Somehow, race relations in Crown Heights, Brooklyn have taken a huge hop, skip, and a jump back to the 1980s, when tensions between African Americans and the Jewish community kept the city on tenterhooks. In recent weeks, attacks on young people, both black and Jewish, have driven people to protest in the streets. The Post headlines its article on a neighborhood protest "Jewish Blood Is Not Cheap," echoing the sentiment of one of approximately 300 protestors calling for justice after a 16-year-old young man was beaten and robbed yesterday.
Alon Sherman was smashed in the head while riding his bike early Friday morning. He was knocked unconscious and robbed of his wallet, cell phone, watch and bike. Police are not yet recognizing the robbery as a hate crime, but many suspect that it may have been in part a retaliation for the beating of a black college student at the hands of Jewish residents.
Cops recently released a photo of Yitzhak Shuchat, who is a 25-year-old Jewish man suspected of being a member of a private Hasidic security group who beat a black college student, whose father happened to be a police officer. Cops later knocked down the door of a suspect's family's apartment, but didn't locate the young man. There was some scuffling and complaints have been filed by the family.
Sam Jackson as Mister Senor Love Daddy, advising "Whoa. Y'all take a chill. You got to cool that s*** off."
