The Pete Quiñones Show - Pete Reads 'Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America' by Laird Wilcox - Part 5

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

78 MinutesPG-13Pete continues a reading of Laird Wilcox's 1994 book, 'Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America.' He covers the end of chapter 5 and all of chapter 6.Antelope Hill - Promo code "peteq" for 5% off - https://antelopehillpublishing.com/FoxnSons Coffee - Promo code "peter" for 18% off - https://www.foxnsons.com/Pete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

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I want to welcome everyone back to part five of my reading of Crying Wolf, Hate Crime Hoaxes in America by Laird Wilcox. A reminder about Thomas and I doing movie reviews. If you go over to freemen beyond the wall.com forward slash movies, you'll see the links to all the movies we've reviewed. We watch and sort of mystery science theater them, but try to be a little more serious about it and funny sometimes. All right.

This is part five. We're going to finish up chapter five and then get into chapter six. I'm not sure if we can finish chapter six today, but get as much done as we can. All right. Here we go. Of all the possible hate crime, is one would think that an incident in which a man is deliberately set on fire would be impossible to fake.

Yet, such a hoax apparently happened in Loveland, Ohio in September 1993. Rithing in pain with burns over 75% of his body, Milton Metcalf, lay in front of a Loveland bar Tuesday and screamed, I was trying to help them. His payoff, according to police, a cup of gasoline in the face and a match tossed at him. Police were checking the possibility the attack was racially motivated. Metcalf is black. He describes his attackers as white. According to Metcalf 30, he was trying to help two men and a pregnant woman whose pickup truck was at a gas. He went home and got a gas can, had it filled, and brought it to the trio. Metcalf told police that the truck would not start. The men asked him to get a cup of gas to prime the carburetor. When he complied, one of the men poured it on him and the other tossed a lighted match. Matt Calf on fire ran across to Zappa Sports Bar. Bartender Angela Clagsgins said, Angela Claskins said,

we heard a loud bang. It sounded like a gunshot. We looked at the door and there was a great big fireball. He was screaming. They were trying to pour it down my throat. They poured gas on me and set me on fire. Okay, Richard Pryor flashbacks here. Loveland with a population of 9,900, is 97% white and 2% black, according to the 1990 census.

Police and citizens initially speculated on the racial aspect of the crime. A few days later, another story began to emerge. Police had discovered a half-filled gas can behind a Loveland shopping center, and accounts by witnesses cast suspicion on Milton Metcalf's story. Hearing of these developments, the local NACP demanded an investigation. Frank Allison, president of the Cincinnati chapter, said, Think if the victim was white, it would have been handled differently. Finally, the whole story began to come apart.

Police revealed that Metcalf had been convicted in April, 1993, for filing a false police report that he had been abducted by two men with a baby. A detailed police investigation determined that the incident was a hoax concocted by Metcalf. Also, it was learned that the late model Ford pickup Metcalf had described, had no carburetor and could not be primed with gas. Finally, although many people had seen Metcalf in the area of the Clark Station, no one had noticed a truck. Milton Metcalf, critically burned, and the apparent self-inflicted victim of a hoax that backfired subsequently died from his injuries. Hatred and bigotry, it seems, no no boundaries and no limit to viciousness, or so it seemed in May

1993, when 12-year-old Jake Thompson, a black fifth grader, reported that no less than 10 and Hispanic boys, aged 10 to 13, had beaten him in the ground, beaten him to the ground, pushed his head inside a toilet and flushed it, and then wrote, ends must die on a boy's restroom wall at Ensignal Elementary School in Santa Clara, California. I don't know. Swirley and then, you know, end must die. Yeah, I wouldn't have bought this one from the start. The case was originally handled by skeptical school officials who were cautious about buying the improbable story.

Police learned of the incident a few weeks later while visiting the school on another matter and opened a case. The case attracted the attention of a sympathetic news media who, it is charged, blew the case way out of proportion in civil rights groups who held for the boy's head, send them a message was the slogan as powerful interest groups push for prosecution of the youngsters and to demand that the indictments of the youngest defendants ever to go on trial for felony hate crimes, forcing many of their parents to hire attorneys to represent the children and others to rely on understaffed and underfinanced public defenders.

If convicted, the children could be sentenced to a draconian eight years in California youth authority custody. I'm surprised in trying to send them to friggin' San Quentin. A Kafka-esque aura to the case began to emerge as discrepancies and inconsistencies developed, including the date of the hate crime, which changed back and forth. Evidence appeared that cast doubt upon Jake Thompson's story.

According to news reports, at a hearing held last August, a school monitor testified that when he saw Jake after the alleged assault, he showed no signs of bruising or injury. As the case progressed, the judge began dismissing defendants as the evidence for their participation evaporated.

Hugh Roberts, attorney for an alleged, 11-year-old defendant who was released in the case said, this is a terribly overcharged case made more difficult by community and media response. Deputy District Attorney Mark Buller admitted that as the cases evolved, we know we know information now that we didn't know then. Albi Jekimowitz, attorney for a 12-year-old Hispanic boy charged in the case, claimed that Buller was pushing the case because of political and social pressure. When the case came to trial, the San Jose Mercury reported,

recanting his original story to police, a boy testified in court Wednesday that the alleged beating of a black classmate was a hoax. Instead, the seventh grader said Jake Thompson planned the whole incident shortly after school began that day, then later ripped his own shirt and wet his hair to make it appear as if he had been beaten. The boy told how Jake had asked him to lie and repeatedly called his house to make sure their stories matched. On the witness stand Tuesday and Wednesday, two of the prosecution's witnesses changed their stories and contradicted Jake's account of the May 4th incident. As Jake Thompson's story fell apart, Judge Paul R. Teal had no choice but to acquit the remaining four defendants. This, however, was not the end of the story. There was still a possibility for money to be made.

In November 1993, attorneys for Jake Thompson filed a $3 million civil suit against Morgan Hill Unified School District, charging that they were negligent and failed to supervise and control the conduct of students. In Chicago, a black man who had told police of an attack by a white motorcycle gang in May 1985 recanted parts of his stories after witnesses disputed his assertion that he had been beaten with chains by gang members. According to witnesses, Otis Jackson's car was overturned by people whom Jackson had endangered by driving recklessly. Jackson 25 also withdrew claims that the whites had harassed him at a stoplight, that a friend was in the car with him, and that the white gang had stolen $300. Jackson initially said the gang members had pushed a Molotov cocktail through a hole in the rear

window. Witnesses contradicted Jackson saying that there was no motorcycle gang involved in the incident. According to media reports, witnesses have accused Jackson of trying to run down people on pedestrian walkways before his car hit a tree. A crowd, became angry after Jackson had driven in reverse at speeds of 40 miles an hour and overturned the car after he had run off the walkways. The car exploded because the motor was running. Jackson had told police he was driving in response to escape the motor's motorcyclists. He explained, I changed my story to them because I was high. I don't know why. I gave some bad information. I was high. Jackson had been fired from his security job after it was learned that

he was a convicted felon awaiting trial on charges of possessing two loaded handguns. one of which was stolen in a burglary. Hoaxes often take bizarre forms. In 1988, 50-year-old Gary A. Tucker stirred law enforcement officials with a deathbed confession that he had taken part in a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young black girls. Media sources reported, a Justice Department official in Washington said the local United States Attorney's Office and the FBI in Alabama had sent very optimistic reports to Washington

indicating that Mr. Tucker might well be telling the truth. According to federal officials, Tucker really knew his dates and places and knew the players in the bombing. Later, David Barber, Jefferson County District Attorney, said that Tucker was a confessor to a crime he did not commit. Investigated as noted that Tucker didn't even know the location of the church and gave three different descriptions of the car which he was driving. Barber and Frank Donaldson, U.S. Attorney for Northern Alabama, said their only explanation for the hoax was Tucker's physical and mental condition. Tucker was a cancer patient at the VA hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at the time of his confession. Tucker's relatives said that he had been diagnosed several years earlier as a paranoid

