “I have as much feeling for him as he had for my brother.
“But his being attacked doesn’t bring my brother back. I don’t condone or advocate violence.”
He said that Nelson “never expressed sincere remorse” for stabbing his brother. “Maybe he will now appreciate the suffering he has caused others. He was also charged with attacking a black man in Georgia with a box cutter.
“That he is now seen as a victim is not going to cause me to revise my thoughts in any way.
“Are there ironies? Yes.”
your brother
Norman
there is a medrash that says
when someone is killed r”l the neshomo does not rest till the killer is punished
the 10 yrs in prison was a slap on the hand in comparison with the crime.
enough said
may your dear brother of all of us find peace and may he have a great place in heaven
with the ultamite hope and wish that very soon may we all rejoyce with him together with the coming of moshiach speedily
Steve
Mr Nelson, what goes around comes around!
meir
very interesting indeed.
BigBen
Norman all the best to you and your family. I know you uhave to be careful about what you say. But I say let Nelson and all dreck like him drop dead bekorov mamosh. This is justice.
#4
I totally agree with you. Enough of the PC and tell it like it is. He is a slimebag murderer who should get what he deserves. Induced coma? It’s amazing no one ran to insure the life of Rosenberg but for this scum, theyll do whatever to save him. What a shame.
No Nelson Fan
The Aibishter has His ways of getting all those Yimach Shimonick’s off the face of this world !
It’ll happen some way or another !
Let’s hope this Nelson has full awareness of his painful surroundings and may he have a long and painful suffering along with his family & friends !
Double standards of justice!
To #4 and #5:
Would you say the same thing about Martin Grossman, the Jewish cop killer? Should he have dropped dead? Just like Martin Grossman was drunk and high when he killed the cop, Lemrick Nelson had been drinking when he killed Yankel Rosenbaum.
chayafr
There is an old English saying“ The wheels of G-d grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small”.
May G-d avenge Yankel’s blood. May we begin to see His justice immediately now, for all the victims of senseless bloodshed and violence.
be proud
to no 7
i don’t think u can compare the 2 because martin was scared and did it as a reflex to get away (which was wrong no doubt), but this “nelson” did it 4 fun ,where did he come in to the picture with rosenbaum it was premeditated and for no good reason,(IL bet you r a liberal,i think u should have more “gaon yakov” and be able to see the difference yourself,all the beast).
Chiam S.
The difference between Nelson and Grossman is:
Nelson “never expressed sincere remorse” for stabbing his brother.
To No.7
There is a big difference, Nelson did it out of sinas yisroel, whereas Grossman did it thinking that he would save himself from being arrested by the cop. In addition, Grossman had remorse, whereas nelson doesn’t.
Grossman also didn’t get out after 10 years. We never advocated for him to be released from jail; only to spare him the death penalty.
Yea, Nelson-s got a drinking problem...
# 7, I guess Nelson was drinking when he attacked the black man in Georgia with a box cutter years later too…. Probably was drinking when he instigated getting an ice pick in his head too…
Double standard indeed!
# 7, you are ABSOLOUTELY right, there is a “double standard of justice!”. Martin Grossman was EXECUTED; Nelson got away with murder!
JEW
To Mr. 7
You have to much rachmunus on goyim.
Or maybee you are a goy.
Or maybe a yid – may god have mercy on your soul
to #7
1rst: stop being a liberal hippy! you dont drink if you cant handle alcohol! its no excuse!
and 2nd: martin Grossman was not out in the street for a week searching for cops to kill! he was scared and stupid and definitely not innocent, no one was saying he only deserved 10 years in prison like this scum bag yemach shmoi!
and 3rd: martin Grossman scored a 77 on an IQ test, a score which borders on mental retardation, so they were saying he should not get the death penalty, not go free!
cc
#7: Limerik Nelson was drunk when he killed Yankel a“h, hy”d, but as I understand it, he never expressed condolence for it. If he could not express regret, then what is he.
