Reply To: Four shuls attacked in the Bronx over the weekend

The Daily News reported Burnette was hit with 42 charges, including burglary as a hate crime and criminal trespass as a hate crime for attacks on four synagogues and a Jewish community center, during which he allegedly smashed windows and doused religious books in hand sanitizer.

The suspect’s mother, Sharon Burnette, told the Daily News on Monday she’s surprised by the allegations. “My son is a very good boy,” she said. “He always has been. He’s been one of my best children.”

“I think this is an area that we definitely should look at again because hate crimes are such a profound challenge,” de Blasio said. “But the important thing for us to do right now is to work within the law as intensely and effectively as possible to protect people.”

I get that NYC prisons constitute cruel and unusual punishment. But the fact that this guy could get a lawyer to have a second Judge lift his bail requirement show us that de Blasio’s NY is more interested in protecting criminals. The meshuganah bail law will only encourage more attacks since the risk of any meaningful punishment is minimal.