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Insurance fraud has been the motive for more than one hate crime hoax. In March 1991, a Fayetteville, Georgia black couple was arrested in charge with fraud by arson, having spray-painted racial slurs on the interior walls before setting their $400,000 home on fire. White racists were blamed. Marcellus and Sandra Jackson were soon arrested and held on $350,000 bond. They had been behind in their mortgage payments and faced. foreclosure. Their real estate agent Lynn Mitchell was also arrested as a co-conspirator.

According to Sheriff Randall Johnson, the fire was Jackson's third attempt in a month to burn the house down. Jeez. Can't even do that right. Sheriff's Captain Bruce Jordan said, by the second fire, we were considering the possibility that it was not racially motivated and may have been a financial conspiracy. Nine months later, on December 6, 1991, Marcellus Jackson was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Witnesses said that Jackson set the fire himself to collect insurance on the house. They also testified the Sandra Jackson, real estate agent Lynn Mitchell, and neighbor Cesar Gators conspired to defraud the mortgage company that financed Jackson's house.

These just go on and on and on. And, you know, as a reminder, you could say, oh, but these are the exceptions. Now, this is the rule. Where are the real ones? Where are the real ones? When something like this happens and it happens for real, it's so far out of the ordinary. The home of Larry Williams and Patricia Anderson, a black couple in Arvada, Colorado, was systematically ransacked November 29, 1990, and 29 swastikas were drawn with a felt marker on the walls. for a black couple.

Okay. The police report noted that the ransacking had been done in an unusually neat, careful manner. Nothing was broken and nothing was missing, William speculated. I guess they were trying to drive home a message that they don't want us in this neighborhood. We are the only blacks here. Exactly two weeks later, Williams and Anderson return home to find their home on fire and their blue thunderbird missing from the garage. police reported that the fire had been deliberately set in four places.

The house sustained mostly smoke damage. A care warned and dazed Williams said, I just can't believe this. The FBI entered the case requesting a copy of the earlier police report. Police report. Arvada Police, Lieutenant Jeff Walker, said, It's routine for them to look into ethnic hate crimes like this. We want to make it perfectly clear that we are not going to tolerate a situation

where a family is singled out and treated this way. It's because it doesn't happen. Two days after the fire, the Rocky Mountain News at Denver Daily reported that Williams and Anderson had been deluge with an outpouring of sympathy of sympathy. Police Sergeant Merle Westling of the Arvada Police Department said, We've had calls from people wanting to donate clothing, gifts, money to help rebuild the house. I'm even told that there's a con there was a contractor over there this morning who said he'd donate some time to get the place straightened up. The Thunderbird was soon located in Denver. Police reported that someone had put a rock on the gas pedal and let it run into a parked dump truck. Police fingerprinted the car for clues. Arvada police chief Pat Alstrom said that the investigation is high priority, as is any crime with a possible racial and ethnic hatred motive. Why is that different than any other crime?

Why? Why? Because of World War II? That's the only reason. You all realize that, right? That's the only reason. Hate crime. Hatred motive. Racial. Yeah.

And investigate they did. Police learned that the family was in severe financial straits and that the house was insured. Moreover, police were suspicious from the outset when inconsistencies developed in their account of the incidents. Within a few days, Patricia Anderson was arrested, along with Lee Andrew Williams, brother of Larry Williams, who was not charged in the case. case. Lee Williams and Anderson subsequently entered guilty pleas. In May 1991, Lee Williams was given 10 years for one count of first-degree arson. Patricia Anderson received five years probation for attempted theft and false reporting. In July 1999, an arson fire seriously damaged the clothes encounter's clothing shopping, Kansas City, Missouri's fashionable Westport shopping area. The owner, Angela Washington

Thomas, a black woman, claimed that it was racially it was a racially motivated act of hate. At the time of the fire, Thomas told of racial harassment, including threatening telephone calls, dating from when she opened the store in July 1989. She told the reporter, this was a purposeful act of hate. I'm borderline shock that this could happen.

I'd rather it was of something I did personally to someone than because I'm black. Thomas's claim of racial intimidation brought immense local and national media attention. Anti-racist groups were lamenting the plight of the brave young woman and calls for harsher penalties for hate crimes echoed throughout the community. It also brought the FBI into the case, which proved that the actual perpetrator to be the actual perpetrator's undoing.

According to FBI spokesman, Max Geiman, the FBI conducted an inquiry, but a determination was made after a preliminary investigation that the allegations of racism were not supported. Lauren D. Johnson, a former Kansas City, Kansas firefighter, proved to be the key to the case. He had been bragging to a friend that he had been involved in the arson. This friend told a friend who called police. As the investigation began to focus on him, Johnson admitted his part in the crime.

The store was failing and it was burned to collect insurance. Thomas and Johnson were convicted due to an effective attorney and their willingness to implicate one another in the crime, both received relatively lenient sentences. Thomas was sentenced to 60 days of monitored house arrest in order to pay $13,000 restitution. Johnson was sentenced to 90 days monitored house arrest and 7,800 in restitution. Each was also placed on five years probation. That is the end of Chapter 5, and wow, does it have a lot of footnotes. just that chapter has 100 footnotes crazy chapter six heading jews

there can be no question that fake antisemitic hate crimes are caused for grief and consternation in the jewish community jewish concern with persecution is justifiable deep-rooted jewish sensitivity to anti-semitism makes hoaxes committed by jews particularly shocking I guess he's not He's not going to do that These hoaxes are almost always the product of individuals seeking to achieve a sense of importance through victimhood to advance a particular agenda

to seek monetary advantages through insurance claims or damage settlements or perhaps more commonly juveniles engaged in pranks. I remind you of a friend of mine who told me that when he was growing up from the youngest age as soon as he could understand his mom told him, we are Jews, everyone wants to kill us.

