Due to the spate of recent anti-Semitic attacks, including one incident in 770 just last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio paid a visit to 770 and promised to increase funding for security.
By: Anash.org reporter
Due to the spate of recent anti-Semitic attacks, including one incident in 770 just last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio paid a visit to 770 and promised to increase funding for security.
The mayor was accompanied by community activists, including Chanina Sperlin and Eli Cohen, who petitioned for the city to install security cameras.
“We see hate rearing its ugly head here in Brooklyn, and we do not accept it and do not allow it,” de Blasio said in his address to the crowd outside 770. “We are going to make sure there is continued police presence in the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Boro Park…. It is not acceptable, and we will not tolerate it in New York City. The NYPD will find these perpetrators and they will be procecuted.
“As I was in the shul earlier, people were talking to me about all the things we need to do to change the situation. I want to thank everyone I spoke with. They talked to me about police presence, but they also talked about the things we need to do to change the hearts and minds of our young people… to get the hate out of their lives.”
