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Hate crime arrest made in string of vandalized Brooklyn synagogues WABC Share: Emil Benjamin, 39, was arrested on charges of hate crime and burglary, police announced Thursday. Benjamin is suspected vandalizing four different synagogues located at 1694 Ocean Avenue, 2822 Avenue J, 2201 Avenue L and 1720 Avenue J. Police say the graffiti included derogatory phrases. At the synagogue on 1720 Avenue J, Benjamin is accused of illegally entering the synagogue and making graffiti inside before damaging two cabinets and stealing $20. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had directed the state police Hate ...

The vandal is accused of breaking into a synagogue in Midwood, damaging two cabinets and stealing $20. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has directed the state police Hate Crimes Task Force to assist the NYPD in the investigation.

The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating after a woman was pummeled by six people who hurled anti-Asian comments at her during an argument about masks on a Manhattan subway train, police said.

Some New York police officers, even those who respond to cases of antisemitic graffiti in Orthodox swaths of Brooklyn, don’t seem to know how to spell “swastika” or “yarmulke.” Surveillance cameras, even those in the subway, cannot always be relied upon to capture vandals who paint or carve hateful messages. And police officers frequently either fail to inform victims about their rights to seek compensation from the state, as is required by law, or fill out the related forms inaccurately. These are some of the things we learned combing through more than 1,800 pages of New York Polic...

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