This is exactly, I'm telling you the story in the language he told me. Not quoting perfectly, but I'm not embellishing either. So it came time, his mom was a teacher at the school he went to, and he had always kept secret that he was a Jew. When it came time for his bat mitzvah, he was getting ready, and his mom invited, his classmates and he had a meltdown. He said, Mom, they don't know I'm Jewish. Now that they know I'm Jewish, they're going to try to kill me. It's 12 to 13 years old at the time. What happens to a

people who are raised to believe that everybody wants to kill them, but they're also God's chosen people and that they're very special? I would say, It's a recipe for incredible narcissism. Not everyone. But that's the way it would seem to me. That's the way it would seem to me. Think about, like a ruler. Think about the ruler of a country.

Say a monarchy that gets passed down. And you're raised as a prince, but you're also in a country where, You know, there are factions that would want to harm you. People would want to take over the throne. Is there a chance that knowing that you're a prince and that this is your birthright combined with the fact that a lot of people want to kill you, would that cause you to act a certain way, especially as a ruler?

If you had positions of power, if you had positions of influence. So think about that really, really hard. Because I'm willing to accept some people are, some people are victims of their own environment and upbringing. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive, by design. They move you, even before you drive. The new Cooper plug-in hybrid range.

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that does not excuse behavior. One issue that needs to be addressed is whether or not there's an organized campaign to commit racist and anti-Semitic hoaxes. For years, rumors have circulated that a particular organization have been engaged in this activity. Right-wingers are particularly fond of this notion in that it tends to confirm the conspiracy theories about the group. What right-wingers? Most of the right-winger, as I know, I'm recording this on October 7th, 2020. Most of the right-wingers I know probably have their Israeli flag at half-mast today. Oh, I'm sorry, the United States flag at half-mast today.

Who are these right-wangers? It's important to avoid paranoid thinking on this issue and to reject the kind of reasoning that suggests that every disturbing event must have a plot of some kind behind it, and a series of such events must be the product of a planned conspiracy. I do agree with that. I do agree with that. I mean, it's not like, you know, some idiot who, some rabbi who decides he needs some attention

and spray paint swastik is on the side of his temple and everything is part of a wide conspiracy. Now, just looking for attention. Well, going to be a victim. Extremists on both sides of this issue tend to think in terms with predictably, unfortunate results. I found no credible hard evidence of a bona fide conspiracy or organized campaigns commit anti-Semitic hoaxes. The best evidence is that the hoax incidents are unconnected and the

product of individuals and not of organizations. I don't think of a conspiracy, I don't think a conspiracy is required to explain a pattern of anti-Semitic hoaxes. In addition to the psychological pleasures of victimhood, the advantages to Jewish activists and anti-racist of anti-Semitic incidents are obvious, so much so that it would be reasonably, it would be reasonable, so much so that it would reasonably occur to potential hoaxers upon simple reflection with no communication between them. Who benefits from mindless acts of anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism is there for all to see, and it is most assuredly not anti-Semites? Some hoaxes have involved plots in a manner of speaking, and several of them have involved recognizable conspiracies to commit the particular hoax.

But linkage with other hoaxes is very unlikely, except in the limited psychological sense of the copycat phenomenon. The copycat effect is important, however, because it can account for not only bona fide racial and antisemitic incidents, but for additional hoaxes as well. On the other hand, there is some evidence of a deliberate effort to cover up or minimize incidents that prove to be hoaxes, usually to avoid giving anti-Semites ammunition in the words of one journalist. So they seek to commit this hoax so they can get attention, they can get sympathy, get whatever, funding. And then if the hoax is found out, they don't want you to find out about the hoax because then it gives people, what, people will realize that your behavior, you have bad behavior when it comes to this.

Is that what it is? Giving anti-Semites ammunition in the words of one journalist. Okay. If somebody discovers that somebody reads this book and realizes, wow, look at all these hoaxes. Why are they doing this? There's something wrong. And starts to question Jewish motives because all of this surrounds one identity. I mean, it's, there's this meme online.

It's like, what's the main cause of anti-Semitism? And if you listen to Bill Maher show recently, one of the panelists said Gentiles. Well, thank you for that. Another panel, and, you know, Bill Maher just, oh, people are jealous because we're successful. To which I pointed out on Twitter. Okay, so the Biden administration is overwhelming majority Jewish. The director of project for FEMA, not the head of FEMA, like I said, I made a mistake on Twitter and corrected it. The head of field operations kind of thing is Jewish.

The head of DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, is Jewish. Okay, would you say that we have a successful government? People may be successfully getting jobs and keeping them, but if you look at this government and you think, wow, this government is terrible, they can't protect us, we need to take care of ourselves. And then it's pointed out to you that there's an real overrepresentation of people who call themselves Jewish.

who are in this government, and especially in leadership roles, what's your success metric? I'm not trying to be anti-Semitic here. I'm asking a question. I mean, if it was Chinese people, if Biden's cabinet was overwhelmingly Chinese, if the head of DHS was Chinese, if the FEMA field director was Chinese,

people would be like, wow, first of all, there's a lot of Chinese people in our government. second of all, they'd be like, I don't, seems like they're not doing a really good job. But there's this one group that you're not because of everything that I'm reading here, that you're not allowed to, I mean, just the whole thought process behind why you would make up hate quote unquote hate crimes there it's very hard for me to believe other than people are so indoctrinated against looking at you know calling out groups group behavior that and you know group behavior. When you call a group behavior, it doesn't have to be everyone. It doesn't have to be

everyone. And Israelis will tell you, Zionists will tell you that everyone in Gaza is, they're a danger to them. Is everyone in Gaza a danger to them? I don't think so. But yet when it comes to this one group, and people lose their minds over it. Yeah, and people contact me, and they're like, well, you know, you just know, you just know, it's like, well, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? It's like I've said before.

I think I said it on one of my substack videos. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I have good pattern recognition. I can memorize stuff. Is that racist? Continuing. I have encountered several cases where the news coverage of an incident was explicitly minimized once it was discovered to be a hoax.

This, of course, is what is known as spin control, and some anti-racist and human rights group are pretty good at it. The number of publicized hoaxes, such as those documented in this report, is undoubtedly a small fraction of those that actually occur. The Anti-Defamation League itself may have been necessary. party to a significant mess representation on the cover of the 1985 issue of the ADL Bulletin, where a cover photograph designated desecration of a Jewish home in Kingspoint, New York, was clearly a fake. The swastika depicted does not follow the contours of the panel door and appears to stand out and away

from it. It was painted onto a photo or a transparency and then refotographed. The issue of the Bulletin also featured a major article entitled Anti-Semitic vandalism, two-year trend reversed. The article noted that California with a population of 23,000 had experienced 99 incidents in 1984 or one incident per 230,000 citizens. Okay, so in 1984, their population was 23 million. At the end of this, I'm going to look up and see what their population is now. and however much that has increased, what percentage would you assume was from Americans?

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a member of the ADL's National Commission and candidate from Mayor of New York, New Orleans, wow, was accused of creating and distributing openly racist and anti-Semitic flyers in order to create sympathy for his candidacy and raise funds for the election. Oh, I'm just stopping so that you can take that all in. The New York Times reported that a Maine Mince advisor had been charged with a misdemeanor count accusing him of trying to distribute some of the flyers. An investigation by the New Orleans Human Relations Commission issued a preliminary report, concluding that at least two of the flyers originated in the Mintz campaign.