Re #7
Martin Grossman was developementally disabled and his sentence was also vastly different than that of the above mentioned criminal who went out of his way to pursue and kill someone who had nothing to do with him. Therefore, there is no rational correlation between the two cases. This comment is a public service to those that need a dose of rational sense (we don’t actually expect humanity). But then, we all know where #7’s comment is coming from..
TO Double standards of justice!
How can u even compare? that is just plain pathetic!! one was on purpose and one to save his own life!!
No comparison watsoeva!!
Zelig
To #7
there is a very big difference between Martin Grossman O.B.M
and Lemrick Nelson. Martin Grossman killed a cop to avoid going to jail, while Lemric Nelson was chasing Yankel Rosenbaum Hashem Yikom Domoi yelling “Kill The Jew” .
Double standards of justice!
To be sure, I am no “liberal.” I would give the death penalty to both Grossman and Nelson.
I just find it ironic that people find every justification in the world to say that the death penalty was wrongly administered when it was a Jew who killed a non-Jew, but no one can find any rational justification when it was a black kid who kills a Jew. Moreover, less than a year ago the Jewish community suddenly became civil libertarian to save a Jewish man on death row, saying that even a murderer should not be put to death, but when it comes to a black Jew-killer, no sort of physical suffering, vigilante violence, death penalty, or murder is beyond the pale.
That is called a double standard of justice. Tell me, would your stance on Grossman have been different if he never expressed remorse or if he raped the cops before killing her? No, it wouldn’t. Because to you, “a Jew is a Jew is a Jew.”
Chaim
Dear Mr. Double standards of justice!,
You may know this you may not. You may agree with this, you may not. Regardless of that the fact remains that Jews and Gentiles are different. Halocha differentiates them tremendously. I understand that American law does not.
That said, I believe that the comments stating Nelson should drop dead was more of a wish then a judgment. If I were Judging these two cases though I would have given Nelson the harsher sentence for many reasons. One of those reasons would seem like a double standared but what you are forgetting is that we are not comparing apples to apples you are comparing Jews and Gentiles.
15# again: to #7/20
im sorry for giving you the benefit of the doubt and thinking that you were liberal and not straight out stupid!
if you would read up you would see that grossman was also “a kid” of 19 (only 3 years older than nelson)at the time and there was of course the fact that he was BORDER LINE MENTALLY RETARDED! and scared!! not out in the streets searching for cops to kill! there is no double standard! no one was saying let him go free just that executing a border line mental retard might be a bit harsh, and i would never condone vigilante violence and i think whoever stabbed nelson should be brought to justice. but am i happy that this lowlife scumbag who premeditated stabbing the next jew he sees 20 times and leaving him in a pool of blood and was out leading a normal life….. is dead? damn straight im happy he is dead!
Milhouse
Yes, of course it’s a double standard. SO WHAT? Since when must there be a single standard for everyone. This is a Lubavitcher site, and Lubavitchers are not ashamed to stand up for the Torah and proclaim that the Torah is our ONLY authority, and our only source of morality. The Torah clearly has different standards for bnei yisroel and nochrim; therefore that is by definition just and right.
We just said havdalah, in which we acknowledged that there are fundamental divisions in the world: between holy and mundane, between light and darkness, between yisroel and the nations, and between shabbos and the week. Contrary to the US Declaration of Independence, we are NOT created equal, and were therefore NOT endowed by our Creator with the same rights and status.
Double standards of justice!
Oh please, Milhouse. Vu shtait in Shulchan Oruch that you are supposed to wish vigilante justice or misah meshuna on Lemrick Nelson? It is one thing to assert Jews and non-Jews are a different quality, it is quite another thing to leap to the conclusion that either Jews should be immune from the death penalty or that a non-Jew automatically deserves to be killed (even Rambam says that a non-Jewish murderer’s punishment is at the hands of their courts).
awacs
“Milhouse wrote:”
Welcome back, Milhouse!
Sure about Grossman?
Martin Grossman didn’t just shoot her.
He beat the officer with a flashlight
about 30 times before he shot her!
Suppose Grossman was a goy and the policewoman Jewish.
What punishment should he get?
Kol Hakavod
I really like Mr. Norman R’s response.
Honesty, I like it.