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| נשלח ב-6/4/2006 22:38 |
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Jason Horowitz is hitting the pavement in Borough Park today.
Here is his report:
In the storefront Yidel's Grocery on 12th Avenue between 48th and 50th streets in Borough Park,
there's a photo of a guy wearing a varsity jacket with a letter on it, no yarmulke, and he's about to light a bunch of posters on fire. All of these 13- and 14-year-old Orthodox kids are circled around him, eyes agog, looking pretty psyched.
In the neighborhood, the photo, and the amateur video from which it's taken, are in high demand. The idea is that opportunistic criminals who aren't orthodox Jews are responsible for much of the mayhem on Tuesday night.
Boro Park councilman Simcha Felder told The Politicker: "It is irrelevant to me." It was "inexcusable" that young people in his neighborhood watched and egged on the riot.
"I think there are a number of tapes floating around now," he said. But he also said he thought it unlikely they'd surface. Even if they do show non-Jews lighting fires at the riot, they also show large groups of young Orthodox men comporting themselves in a generally ungentlemanly manner
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 00:11 |
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RabbiFreilich. you need take a step back and pinch yourself awake.
Yes, I am referring to your appearance on 1010 WINS.
Is now the time to lap up to the police?
How dare you go out to the media to defend Sgt. Russo and blame our children for the Tuesday night melee.
You are defending the indefensible and shifting the blame to the community as if we instigated riots akin to those in Crown Heights of years ago.
You are guilty of reinforcing the scornful attitude that permeates the 66th precinct and the insensitivity that they are displaying to our community.
Enough already!
All you politicians please stop speaking in our name and cut the pandering!
The cost the community pays as a whole, far outweighs the pitiful benefits in favorable treatment your influence provides.
We the larger community (the regular joes) are no longer willing to pay the price for your political connections.
There is no serious crime in our precinct, (to wit the cops have been off the streets of BP all day Wednesday and the crime hasn't skyrocketed) yet the cops are very high profile and in our face, constantly quacking their sirens yelling at us on their loudspeakers speeding down the streets without regard to our safety.
They display blatant disrespect, stopping their squad cars to talk to each other in middle of the street crippling traffic on our avenues, daring us to beep our horns. They never pull out of the traffic lanes while writing summonses, inconveniencing all the motorists behind them. They are constantly passing red lights in non emergency situations and they are always driving while talking on their cellphones.
Perhaps the well connected have some benefits from the cops and manage to obtain some favors from the precinct. However it comes at the expense of the average community resident and is just not worth the price.
Furthermore due to the lack of political pressure the excessive and selective enforcement of nuisance violations has grown so blatant that the cops are just simply ticketing the truly innocent and perjuring themselves in traffic court if need be.
The unusually selective parking ticket enforcement has gotten out of hand the agents are zealots anxious to fill their productivity goals, (there are no quotas) they run across two three lanes of traffic to block in motorists who are legally discharging passengers at bus stop, in the process they are endangering themselves and the drivers who must hit their brakes to avoid them.
In fact two months ago a TD agent in an official car did cause an accident while trying to block somebody in to a bus stop he knocked a delivery boy off a bike at 13th Avenue and 50th Street. He blamed the Jewish driver and almost got him arrested and into serious trouble. Luckily this occurred within range of a security camera and the PD Sergeant went to view it because the shopkeeper called his attention to the fact that a video tape was available.
The six squad cars that responded disappeared into thin air and the Jewish driver was spared much anguish and legal fees.
However the Traffic Agent who lied to cover himself at the Jew's expense is still preying upon the innocent and his next victim may not be so lucky.
In the face of some properly applied pressure the precinct will surely come around but you our dear representatives are either to timid or to selfish to apply that pressure for the benefit of the faceless masses, where you can expect nothing tangible in return.
There are many details about the incident that occurred which must be properly investigated. However there are some simple and clear facts which are not in question.
The fact is Sergeant Russo the arresting officer, brutalized and manhandled an elderly gentleman on 16th Ave in broad daylight, due to a perceived slight to his ego. He took umbrage that Mr. Shick did not yield the right-of-way to his squad car, while he had the turret lights on.
The cell phone issue was secondary……. after all we all know, sergeants are not assigned to issue tickets for moving violations and they don't volunteer for it either.