Mintz vigorously denied that he or anyone in his campaign was responsible for the flyers. He conceded, however, that his campaign had mailed thousands of the flyers to juice throughout the nation in a fundraising effort. Bob Tucker, a campaign manager for Mince's opponent, Ernest Morial, said, Mr. Mintz self-inflicted a racial wound where there was none, and he did it to raise funds nationally. meant subsequently lost the election. He didn't even drop out. He lost the election. If I seem like I have an attitude more when I'm talking about these crimes as opposed to black crimes, when I look at those black crimes, how many of them were perpetrated by mayoral candidates

for some of the major cities in the country? I think it's a little more important when it's people. with real power seeking to do this. Lori A. Reck, 35, a legal secretary vigorously supported court-ordered desegregation in Yonkers, New York at a city council meeting in January 1988. She was heckled and booed by many of the 800 people attending the meeting. A few days later, wrecked, who was Jewish, began reporting death threats. As a consequence of wide media coverage of her alleged victimization, REC became a media heroine for her courage, and determination in face of racist attacks.

In May 1988, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the College of New Rochelle in recognition of her victimization. That's another sentence right there. She told friends that she had received encouragement and support from all over and had even been offered a scholarship to attend law school at Toro College. Ms. Rec became a very important lady. The ADL had been in the forefront in support of Miss Rec. In November 1988, she once again reported a death threat on the telephone and claimed

to have found racist and anti-Semitic graffiti near her apartment door. It read, N-lover, Jew, we haven't forgotten you, we will show the world your cause with your corpse. A bullet waits for you. Unbeknown to Miss Rec, the FBI had installed the TV camera outside her apartment, and it's probably a TV camera, probably. undercover camera. That wording seems a little weird. And attached security equipment to her telephone line to catch the perpetrators. The equipment showed that no threatening call had been received, and the hidden camera recorded Ms. Rec, riding the racist and anti-Semitic threat on the wall next to her own apartment. Rect admitted in court to lying to FBI agents. She faced a potential sentence of

five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Instead, she received five years probation, No jail time, no fine. Notice up top when we were talking about the black people, like the ones who try to commit fraud, these are people who actually did time in jail. Let's see if any of these in this group gets jail time. Of any significant. I mean, we have one person getting 10 years up there.

Not undeserved. I'm going to say, I mean, it's definitely deserved it. A November 24, 1985 AP dispatch from New York City reported, bandles threw rocks through windows of eight Jewish-owned shops. Mayor Edward Koch said the city would offer $10,000 reward. Ed Koch, wow. Memories come flooding back. The Jewish Community Relations Council offered a 5,000 reward as well.

The windows were broken in the predominantly Orthodox Jewish areas of Burrow Park and Flatbush in Brooklyn. Two weeks later, windows and another seven stores were broken in the enclave of 100,000 Orthodox Jews and 300 synagogues. Think about that. That's a lot of synagogues in one section of the city. Newspapers around the nation reacted with shock and outrage and compared the incident to Crystal Knacht when Nazis terrorized Jews in pre-World War II, Germany, even though no swastikers or anti-Semitic graffiti were found on the buildings.

There are mistakes in that sentence. I will not stop to correct them because... Let's remember, Normie Leftist is actually writing this. Pressure from the Jewish community brought increased... You can just listen to... I have plenty of episodes covering this and what actually happened. Pressure from the Jewish community brought increased police patrols and calls for greater vigilance against anti-Semitism

although no anti-Semitism had been proven. Nine of the 12 detectives in the police department's bias unit had been assigned to the case. Within two weeks, Mordecai Levi, a leader of the Jewish defense organization, a militant Zionist group with a reputation of terrorism, announced that the group was organizing night patrols. However, on December 9th, the mystery was solved, according to press reports. A 38-year-old Jewish man with a history of psychological problems was arrested in connection with the smashing of windows of Jewish-owned shops in the Borough Park and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn. Police had arrested Gary Dworkin, who lived nearby, on 43rd Street in Brooklyn. He was subsequently charged with 13 counts of criminal mischief, some of which were felonies,

including one count of discrimination. Media accounts emphasized his emotional instability, implying that that was the reason for his behavior. Brooklyn District Attorney, Elizabeth Holtzman, issued a statement that his vandalism was directed at Israeli-Israelis and Hasidic Jews. In February 1979, one Michael James Gutman applied for a permit to hold the neo-Nazi rally in the shadow of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. Gutman claimed the National Socialist White People's Party would provide its own protection if police didn't.

The application reported in the Philadelphia Daily News created an enormous stir in the city's Jewish community, one of the largest in the nation. According to the news, the application stated. that signs reading Hitler was right and Gaskami Jews would be shown and that the avowed purpose of the rally was to show the world ends and Jews are cowards. The news also reported that the Jewish Defense League had announced last week that it would meet force with force. Two days later, the Park Service rescinded the permit. According to terms of the agreement reached with attorneys representing survivors of the Holocaust who had challenged the permit in a federal court hearing here

the permit was withdrawn when the man who received it identified as James Goodman could not be found to testify today. An investigation revealed that the man posing as James Goodman may have been using a stolen identification card. Philadelphia police said that Mordecai Levi, associated with the Jewish Defense League, had once been arrested in New York City using information from the same stolen card. In August 1983, a series of fires in West Hartford, Connecticut terrorized the Jewish community and evoked media comparisons to the night of broken glass when Nazis terrorized Jews in pre-World War II Germany, like I said before. Fires were set at Young Israel Synagogue, the Emanuel Synagogue, and the home of Rabbi Solomon Kruppka.

In September, the home of Connecticut State Representative Joan Kempler, who is Jewish, was set on fire. Kemmler had spoken out against the unknown perpetrator of the three previous fires. Police involvement in the matter was intense. Nationwide media attention focused on the incident, which had launched several legislative proposals to curb bigotry and violence. Police Chief Francis Reynolds doubled patrols in the predominantly Jewish section of town. West Hartford Mayor Charles R. Matties announced a $50,000 reward. Indeed, police staked out entire square blocks of West Hartford. Hartford, hoping to find someone, hoping to charge someone with arson.

An article by Barbara Sullivan in the Chicago Tribune was typical of the coverage. She quoted an elderly white-haired man who sobbed, I had relatives in the Holocaust, I never thought I'd see this happen again. Scott Fiegelstein of the Connecticut Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League is quoted as saying, we have to be realistic because of our history. We have to take utmost caution. perhaps good has come out of all of this because it's drawn people together, but how sad it's come from something's too terrible?

The most important part of that statement is perhaps good has come out of all this because it's drawn people together. The Jewish Defense League announced that they would have armed patrols operating West Hartford. The Hartford Current published an apology for their insensitive coverage of this and another incident in which an anti-Semitic note was found on the doorstep of a West Hartford home. The paper editorialized. The current, for its part, must continue to walk that delicate line between informing the public and not playing into the arsonist's hand. The paper must be careful not to inflame an already touchy situation.

