NEW YORK (JNS) – New York Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) sent a letter on Friday to the U.S. Department of Justice asking it to investigate what he called New York City’s failure to prosecute anti-Semitic hate crimes.
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“I am respectfully asking the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department to consider investigating New York’s systematic failure to police and prosecute hate crimes and to issue recommendations for reform,” Torres wrote to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
“The federal government can no longer stand by passively as anti-Semitic violence goes unchecked and unpunished in America’s largest city,” the congressman continued.
In his letter, the Bronx native addressed the rising number of anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City, saying, “Just as alarming as the violence itself has been the government’s deafening inaction.”
The letter referenced a report highlighting that 118 adults have been arrested for anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City since 2018, but only one perpetrator has been convicted and imprisoned.
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Could it be because it doesn’t fit the democrats narrative of white supremacists, instead the attackers are all pocs.
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Every crime should be prosecuted as all crime is a civil rights violation. I have a civil right to walk unencumbered along a street and not be impeded by bicyclists or scooter drivers. I have a civil right to safely cross a street and not have to walk around a distracted driver who stopped in the middle of the crosswalk. I have a civil right to not inhale secondhand smoke from cigarette, cigar or marijuana smokers. I have a civil right not to be accosted by half-naked individuals for money. I have a civil right not be accosted by civil servants, who supposedly work for me, to vote for them perusing their expensive, glossy, literature. It’s not the end of my civil rights but these and other crimes should be prosecuted.
wonder what the root causes are? could it be that someone has been putting out anti-semitic tropes for the past 10 years in the mainstream media? just maybe
“118 adults have been arrested for anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City since 2018, but only one perpetrator has been convicted and imprisoned.”
IIRC that has been recently been debunked by a spokesman for the Brooklyn DA.
Am I the only one who thought that he’s wearing a yarlmaka in the pic?
he is a mishkav zachor