Update from NYPD Inspector Richie Taylor, Commanding Officer of NYPD Community Affairs.
The NYPD and the Mayor’s Office just hosted a Zoom call with Jewish community leaders regarding the planned anti-Israel protest scheduled for tomorrow on Shabbos afternoon on Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway.
NYPD Police Commissioner Edward Caban stated strongly that there are no credible threats to the Jewish community or to any community of New York City. The NYPD urges all in the Jewish community to go about their regular business this Shabbos but as always, remain vigilant and if you see something suspicious call 911 or the NYPD Intelligence & Counterterrorism Tip Line at 1-888-NYC-SAFE.
Jewish Community Leaders are urging community members NOT TO go to this area to engage with any of the protestors.
Officials in the meeting included Police Commissioner Edward Caban, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, Senior Advisor to Mayor Eric Adams Joel Eisdorfer, Chief of Patrol John Chell, Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner, Chief of Intelligence & Counterterrorism John Hart, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, Assistant Commissioner Kaz Daughtry, and Inspector Richie Taylor who moderated the meeting.
Community leaders on the calls included Hatzolah CEO Rabbi Yechiel Kalish, NYPD Clergy Liaison Yehuda Eckstein, NYPD Clergy Liaison David Heskiel, Crown Heights Shomrim Coordinator Gadi Hershkop, Flatbush Shomrim Coordinators Bob Moskowitz, Tzvi Weill & Naftali Rosenberg, Boro Park Shomrim Coordinators Moti Katz and Motty Brenner, Williamsburg Shomrim Coordinators Yanky Itzkowitz and Asher Markowitz, and Far Rockaway Queens Shomrim Coordinator Asher Klein, Crown Heights Jewish Children’s Museum Founder and Community Leader Devorah Halberstam, Crown Heights Jewish Community Council Executive Vice-President Rabbi Chanina Sperlin, Crown Heights Jewish Community Council Executive Director Rabbi Eli Cohen and Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition Chairman Josh Mehlman.
The NYPD and Yeshiva World News wishes the entire Jewish community a beautiful and peaceful Shabbos. Shabbat Shalom.
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If the KKK were to march into an African American neighborhood demanding the right to lynch blacks whose existence offends them, what would the police do? Compare that to when mobs, under police protection and with support of prominent Democratic politicians, demand the right to march into Jewish areas, supporting a “right” to murder Jews.
The reality is that in the “blue” states, where most Orthodox Jews live, it is legitimate to ask if we can still rely on the government for security, and to consider the implications if the answer is in the negative.