Below is a letter from Crown Heights Jewish Council to Brooklyn DA About Recent Attacks Against Jews In Crown Heights:

Deputy Inspector Norman L. Grandstaff
Commanding Officer, 71st Precinct
421 Empire Boulevard
Brooklyn, NY, 11225‐3217

Dear Inspector Grandstaff,

Over the past week, three significant attacks were perpetrated against Jews in Crown Heights. This is an alarming trend that bears many similarities to attacks of the past—only more brazen and more violent.

We are deeply concerned by the potential for escalation.

In the first incident, at 2:20pm on Thursday, May 5th, a school bus clearly identified as belonging to a Jewish school serving pre‐K students was attacked on Eastern Parkway, on the service road between Albany and Kingston Avenues.

On Friday, May 6th, a Yeshiva student was attacked at the same time on the same block by a group of 10 or so black teens who crossed over from the north side of the parkway. After stoning the student with rocks and bricks and assaulting him with a metal rod, the victim cornered the primary assailant who managed to attack him once more before being arrested by police.

With these two attacks, we were immediately reminded of a string of incidents perpetrated in the same area in the past (See enclosed letter). But before we had a chance to absorb the shock, a third, more vicious, attack was perpetrated: yesterday, a Jewish school bus parked in front a Jewish school in Crown Heights was set ablaze.

These are not isolated events. Attacks of this nature can either be decisively curtailed by law enforcement or defiantly intensified by delinquents. Teenagers who get away with arson on an empty school bus can be emboldened to firebomb a bus full of Jewish kids, Heaven forbid.

We call on the NYPD and the Brooklyn DA to be proactive and vigilant so that there can be no recurrence and no escalation.

Barry Sugar

PS: We are especially wary in light of the failures of law enforcement in the recent incidents at Medgar Evers College (See enclosed letter): 1. the failure of the Brooklyn DA’s office to prosecute the attack against a Jewish student for what it truly was, a bias crime, and 2. the failure of the NYPD to take serious action for the racist graffiti found on school property.

CC: Mayor of the city of New York, Bill de Blasio; New York City Police Commissioner, William J. Bratton; Assistant Chief Steven M.
Powers, Commanding Officer Patrol Borough Brooklyn South; Deputy Chief Michael J. Osgood, Commanding Officer NYPD Hate
Crimes; Deputy Inspector Eddie Lott, Commanding Officer 77th Precinct; Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney Kings County.

(Source: Onlysimchas)