An early suspect in the case was Barry Davshoose, a 17-year-old Jewish student. An FBI psychological profile of the arsonist clearly presented. pointed to Schuss, as did several other indicators. Finally, on December 14th, newspapers reported that Schuss had confessed to all four arsons. In fact, Schuess had confessed to his rabbi, Solomon Krupka, several days before his family and the police were notified. Grupka claimed that the relationship between a clergyman and congregant is privileged. Gropka disavowed any responsibility for not notifying the police, which would have saved taxpayers thousands of dollars in calm, tense nerves. Damage control in this case was a masterpiece. Jack Schuss, the boy's father, said that

he had some problems in the past and had been receiving treatment from time to time. An editorial in the Hartford Current spoke of a troubled and alienated 17-year-old. The editorial quoted Rabbi Kripka. It's time not to be judgmental, but to feel. The feeling now is how we would as a family react. We have to be very sympathetic to his family. Obviously, you catch them in the corner of your eye distinctive by design they move you even before you drive the new cupra plug-in hybrid range

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the same thing? All right. Would we be being sympathetic to his family? Or would be blaming them for raising the next Hitler. It's really tiresome. It was revealed that until Schuss confessed to his crimes, they did not have enough evidence to arrest him, even though several times circumstances pointed directly to him. In fact, Schuss was a suspect virtually from the beginning. At one point during the investigation, police kept 33 officers in the neighborhood where the fires occurred. The Hartford Current reported that six homes were watched 24 hours a day and about a dozen suspects were given lie detector tests. At least 50, officers were assigned to door-to-door interviews.

More than 300 people eventually were questioned about the fires. Following his arrest on four counts of second-degree arson, each of which carries a minimum 20-year sentence, a motion was made to try chus as a youthful offender, even though he had planned to set at least four additional fires before he was apprehended. On February 27, 1984, Hartford Superior Court Judge John D. Brennan gave Barry Dove Shus, a suspended sentence and placed on five years probation. In a statement to the court, Schuss said that a possible reason for setting the synagogue fires was to show vulnerability of the police or the synagogue to anti-Semitic violence. Even the rich and famous are not immune to

anti-Semitic hoaxes, no less of a personage than Morton Danny Jr. was caught in such a fabrication in May 1989, Downey claimed that he had been accosted by either one, two, or three neo-Nazi skinheads in the men's restroom at the San Francisco airport. That's because that's, I mean, neo-Nazis and San Francisco, that's where I think. It's first place I'd jump to if I think, oh, neo-Nazi skinheads, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Greenwich Village, New York. Yeah, that sounds about right.

They then pinned him against a toilet stall, drew a swastika on his face, and cut a small swatch from his scalp. According to Downey, then they gave the Nazi Sieg-Hyle salute and left. According to Newsweek magazine, airport police weren't buying it. Officers on the scene said Downey only had a couple of lines on his face, not the full swastick he displayed to the press, and none of the dozen or so people near the bathroom saw anything, said in Airport Sergeant. draw your own conclusions. Downey later admitted that incident was publicity and it was prearranged. One of Downey's former producers at the WWOR TV in San Francisco said,

Morton knew his show was in trouble and he was trying to make a splash in the San Francisco market. What does that say about San Francisco? I don't know. Swastikos, while regarded as specific to anti-Semitism, have become a unisemitism universal symbol of racism and ethnic bigotry. Have they? In San Francisco, two non-Jewish minority fire inspectors reported finding a wooden plaque with a swastika painted on it in their office in January 1988.

A San Francisco Chronicle account reported, their discovery was deemed a striking instance of racial harassment in the troubled department and led to the resignation of fire chief Edward Phipps. The incident was troubling in other aspects as well. Fire Captain Michael McKinley found certain contradictions and inaccuracies in statements given by fire inspectors Walter Batiste and David's son. He asked them to submit to a polygraph machine. He said that key witnesses who disputed their statements have passed lie detector tests. Batiste and son were granted disability leave for stress since they allegedly found the plaque.

Captain McKinley said they had been sent registered letters asking them to come back for more questioning but neither replied. The men sought the assistance of private attorneys in the matter, and the case was dropped from public view. Oh, wow. Co-op City. Have a relative that lives there. Still lives there. Been there many times. In New York City, residents of Co-op City, a massive housing cooperative in the Bronx, found anti-Semitic graffiti and swast stickers daub... daubbed, dabbed.

On 51 apartment doors and walls in March 1984. The incident received wide publicity, including comparisons with Nazi Germany. A $3,500 reward was offered for the perpetrators. Later, two Jewish teenagers tried to collect a reward by turning in someone else and were arrested. The two youths, age 14 and 15, were charged as juveniles with conspiracy, criminal mischief, and falsely reporting a police incident. They are also suspected of other racist and anti-Semitic incidents dating back over a several-month period, all of which had been attributed to racists. As usual, the crimes receive far more attention than the revelations of fraud. On July 15, 1987, a Rockville, Maryland Jewish woman and her Roman Catholic husband awoke at 4.45 a.m.

to find a fire in the shape of a swastika burning on their lawn. Neonazi, skinheads, and KKK were widely speculated as the perpetrators responsible for the outrage. Elise Rothschild of the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission spoke of the fire as an active terror and said that there has to be an outcry from everybody in the country that we will not tolerate this type of behavior. It is totally not acceptable. It's incredible that like this happened in Rockville, Maryland, and immediately they go to the whole country has to be a part of this. Lieutenant Carville Harding, the Montgomery County Fire Marshal, reported that the perpetrator came forward and confessed at the urging of his father, Gary L. Stein, a 19-year-old.

old Jewish man confessed to the crime and implicated a longtime friend John F. Finnegan as the actual perpetrator. According to Harding, Stein claimed that his buddy did it. On July 1989, the Asbury Park Press reported that two unnamed Jewish teenagers had been arrested on the morning of July 15th for throwing firecrackers at passing cars. The two youths were apprehended after a chase. A subsequent investigation quickly linked them to an incident in which swastikas and anti-Semitic remarks were painted on a home and car, according to Marlboro Township Police. The two were charged with seven counts of criminal mischief, four counts of burglary, and two counts of theft.

