A bigot broken a menorah exterior a Jewish meals pantry in Kew Gardens earlier this month, police mentioned.
The hate-fueled felony stormed as much as Tomchei Shabbos of Queens and ripped the Hannukah candelabrum off the roof of a car parked in entrance of the charity round 3:12 p.m. Dec. 15, in accordance with cops and sources.
The merciless vandalism desecrated the $250 menorah, breaking one in every of its lights.
The suspect then took off, fleeing on 129 Road towards Kew Gardens Street.
The all-volunteer charity provides weekly meals packages to needy households, in accordance with its web site.
The vandal’s destruction got here at some point earlier than Jewish New Yorker Elias Rosner, 35, was stabbed by a hate-spewing man.
“I’m going to kill Jewish folks, I’m going to kill a Jew at the moment, I don’t give a f–okay. … We wouldn’t be on this mess if the Holocaust had occurred,” Armani Charles, 23, allegedly screamed in the course of the assault, in accordance with Rosner.
Police mentioned the NYPD’s Hate Crime’s Job Drive is investigating the Dec. 15 menorah vandalism.
Anybody with info concerning this incident is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The general public also can submit their ideas by logging onto the Crime Stoppers web site at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @NYPDTips.
Further reporting by Joe Marino
