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[It wouldn’t be AmeriKwa if jews were held responsible for their actions. Why, again, do we allow these human vermin to dictate to the rest of us.?]

Several police sources said that if the clash had happened in another community, there would have been a more aggressive response.

“There should have been a lot more arrests that night,” said one source familiar with the police response. “But it’s clear there is preferential treatment. It’s been like that for a long time.” Preferential treatment for Jews? Sounds anti-semitic.

No arrests in aftermath of Borough Park riots

BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
NEWSDAY STAFF WRITER

April 11, 2006

A week after rioters in Borough Park set more than 20 fires — including one inside a patrol car — vandalized another police vehicle and grabbed a sergeant, possibly in an attempt to take his gun, police have not made any arrests beyond the three that first night.

The incident between the Hasidic community and police in the Brooklyn neighborhood picked up steam a day later, with accusations of racial insensitivity lobbed at a top chief and a plainclothes officer.

Several police sources said that if the clash had happened in another community, there would have been a more aggressive response.

“There should have been a lot more arrests that night,” said one source familiar with the police response. “But it’s clear there is preferential treatment. It’s been like that for a long time.”

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, however, said the NYPD hopes to make more arrests, particularly for vandalizing police cars. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has dismissed any notion of preferential treatment of Hasidic Jews.

The problems started when a sergeant and an officer issued two summonses to Arthur Schick, 75, one for driving while chatting on his cell phone and one for not moving his car as officers responded to a 911 call.

Schick confronted the officers and badgered them, police said, even imploring the crowd to get involved. As the officers, Sgt. Angelo Russo and Officer Joseph Wright, moved to arrest Schick, a melee broke out.

Schick said he was shoved face-down into a police van as he was arrested. Meanwhile, police said, someone jumped on Russo and possibly tried to grab his gun.

Russo has told colleagues he never felt threatened and does not believe someone tried to take his weapon. But several sources said that in most other neighborhoods anyone who put their hands on an officer would have been arrested.

Ed Mullins, head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said the low number of arrests is sending the wrong message.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board, meanwhile, is conducting five investigations: one involving what happened to Schick, three involving separate allegations of force and abuse of authority by officers dealing with the crowd and one involving Chief of Department Joseph Esposito, who has been accused by elected officials of telling officers to “Get the — Jews out of here.” Esposito has admitted cursing but said he did not disparage Jews.

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