Mark Greiner, president of Temple, Rodelf Tura, of Western Monmouth remarked, There is enough anti-Semitism from non-Jews. I would hope people brought up in a Jewish home would protect the religion. Something obviously went wrong. Had the swastika painting and anti-Semitism, graffiti been the act of

non-Jews, the incident would certainly have been prosecuted as a hate crime. This was not done, however. According to Detective Sergeant Robert Holmes, it's tough to prove their actions are anti-Semitic if they are both Jewish. The Asbury Park Press quoted unnamed community

leaders and scholars, familiar with anti-Semitism, to the effects that the teenagers probably acted out of personal reasons rather than religious hatred. Jackson and Toby, director of the Institute for Criminalological Research at Rutgers University, noted that the incidents might have been motivated by an attempt to arouse and blow the minds of the local Jewish community. He added, if you want to get people excited, start talking about

prejudice and racism. They know. Three men allegedly entered a Milwaukee synagogue and poured a caustic substance on Buzz Cody, the sexton. The December 1985 incident occurred just a few hours before the start of Hanukkah, a major Jewish holiday. Holiday, Cody, a former Roman Catholic who had converted to Judaism 12 years previous, said that one of the men demanded that he unlocked the sanctuary's ark where four of the synagogues 11 main Torahs are kept. He said the men demanded, open it up. We want your holy Koran. And referred to the group with the initials PDL, possibly referring to Palestinian Defense League. Cody described the men as being dark complexion and speaking with Middle East accents.

The synagogue senior rabbi Francis Barry Silberg said that Cody was obviously willing to sacrifice himself for his faith and his duty and the integrity of the synagogue. Alert police detectives suspected a hoax from the beginning. Milwaukee Police Lieutenant William Vogel said, I can't justify it with the investigative results as they have been presented to us. When you're talking about something involving a radical group, they don't operate in this manner. Ready for huge savings? We'll mark your calendars from November 28 to 30th

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the Defense League is at war with the Jewish community. On December 19, 1985, Cody's apartment was allegedly vandalized. The walls were covered with anti-Semitic symbols, again in red spray paint, including a large swastika in the letters, PDL. Police could find no forced entry. Rabbi Silberg said, the victim has been re-victimized. An investigation turned up no such as organization as Palestinian Defense League or PDL. On May 15, 1986, Cody was charged with two counts of his three counts of his three years. obstructing an officer in connection with reports he had made to police after receiving threatening telephone calls, which police had determined were not true. A trace were installed by the phone company has shown that at least two of the calls were placed from Cody's private line. Later that same day, possibly fearing discovery and disgrace, Buzz Cody, tragically committed suicide. Police Captain Ronald Mel, referring to the alleged December 1985 attack on Cody, said there was no shred of evidence to support the allegation. No further PDL incidents followed Cody's death.

16 months after arson destroyed Woodside Synagogue in Silver Spring, Maryland, no arrest had yet been made. At the time of the April 8, 1986 fire, community leaders rallied to the aid of the Orthodox Jewish congregation and supported a wave of demands that urgent action be taken to stem anti-Semitism and hate crimes. Lieutenant Carville Harding, a Montgomery County fire inspector, thinks he knows the culprit's identity, although he lacked sufficient probable cause to arrest the subject. Harding told Washington Jewish Week that, we feel we know the motive, but if we tell you, you'll know who the person is.

This is very touchy, he said. Harding also said the arson was not an act against people of the Jewish faith. Synagogue sources said one member who had since left the area was brought in for questioning and is still a suspect. Dr. Sheldon Jacobson, a Jewish dentist, discovered a fire in the form of a large swastika burning on his lawn at his Hewlett Neck, New York home in August 1979. It was thought that the incident was another in a series of racial offenses that had allegedly occurred in the area in the last several weeks. A few days later, police had their culprit. He was Douglas Kahn, a Jewish teenager who had been angered about because Jacobson's dog had defecated on his. front lawn. He retaliated by pouring gasoline in the form of a 20 by 20 foot swastika on Jacobson's lawn and lighting it. Khan, who had worked as a guard at Kennedy Airport, was later convicted a fourth degree criminal mischief placed on three years probation and ordered to pay $650 in restitution.

How many hate crimes can one bear? That's what Nathan Coburn was asking himself all summer in 1991. And there's no end in sight. Coburn, a Jewish man from Concord, California, claimed to have been the victim of anti-Semitic telephone calls, letters, arson, and verbal threats on 20 separate occasions between May 17th and Labor Day 1991, all threatening his life. Moreover, he claimed that the ordeal has damaged his health. On August 6th, when an unidentified woman told him he would die, he stopped eating. According to Corbin, my nerves were shot and my stress level was very high. On August 8th, Coburn became almost totally paralyzed. He was taken to a hospital and released the same day. However, after an article in the Northern California Jewish Bulletin appeared deotailing his

courageous battle with anti-Semitism, followed by another sympathetic account in the August 17th Contra Consta Times, his spirits lightened. He received some 50 calls to support. According to Coburn, people were telling me that they weren't Jewish, but they knew what I was going through. All kinds of people called. Hispanics were calling blacks. whole ethnic tossed salad. It was amazing. The harassment of Coburn began on May 17th when Halim Abdul Sanjah, a Muslim who lived in the same apartment building, allegedly threatened Kroberin because he was Jewish. Sanjani was arrested. He was jailed a second time July 12th when he resisted Concord police who were serving a restraining order on Coburn's behalf. Over the next

several weeks, Coburn claimed to have received numerous telephone death threats and awakened twice to find his backyard fence on fire. On August 16, Coburn received a letter that read, drop charges or I kill you, Jew boy. Sanjani, 28, who was originally charged with resisting arrest and hitting an officer, found himself also charged with making terroristic threats and interviewing with Coburn's civil rights. He faced several years in prison. Having acquired status as a heroic victim of bigotry and prejudice, Coburn became widely known in the San Francisco Bay Area. His case was used as an illustration of the hatred toward Jews that lurks about in our society. However, on September 21st, 1991, Bay Area residents were presented

with a different story. The Oakland Tribune reported, a Concord man who claims to have been the victim of 22 anti-Semitic attacks since May told investigators yesterday that he fabricated 10 of the alleged incidents. Police said, Nathan Coburn 36, said he was the victim of terroristic phone calls, hate letters and two arson fires that were set in his patio. He blamed most of the attacks on his former neighbor, 28-year-old Halim Abdul-Sajani. Yesterday, Coburn admitted to investigators that he ignited two fires in his patio, left two terroristic messages on answering a machine,

and wrote six hate letters to himself. Concord Detective Stuart Rawlison discovered Coburn's fabrication the night of September 9th after Coburn claimed to have received a threatening anti-Semitic note, one of six he had admitted to falsifying, and that he had chased an assailant through a parking lot. Detective Rawlinson, who had been watching the apartment all night, hadn't seen any of the alleged incidents. Rawlison also previously suspected that Coburn was lying about some of the incidents.

The ADL, which had bashed in the publicity against anti-Semitism and hate crimes, brought by Coburn's fabrications, was caught holding the bag. Richard Hirschout, executive director of the ADL's Central Pacific Regional Office, who had several contacts. with Cobran spoke of the developments in a shocked and shaken voice, he said. The tragedy of Nathan Cobran in no way discounts her diminishes the reality of increased anti-Semitism and the increased throughout society in hate crimes. The false charges against Zijani were subsequently dropped.

