AP: Bus Arson Evokes Riots of 1991

An Associated Press editorial says that the burning of a Jewish school bus by African-American children evokes the tensions that prevailed in Crown Heights during the infamous riots that plagued the community in the summer of 1991.

From the Associated Press:

For days, the charred school bus sat in front of a Jewish girls’ school in Brooklyn, its ruined hulk posing a troubling question: Has the quarter-century of peace between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights begun to fray?

Twenty five years ago this August, the neighborhood’s black residents exploded into days of rioting after a 7-year-old boy, the son of Guyanese immigrants, was accidentally struck and killed by a car in the motorcade of the leader of the Lubavitcher sect. A rabbinical student was stabbed and died. Many people were beaten. Vehicles were flipped and burned.

Those tensions were supposed to have melted away a long time ago, but last Sunday afternoon a group of boys, all black, went aboard an unlocked bus parked in front of the Bnos Chomesh Academy, set fire to the seats and ran. Flames consumed the bus in minutes.

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10 Comments

  • CH'er

    I speak from anger frustration that causes untrusted community leader. the Community Council. Rabbis, Lay-Leaders etc,,,,,,

    Guys why should we care about you, your salaries, your hype, your self indulgent political gain,, where are you guys, why are you silent,,

    who are you protecting, who are you scared of, and who are you over looking,

    I am sick of this BS, every time we look up to any one of you Phonies I cringe with disgust and nausea do I write these words..

    your all BS’ers

  • X shmira Zeidy....

    stupid correlation…

    this is just bored and stupid unsupervised and more than likely one parent (not that its much different..) home….kids playing around…

    I did same in front of Zal bachurim & USA shluchim when i was a kid in europe…

    MBA

  • ts3241

    now that you say it, I totally agree.
    this is media. if its truth and its not said, then someone better bring it to the surface, because the media will only do what brings them power and money. (same thing pretty much)

  • Grateful we left

    Either leave Crown Heights of get a gun. We did both. Not worth living there.

    • rebbe's schuna

      ok well I will be glad to take your place. Being close to the makom Torah is worth giving up conveniences

  • charge the parents.

    THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS MAKE THE PARENTS OF THE 12-14 YEAR OLD ARSONISTS PAY FOR THE SCHOOL BUS.
    iF THIS IS THE WAY THEY RAISED THEIR KIDS LET THEM FEEL IT IN THEIR POCKET.
    THE OWNER OF THE SCHOOLBUS HAS LOST HIS JOB FOR NO DECENT REASON AT ALL!!!
    I DREAD TO THINK WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF IT WAS JUST THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
    OF COURSE ALL THE LIBERAL MEDIA AND ALL THE JEWISH LIEBERALS WOULD BE ALL OVER YELLING AND SCREAMING.
    NOW THERE IS A SICKENING SILENCE.

  • Egregious!

    Yes “kids do foolish things”, but it’s no coincidence they torched a Jewish-run bus. It’s also no coincidence that all the local violence is black on white/Jewish.

  • Dear Associated Press. . . .

    Didn’t you hear? It’s officially not a hate crime.So there’s no story here.

    What do you think, AP, that the Jews of Crown Heights are going to riot in the streets?

    I think the writer of this AP article must be having a slow news day, so there was a decision to try to “stir the pot.”

    Pathetic!

  • Miriam Levy

    Why is it never a hate crime when the blacks attack, steal and do horrific things to Jewish people ?