Everything old is new again!-----30 Years Later: Remembering Crown Heights

30 Years Later: Remembering Crown Heights

• Anti-police policies and anti-Semitism that fueled riots 30 years ago are on the rise again

"Thirty years ago, anti-Semitic mobs plundered the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn for three days, chanting Nazi slogans, destroying Jewish homes and businesses, and lynching a young Jewish seminary student.
...The police struggled to deal with the riots in the face of anti-law-enforcement sentiments in then-New York City mayor David Dinkins’s office and among city leadership.
...Self-proclaimed civil rights leaders stepped in to fan the flames. 

On the afternoon of Aug. 20, Al Sharpton showed up to address a growing crowd of black protesters in Crown Heights and called for the arrest of Lifsh, the Jewish driver who hit the 7-year-old boy. 

"We are on the verge of an explosion," threatened Sharpton, who claimed that "apartheid ambulance services" run by the Jewish community were responsible for the child’s death...Read ALL!

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