Coburn was ordered to appear for arraim in January 31, 1992, in Contra Costa Superior Court. He was charged with one count of perjury, two counts of arson, and six counts of preparing false documentary evidence, all are felonies. In addition, he was charged with nine misdemeanor counts of making false police reports. Coburn was convicted in 1992, Deputy District Attorney Terry Barker said he should receive the maximum sentence for committing hate crimes eight years in state prison. She commented, I argue that these were hate crimes and they were done out of a motive against Mr. Sejani because of his race. It was sophisticated because there was a lot of planning involved. It was a hideous misuse of the system.

and of emergency personnel. In July, he was sentenced to one year in the county jail in spite of pleas from his attorney that his sentence be suspended. Nancy Diner and ADL official who attended the sentencing said that Coburn's hoax will not change the way it investigates anti-Semitic crimes.

One year. That's all we've gotten so far in all these readings. We haven't gotten definitive on every case. That's what we have so far, one year. and, I mean, what you think he's going to serve the whole year? Usually if they serve the whole year, they give you a year and a day. In February 1994, a Jewish student at the Kansas City area Leawood Middle School was apprehended after he distributed anonymous anti-Semitic notes, apparently only to other Jewish students.

According to media sources, the perpetrator was identified and is thought to be responsible for placing anonymous Jewish notes with pencil-drawn swastikas and phrases such as, go home Jew in the books and lockers of six students over two weeks. The incident caused a major furor among parents of students at the school, and some threatened to use the legal system to force release of the student's name. Leawood Police Chief Stephen Cox criticized members of the community and the media for creating a feeding frenzy over the incident. He said, the child is already an intensive counseling, and so are the parents.

Because they are responding appropriately, I see no need whatsoever for any further involvement or sanctions. though through either the criminal justice system or the school system. What is very harmful now is a continued turmoil at the school. Children accusing each other, divisive efforts to identify the child. I would urge that people, I would urge these people to carefully consider their own motives before taking such action. I mean, how many times can you say it? I mean, if it was genuine, quote, unquote, some Gentile or black, or, I mean, I'll

gintzahs doing this. Everyone will want to know, but no, no, we need to protect, protect this one. Because, well, what do you think some of the leading cause of people going, I don't know about this group of people? Behavior? I don't know. One of the stranger cases of fake anti-Semitic violence was staged in 1991 by a former volunteer firefighter in Sugarloaf Mountain, Colorado.

who said he was mistaken as a Jew. Terry Hutter, who claimed that a mysterious fire set at his home, was one of the several alleged hate crimes committed against him since 1994 by people who wrongly believed he was Jewish. The fire was contained before the home was destroyed, but another fire completed the destruction a month later. The Boulder, Colorado, Delhi Camera, reported. Investigators discovered that, in a videotape of the fire,

Hutter inadvertently was recorded talking about setting the fire. Hutter and another man involved in the tape conversation, Curtis Covey, didn't realize they were being recorded. In April 1992, Terry Hutter pleaded no contest to a charge a third-degree arson. He was sentenced to eight years probation and mandatory psychiatric counseling. He couldn't even get... A Chicago area case of anti-Semitism vandalism in a West Rogers Park townhouse was originally thought by police to be a hate crime. On February 5th, 1994, however, police had arrested Shah's Steele, 17 and his 14-year-old girlfriend. The two were charged with vandalism and with burglars in the same

house. Belmont area police sergeant Rick Batritch said that the youth who apparently knew the owner of the townhouse and that the two painted the graffiti to link the burglary with the other unsolved anti-Semitic incidents in the area. They did this to throw some attention off themselves, he said. It was one of the worst anti-Semitic cemetery desecrations in recent memory. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Investigator initially believed that the June 1991 incident at home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the area, may have been a hate crime. According to news reports, more than 25 tombstones were knocked over in Nazi swastikers,

KKK, Kukk's clan, KKK's, and devil worship slogans were painted on some walls and tombs. And just throwing everything out there. I was just, ugh. Within days, the case was solved. owner of CDTA security, Roger Ricardo Sapien, 27 of Rosemede, wanted to obtain the security contract on the Jewish cemetery. According to authorities, Sapien, with the aid of two Confederates, apparently committed the vandalism in order to discredit the firm now providing security there.

Information on the case took detectives to Sapien's home where they found the guard dogs recently stolen from the cemetery. The three were booked for investigation of vandalism of religious cemetery, a felony, and Sapien was charged with theft of the dogs. Cooper City, Florida, I know those places. In Cooper City, Florida, Jerome and Jamie Brown-Roddle, a Jewish couple, returned home to find their home trashed and burglarized. April 1993 incident included anti-Semitic graffiti in the form of swastikas painted on the walls.

News reports indicated that outraged community leaders, police, and residents moved quickly to them what they thought was the start of a trend in hate crimes. Within two weeks, an interfaith counsel to promote unity among ethnic and religious groups was organized. A detailed eight-month joint investigation with the Cooper City Police, the FBI, and the Florida State Department of Insurance fraud was conducted. According to police detective Bobby Cates, in the weeks prior to the burglary, Jamie Rodel purchased several expensive items. She then conspired with several people to stage the burglary and vandalism. She also filed a claim with all state her insurer for $47,000 in losses and damages. The insurance company paid Rodel 30,000.

After she collected the money, Jamie Rodel left her husband and began living an expensive lifestyle with a boyfriend. In December 1993, she was charged with fraud and grand theft. She was freed on $2,000 bail. Her estranged husband was not charged in the case. Swastika painting vandals were suspected of setting fire to the basement of a downtown Denver restaurant June 10, 1990. The restaurant's Jewish owners were beside themselves with outrage at the ugly graffiti, Hitler reborn, die Jew. Lee Waldman, owner of the eggshell restaurant, also noted the business was down 40 percent, according to the Rocky Mountain News. Denver police intelligence officers suspected skinhead involvement. Denver mayor Frederico Pena,

1990, 1990, ordered an investigation into recent racist attacks in the city and the news carried several alarmist articles on growing racism and anti-Semitism. Lee Waldman said, I think there's a lot more anti-semitism in Denver than people realize. I think he sounds like he was very hopeful of this. City leaders responded with outrage, stepped up police activity, and called for new anti-racist legislation. Of course, it did. As the investigation proceeded, however, it became more and more apparent the skinheads were not involved in the event and the possibility of a hoax loomed on the horizon.

Denver police have heavily infiltrated local gangs and skinhead groups and had kept meticulous track of racist and anti-Semitic incidents in the community. The news noted that most incidents were committed by adolescents, perhaps bored and ignorant of the consequences of their acts, and not by organized hate groups, a fact that is often ignored. A one paragraph article finally noted that swastick is spray painted on the walls for the restaurant may have been an effort to mislead. In a later article on hate crime hoaxes, news reporter Kevin Flynn noted that, that after all the grandstanding in headlines, the spray painting of swastikas and the eggshell arson is now believed to have been a hoax and not to have involved neo-Nazi skinheads at all.

Investigators believe the swastikas were meant to divert suspicion. In one prominent case, the suspected perpetrator of a hate crime hoax and insurance fraud was acquitted on the basis of insufficient evidence. Susan and Curtis Klein, a young Jewish couple, returned to find their Germantown, Maryland townhouse vandalized. Swastikers were painted on the living room carpet, bedroom mirrors, walls, and hallways. Most of their clothes were ripped and most of their furniture was either painted black, ripped, scratched, or smashed.

