The following is a statement from City Council Candidate Ari Kagan Condemning Hate Crime in Brighton Beach:
�Last night, an individual drew a swastika on the front door of the Congregation of New Brighton Jewish Center, located at 184 Brighton 11th Street. This is a sad reminder that, unfortunately, there are still hateful individuals in our community, who will stop at nothing to intimidate us. As a community of hardworking families and seniors, our strength comes from our diversity. For this to happen in Brighton Beach – a neighborhood my family, and so many other families came to from the former Soviet Union to escape religious persecution, is particularly outrageous and despicable.�
�The individual who committed this vile act of vandalism has committed a serious crime. I am confident that the NYPD�s Hate Crimes Unit will find whoever is responsible, and that District Attorney Hynes will prosecute this person to the fullest extent of the law. As a community, we cannot � and will not � be intimidated. I condemn this hate crime and urge the public to assist the police in finding those responsible.�
(YWN NYC Newsdesk)
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Kagan knows a hate crime when he sees one. He was trained in committing them in KGB University in Russia!! What a joke this Stalinist or Leninist (no-one could ever get an answer to which version of soviet thought he believed in, as he admits to not being a refusnik or dissident)is running for political office in USA!!