Racial tensions in Crown Heights, and the Shmira, the Hasidic civilian police force, seems to be at the center of it. Charles Hynes, the Brooklyn DA, is going after them:
“You can’t have a group, whether it’s the Bloods, Crips or Shmira, acting like vigilantes,” Mr. Hynes told The New York Jewish Week last month.Pretty stunning comparison, and especially bold in light of the publication he was talking to. But I find it rather refreshing to see an elected going after a group that raises some pretty sticky ethical questions and tends to racialize its rhetoric.
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it's funny,
cause when the police break into a home at 02:30 without a warrant just because it's a cops kid there not called "vigilantes". when a brother of a suspect asks if they have a warrant he gets charged with "OGA" (obstruction of governmental administration).
the da's office says there is no case and some how they lose the fax and keep him locked up an extra 7 hours. if thats not "vigilantes" what is????
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