The deliberateness and effort required to commit the March 1991 vandalism was highly unusual in alleged hate crimes. Someone would have had to spend the better part of an hour attending to the detailed graffiti and vandalism. In the bedroom of their eight-year-old son, the words Jew boy were sprayed on a mirror. according to Mr. Klein, the officer said this is the worst case of vandalism he's ever seen in a private home. He added, We grew up being taught about the Holocaust and being told never again, and here we are now.

I don't think we've gotten through the state of shock. The apparent hate crime was committed just a day before, the apparent hate crime was committed just a day before Jeffrey Lee Eskew, a self-styled skinhead, was acquitted of breaking and entering malicious destruction and religious vandalism, at an Orthodox Jewish boys school in Montgomery County, Maryland. The response to the anti-Semitic vandalism was overwhelming. 500 people volunteered to help Curtis and Susan clean up their home. A raffle was organized to raise money for the clines.

Area businesses donated food and soft drinks for the volunteers, and local hauling company offered to provide a truck to haul debris. Newspapers printed an address where donations could be sent to the Klein family. Police skepticism crystallized early in the... investigation aside from the unusual, time-consuming deliberateness of the attack, the most obvious clue was the issue of secondary gain. The Klein's became local heroes and symbols of the struggle against anti-Semitism. Moreover, according to the news reports, Mr. Klein claimed that 90% of their belongings were slash broken, shredded, or marred with black spray paint that was

used to write hate graffiti throughout the house. A review of hate crimes against property and anti-Semitic vandalism suggests the cases where the perpetrators go to this much effort to send the message are extremely rare. For a person to take time to shred clothes, for example, implies a deep personal motive for the vandalism, suggesting that it might have been someone with a personal animus against the victim. Investigators could not locate anyone who fit this description. On the other hand, cases like this often proved to be hoaxes.

According to Montgomery police spokesman Harry Gehring, we have not established a motive, we have no suspects, it's strange, why was this family targeted? There were other Jewish families in the area. Before long, the media began reporting that Curtis Klein was a suspect in the case, although no charges have been filed. The Klein's attorney Barry Helthend and Alan Goldstein were accused police of leaking information to the press. Goldstein spoke of it in conspiratorial terms, saying the police were trying to poison the public's mind.

It was also learned that Klein had been charged with stealing approximately 13. from a Germantown beauty salon where he used to work. On advice from his attorneys, Klein refused to answer any questions. On July 6, Montgomery County Police charged Klein with felony theft, destruction of property, and filing a false crime report in order to collect more than $31,000 from his insurance company. Anti-Defamation League Regional Director David Friedman, who had taken an interest in the case, expressed sadness as a direction the case had taken. Klein denied the charges and said he had been a victim of hate violence.

his wife was not charged. A district court statement of charges detailed several inconsistencies in Klein's account. Montgomery County Detective Kevin Stone said that the entry was apparently not forced. Curtis Klein reported to work as a hairdresser about 10.15 a.m. on the day of the incident gave him ample time to vandalize the house. A neighbor said the Klein's dog, who had always barked the strangers, didn't bark that morning. Although many of the Klein's belongings were destroyed or damaged, some items that were obviously Jewish were not harmed, somewhat the opposite of what might be

expected in a bona fide hate crime. Police immediately searched for a spray paint can, but it was three days later that the Klein's turned in a can, they said, was found under the debris. The can had been purchased at the hardware store, closest to the Klein residence, and a clerk said that Curtis Klein had been in the store on the morning of the vandalism. Klein at first claimed that $6750 worth of jewelry had been stolen, but later said it was not missing. The statement also said that the clients were in debt, including 5,000 owed to the IRS and 7,000 to relatives. Their combined income was 41,000, from which 580 monthly was for car payments, and 765 for rent on the townhouse. Police said they had taken out a renter's insurance policy less than three months before the incident, had broken their

lease and made plans to move shortly before the vandalism. In September 1991, the case came to trial. Eight prosecution witnesses testified, Frank Bell Property Specialist for the USAA Property and Casualty Insurance Company, said that client had claimed compensation for a glass-topped dining room table. Bell testified that a chunk was broken from the table when he inventoryed damages on March 25th. However, a police photograph taken to the table during the investigation on March 21st showed that it was unbroken. at that time, suggesting that it had been broken afterward. Nevertheless, the evidence against Klein, although seemingly strong, was circumstantial. Hardware store clerk J. Russell could not identify Mr. Klein as the man who purchased a spray paint, although he remembered him in the store that morning.

Claiming that the evidence presented by the state was speculative, Judge William C. Miller found for the defense and acquitted Curtis Klein of all charges. Respect to the failure of the Klein's dog to bark of the alleged vandal, Miller said, the only thing the court can infer is that this dog is not a very good watchdog. A week later, Maryland's assistant state's attorney, James Trustee, dropped the charges in the alleged theft of $1,300 from Klein's former employer. Client had been accused of destroying and falsifying receipts between November 1st and November 16th, 1990, police said.

Clines attorney Barry Heflin said, My client has already admitted to the police. My client had a nervous breakdown over this case. In spite of his admission, I'd have won the case. He has been reimbursed by his former employee. He has reimbursed his former employees. But it was not over yet. Once again, the mysterious anti-Semitic vandal struck the hapless Klein family.

In July 1992, 15 months after the first anti-Semitic incident, Susan Klein said she opened the door of her new apartment and faced a black Nazi swastik painted on the walls. As in the March 1991 incident, Couchers' John. chairs, drapes, and clothing were slashed. Drowers were strewn about. China closet and kitchen cupboard doors were open, and everything seemed to have been spotted by black spray paint. Jew was painted across a table, and a picture of a rabbi was slashed. Police said they found no sign of forced entry.

Ms. Klein pressed concern that police would consider her husband a suspect once again. I mean, I just don't know where to go. I mean, it's just frustrating. I mean, everyone will throw in your face the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. It's fucking horrible. You don't want to live in a country like that. You don't want to live in a country where shit like that happens. You don't want to live in a country that has disorder like that.

You want order. You don't want that to happen no matter what. But that seems to be as fucking horrible as that is. it seems to be a crazy exception, a tragic exception. We have a hoax problem in this country. It just seems that, I mean, when you look around and you see just basically how abusive this government is, dropping thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of thousands of Haitians into one town, not responding properly to storms, you would expect people to, to

respond with violence. Frankly. Not something. Not something I'm calling for. But you would almost expect, wow, this is going to cause people's afraid. But they don't. I mean, people just don't do this. Yet we have to put up with this and see no one go to jail for it.

And people actually be using the excuse that, well, you know, at least it raised awareness. Awareness for what. All right. So we finished chapter six and we're on to chapter seven where it says other minorities. And I guess we'll jump into some first one looks like Asian. There were ads in this. And you can avoid those ads by subscribing. If you do substack or Patreon, you get an RSS feed.

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