5:00PM EST: Just two weeks after more than 200 Jewish graves were vandalized at the Washington Cemetery in Flatbush, numerous headstones were once again vandalized – this time by the NYC Sanitation Department.
As YWN had reported earlier Monday morning, the street on Bay Parkway just west of McDonald Avenue is being used as a snow-melting facility by the NYC Sanitation Department. Huge mountains of snow have been placed on the street, and bulldozers are carrying them into the snow melting machine.
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Vandalism is a willful or malicious destruction or defacement of public or private property (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The sanitation department’s irresponsible actions caused damage– not vandalism.
In American law the word “malicious” means committed by reckless behavior. This would certainly seem to qualify.
Actually, it doesn’t! Malicious connotes a desire to cause harm or spite. So too, the legal term malice involves an intention to cause harm. I doubt you could cite a source to substantiate your claim.
People need to lose their jobs over this.
Get your act together, YWN. People rely on you to report the news, not spin it to make it look like the whole world is out to get us. Don’t connect a hate crime with the stupidity of some sanitation workers. I’m sure the city will repair the damage to the headstones and the fence. Maybe the sanitation workers can be given a brief physics lesson.
Otherwise, please, for everyone’s sake, be good journalists and give us the news as it is. No one wants to read adolescent exaggerations and misinterpretations of events just so the news can be more “exciting” and we can all be reminded that we’re in galus. Save it for when we’re really being targeted.
Incompetence, poor planning, stupidity, OK. Vandalism? Who writes these stories.