STATEMENT BY BOROUGH PRESIDENT ON THE ARREST OF VANDAL WHO ALLEGEDLY SPRAY-PAINTED SWASTIKAS AND OTHER PROFANITIES AT MARINE PARK CHURCH
“I want to commend the New York City Police Department, the
NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force and Brooklyn South Commanding
Officer Chief Joseph Fox for all of their hard work culminating
in the arrest today of a man in connection with the incident last
September at the Good Shepard Church in Marine Park.
“To desecrate a house of worship with these horrible messages
of hate is downright despicable and will never be tolerated in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn has been and will always be united in our efforts to stamp
out any hint of religious or ethnic intolerance. The person suspected
of this cowardly crime is certainly in need of the Lord’s
help.
“During the past several months, I have been monitoring the
investigation of the Hate Crime Task Force into the spray-painting
of swastikas on cars in southern Brooklyn, and I am confident that
the NYPD will apprehend the person(s) responsible for these horrible
crimes.”