Surveillance video released in search of man wanted for allegedly spray-painting swastika at Jewish school in Brooklyn
Eyewitness News obtained surveillance video in the search for a man who spray-painted antisemitic graffiti outside of a school in Brooklyn.
The video shows a man riding a bicycle on McDonald Avenue outside of Yeshivah School early Wednesday morning.
The yeshiva in Gravesend was marked with swastikas splattered in red paint.
The man pauses on his bike outside the school where the graffiti was found.
An Israeli flag was later placed over the spot where a swastika was found.
Swastikas were also found painted on construction barriers outside of a Jewish cemetery in Midwood and on a concrete wall nearby.
"You cannot engage in such hatred in our great state, in our great city and the great borough of Brooklyn, and think you will get away with it, you will be caught and you will be punished," Governor Kathy Hochul said during a press conference on Wednesday.
The NYPD Hate Crimes task force is investigating.
"I take the issue of antisemitism incredibly seriously," Mamdani said on Wednesday morning, as some New Yorkers are concerned with the mayor-elect's position on Israel.
There are serious concerns about the track record of the mayor-elect in the city's Jewish communities, from Brooklyn to Queens, and to the high-profile synagogues of Manhattan.
"The only thing I care about is keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. Anyone who gets in the way of that, we will come at them with everything we've got," said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
So far, no arrests have been made.
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