Should Mr. Shick have suffered a fatal heart attack G-D as he was being thrown around like a rag doll, would you still defend this Anti-Semite, Sergeant Russo?
Sorry, but if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck………………
Sixty years ago when the Nazis invaded Poland and Hungary they depended on the Judenrat to implement the confiscation of Jewish property and the ghetto confinement of the Jewish population. Their complicity did not earn them a reprieve. In the end they were placed aboard the last cattle car leaving to Auschwitz.
I implore you Jewish politicians and public figures do not be their lackeys, do not serve as the Judenrat of 2006. Call them on the carpet and in the end they will respect you even more and your influence will truly grow.
Our teenagers must certainly be admonished………. in Yeshivah and at home not in the media.
On the other hand, the cops only get the message one way, in the public forum and under media scrutiny.
There is no acceptable excuse for slurring Jews by any public official, the more decorated and veteran the official the higher the standard we shall apply.
Joseph Esposito is damaged goods!
In a fit of anger, he revealed his true thoughts and emotions about the Jews.
Sure he has a lot of history with the community, he used the 66th precinct to build and further his career and personal ambition. Yet look how fast it all unraveled…… a little heat just melted his mask off and the ugly face of an Anti Semite was revealed.
Community relations with the Police are vital………..not for your political photo-ops, only to further the public good. When the public interest is sacrificed on the altar of community relations with the police, we are better off having no connections with them at all.
History is replete with Jews who had longtime business associates, servants and employees, who sold them out at the earliest opportunity after decades of Jewish benevolence.
Once an individual has served notice to our community, what he really thinks about us. We have to be very foolish not to take heed while there is still time.
It is incumbent on you, public figures, to implement a changing of the guard at the 66th precinct and if it is within your power make sure Joseph Esposito puts in his retirement papers this week
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 00:37 |
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Someone with relations to one of our local Jewish politicians told me that not to long ago he was in the car with one of the politicians and a police officer stopped him for not wearing a seatbelt, after identifying themselves, the police officer did let him go.
And this is going on daily; I wonder if that's the law if you are a politician you don't have to follow the law.
Maybe I am in the wrong business
תוקן על ידי - y123y123 - 07/04/2006 0:40:53
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 00:51 |
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Joseph Esposito has called us F+++Jews what excuse is it that he was under pressure, and because he was under pressure he does not have to apologize.
The Jewish community of Boro Park are demanding an apology from Joseph Esposito, and if you don't know how to apologize I guess this job is not for you.
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 01:06 |
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Our local Jewish politicians had spoken out in public and had blamed that the fires in Boro Park was set by our teenagers who are off from school, what would they say to this picture
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 01:48 |
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Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY - There are some photos floating around in the community where a guy wearing a varsity jacket with a letter on it, and has no yarmulke, and he's about to light a bunch of posters on fire, and all of these 13- and 14-year-old Orthodox kids are circled around him, eyes agog, looking pretty psyched.
In the neighborhood, the photo, and the amateur video from which it's taken, are in high demand. The idea is that opportunistic criminals who aren't orthodox Jews are responsible for much of the mayhem on Tuesday night.
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 01:55 |
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Please Email and Forward To Everyone U Know Friends And Family
Please Email Your Support To Councilman Simcha Felder. One Of The Only Real And True People Who Took The Courage To Stand Up and Protest The Brutal Response From The NYPD And Their High Ranking Officials. Enough With The "So Called" And "Self Made" Community Leaders Who Stood And watched as 'Yungeleit And Buchirim' Were Pushed And Kicked To The Ground Stepped On Treated Like Animals, Criminals And Drug Dealers He Needs To Show
"CITI HALL" And The "NYPD" That He Has Our Support And Our Backing.
And He Will Not Permit Such Action To Take Place Again....
Tell Him What He Saw On The Street was A "Reaction Not Action"
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 02:02 |
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New York, NY - Mayor Asks CCRB To Investigate The Chief of NYPD And Cops In Borough Park
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 18:18 |
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It didn't take two days 4 Hikind and Felder to sell us out, what a wasted oppurtunity to really do something for the community!
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 19:36 |
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Questioned for the mayor of New York
If I go on the Street and I see a police arrest a 75 year old man which I have respect for him, and they handle him like a dog, what should I do.
