Crown Heights Gets Angry and Ugly
May 19, 2008
Gothamist - May 17, 2008
Somehow, race relations in Crown Heights, Brooklyn have taken a huge hop, skip, and a jump back to the 1980s, when tensions between African Americans and the Jewish community kept the city on tenterhooks. In recent weeks, attacks on young people, both black and Jewish, have driven people to protest in the streets. The Post headlines its article on a neighborhood protest "Jewish Blood Is Not Cheap," echoing the sentiment of one of approximately 300 protestors calling for justice after a 16-year-old young man was beaten and robbed yesterday.
Alon Sherman was smashed in the head while riding his bike early Friday morning. He was knocked unconscious and robbed of his wallet,
New York Daily News - May 17, 2008
BY DORIAN BLOCK and ALISON GENDAR Police have declared Yitzhak Shuchat a 'person of interest' in a suspected bias attack in Crown Heights,
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - May 16, 2008
by Raanan Geberer (edit@brooklyneagle.net), published online 05-16-2008 CROWN HEIGHTS – It was nowhere near the level of the violent 1991 ethnic clashes in
New York Times Blogs - May 16, 2008
By Annie Correal A crowd of more than 300 Hasidic Jewish residents began a protest in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Friday afternoon to express anger over the
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