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11-year-old facing hate crime charges for burning bus
2016-05-10 07:34:47 Post No. 43710
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11-year-old facing hate crime charges for burning bus
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2016-05-10 07:34:47
Post No. 43710
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>An 11-year-old African-American boy is being charged with a hate crime in connection with a fire which was lit on a Jewish school bus in Brooklyn. The bus had been parked in front of the Beth Rivkah Hebrew School for girls when a group of children set fire to it.
>A surveillance tape released by CrownHeights.info found that a approximately seven children had been involved with the arson incident on Sunday. The video shows several children boarding the bus – which had been left open and unattended – with pieces of cardboard in hand. The kids rush out as flames appear in the front of the bus.
>So far, only an 11-year-old boy has been arrested in relation to the crime. He is currently facing hate crime charges, despite the lack of Jewish writing on the bus. He has been charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime and arson as a hate crime. The attack took place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn – an area notorious for its history of tension between the Black community and the Jewish community.
>Chani Klein, a parent at Beth Rivkah, told the New York Daily News, “It’s terrible,” and added, "I don't know why they would do that. Maybe they were just bored, or maybe it really was about hate. Either way they blew up a bus. They need help."
>No one was injured in the fire, but residents are concerned about what they feel is growing hostility between Crown Heights’ Hasidic residents and the black population. One Crown Heights man, Chaim Rosenstein, told the Daily News “It's very sad that there was just enough mischief and possibly bias and hate pent up inside an 11-year-old,” adding "People are very shocked. They're concerned.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/342439-brooklyn-bus-yeshiva-burned-crime
