New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is asking the U.S. State Department to look into the arrest and assault on a Brooklyn resident by policemen in Krakow, Poland. Yaakov Gluck was arrested and beaten in the courtyard of a synagogue in front of witnesses, then taken to the police station where a uniformed officer Sieg Heiled him.
“Regardless of what Mr. Gluck has been charged with, a policeman in Poland giving him a Hail Hitler salute is beyond outrageous!” said Hikind. “This action alone must be looked into and should certainly say something about the nature of these charges and how this man was beaten.”
Yaakov Gluck, age 40, the son of Rabbi Edgar Gluck, a respected rabbi from Brooklyn who is also recognized as the Chief Rabbi of Galicia, is a frequent traveler to Krakow. “There’s a tiny Jewish population that still exists here,” said Gluck, “but Israelis visit and I often bring them around. That’s what happened yesterday – I was showing a visiting couple the Kupa Synagogue when I was arrested.” Gluck said he visits the Kupa Synagogue frequently but on this occasion, the caretaker summoned the police.
“We were in the synagogue’s courtyard when the police arrived and I was thrown down on the concrete, cuffed, and beaten,” said Gluck. Gluck was then taken into custody and detained for 8 hours. While in custody, he said a uniformed policeman taunted him with the Sieg Heil salute.
Although there were witnesses and security camera footage, which Gluck says will exonerate him, Gluck was charged with assaulting a police officer.
“In addition to calling on the State Department to look into this, I will certainly stay on top of this issue and continue to report back on it,” said Hikind.
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Why is the Chief Rabbi of Galicia not on this case?
Unfortunately, the immature donut eaters that work for the NYPD are no better.
that’s terrible.
my family fled poland after the polish animals showed up out of the blue and dragged their family members -men, women and children, out of the house and shot them to death
This is being covered in the Polish media, Google Translate Polish to English:
As established by Wirtualna Polska in an interview with the spokesperson of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Krakow, young insp. Sebastian Gleniu, many elements of intervention and Gluck’s media testimony, are not true. – The intervention took place on July 29 at 16:30. It took place at the request of the synagogue’s employee, who called for a unreasoned patrol with a request to calm the screaming and fussing of two drunken men. One of them was a Pole, the other was a foreigner – the spokesman reports. As he adds, after the identification of the policemen, men began insulting them. At the attempt to prove the Pole, an American got into a struggle with the police, which resulted in a fight. – The officers had to apply means of direct coercion and transport grips. Men insulted them with vulgar words and repeatedly violated the immunity of policemen. Both men were transported to the police station on Szeroka Street. After showing the documents, the Pole was released, the foreigner left around 21:30. We waited for his lawyer because he did not have any identity documents with him. All the time he called the police in English, he refused to cooperate – Wirtualna Polska learns. The man was also going to be too intoxicated to be able to blow in a breathalyzer.
On the question of whether the officers showed Yaakovov Glubek Nazi gestures, the spokesman of the Provincial Police Department strongly denies. – During the incident at the police station there was a whole platoon of policemen, we are interrogating them for the current situation, but all of them strongly deny. No one behaved aggressively towards the detainee. We did not make any Nazi gestures – convinces Sebastian Gleń. On 30 July, the Małopolska police applied to the Jewish kehilla in Krakow for monitoring security, but so far it has not received any recordings.
As unofficially, Wirtualna Polska learns that a detained Polish man who accompanied Gluck had three times been accused of insulting police officers. We will inform you about the further course of the case.
Chief Rabbi? Why are you not on this case?
The Poles are known as virulent antisemites and during WWII fought the Nazis and still had time to kill Jews….
This guy was absolutely drunk and fighting with another drunk at synagogue entrance.
Police was called by Jewish community and lady who works at synagogue, he was violent, disrespectful,swerving at police.
The surveillance video will be released and it was already reviewed.
SHAME!!!
Poles are among the worst Anti-Semites.
Last month the German police beat up a Yid, and now this month the Polish police.
Yidden, stay out of these blood soaked countries, they haven’t changed and never will, what part of that don’t you understand?
To Gosjac661: Where did you get the information in your post? I am not, per se, doubting you, but I would like to know how you know what you posted.
To huju: see comment from sm77.
Some comments about Chief Rabbai being on this case: What could Chief Rabbai do? He has no influence on legislative procedures in Poland. There’s camera footage and soon everything will be clear.
To haemet, luckshun kugel, Joseph, Genya: Kindly please… It’s either your paranoia of anyone non-Jewish instilled through your education or you are beneficiaries of what Norman Finkelstein calls “the Holocaust industry”. Can’t really see any other option.
Side note: If it wasn’t a behavior of a drunk, I am willing to believe it could have been a provocation and the machine of poisonous propaganda has just been started. It has been caused by the recent polish legislation, which punished for the use of “Polish death camps” term. Poland had to withdraw from this law under the pressure of Israel / US. It only showed how weak Poland is at international forum… and as we all know, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”.