Don't tell me that I should call 311 for an investigation, because what ever the police are going to say you going to believe them and not me
Should I at least let the police know that it's not appropriate to do that, or I am not allowed to talk to them because they are God's greatest gift
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| נשלח ב-7/4/2006 21:04 |
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By the way what's the whole point of an investigation, the mayor himself said already that he does not see that the police or police commissioner did anything wrong,(I guess they are close friends)
I would like to see an investigation with people from our community involved (not our politicians), to make sure that the right investigation takes place
In the mayor's speech he only accused us for demonstrating, he did not accused the police commissioner for using dirty language, I think this itself needs a complete investigation
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| נשלח ב-9/4/2006 17:49 |
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Should Chief Esposito Be Disciplined
A New York media news outlet has launched a "Snap Poll" feature, which allowed subscribers in New York City to use their remote control to answer poll questions.
The results was
Yes 21.0%
No 76.0%
Undecided 2.0%
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| נשלח ב-9/4/2006 17:51 |
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The Young and the Restless Opinion Columnist
THE Orthodox Jews of Borough Park in Brooklyn lead a double life. They are at once an insular community, deliberately isolated from what many see as the corrupting force of the surrounding culture, and an integral and recognizable part of New York. That duality was on display last Tuesday, when protests erupted after an encounter between police officers and an Orthodox Jew who was stopped for talking on his cellphone while driving.
Of all the Jews in Brooklyn, about 37 percent call themselves Orthodox, and of all the neighborhoods in Brooklyn, none is a better known Orthodox heartland than Borough Park (or, as the locals spell it, Boro Park). The neighborhood, which took on a suburban character in the 1920's when rows of houses were built on tree-lined streets, has been transformed over the last 40 years from "suburb to shtetl," as the sociologist Egon Mayer put it.
The Hasidim and other ultra-Orthodox Jews make up a significant proportion of what seems to many outsiders an extraordinarily closed society, with its Yiddish vernacular and expressive Jewishness. which has more than 110 yeshivas, 240 synagogues and many Jewish specialty shops, and where the sexes are segregated to the greatest extent possible, they often you could feel that you are visiting another country.
Community leaders and most of the adults in the enclave know that they depend on the police to make their island in the city secure. They value their officers — even if they are certain that many have no understanding of the culture and society they protect. This is a profound change for a group that includes a great many children of Holocaust survivors as well as survivors themselves; in their collective memory, the police were often a part of the problem rather than a source of security. It is not surprising, therefore, that many of these older people, including the 75-year-old man at the center of the incident, were unwilling to condemn the police unequivocally.
Young people, born and raised in New York, were the ones who caused most of the hubbub last week, and for all the efforts their elders have made to insulate them from the surrounding culture, they've absorbed it. When they began yelling, "No justice, no peace," they were not quoting the Hebrew prophets or the Torah; they were echoing their African-American neighbors in the borough, who abhor what they perceive as disrespect from the police.
These young Orthodox Jews have learned how a beleaguered and threatened minority in this city can respond when it wants to rein in the police or the powerful. This Passover season, as the Jewish people celebrate their liberation from slavery, these youngsters wanted to express their liberation from what they saw as another too-powerful arm of tyranny — even if the problem was nothing more than a misunderstanding, rather than a return to the bondage of Egypt.
Their rabbis and elders must surely be concerned about this turn of events. More threatening than the incident with the police is the possibility that their children, the products of so much concern and education — the future of their community — may have become too much like the other New York, the one outside the enclave.
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Jason Horowitz is hitting the pavement in Borough Park today.
Here is his report:
In the storefront Yidel's Grocery on 12th Avenue between 48th and 50th streets in Borough Park,
there's a photo of a guy wearing a varsity jacket with a letter on it, no yarmulke, and he's about to light a bunch of posters on fire. All of these 13- and 14-year-old Orthodox kids are circled around him, eyes agog, looking pretty psyched.
In the neighborhood, the photo, and the amateur video from which it's taken, are in high demand. The idea is that opportunistic criminals who aren't orthodox Jews are responsible for much of the mayhem on Tuesday night.
Boro Park councilman Simcha Felder told The Politicker: "It is irrelevant to me." It was "inexcusable" that young people in his neighborhood watched and egged on the riot.
"I think there are a number of tapes floating around now," he said. But he also said he thought it unlikely they'd surface. Even if they do show non-Jews lighting fires at the riot, they also show large groups of young Orthodox men comporting themselves in a generally ungentlemanly manner