Local politicians are so outraged over the recent hate crime at Washington Cemetery, that they are offering $10,000 for any information that will lead police to the vandals.
“Hopefully, someone who knows one of these creatures who committed the crime will take the money and come forward,” said Councilman Mike Nelson (D–Sheepshead Bay), who put $1,000 into the money pool.
The biggest bread-givers include Nelson, Councilman David Greenfield (D–Midwood), who is offering $2,000 and Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D–Borough Park), who is offering $3,000. John Lisyanskiy, founder of the Russian-Speaking American Leadership Caucus, and a few other community members are providing the rest of the cash, according to Greenfield’s spokeswoman Stephanie Fedak.
“This is the type of thing that could happen in Nazi Germany, and shouldn’t happen in 2010 Brooklyn,” Greenfield said at a Dec. 22 rally in front of the sprawling cemetery, which is centered at Bay Parkway and McDonald Avenue. “It’s a crisis of mass magnitude.”
Police say that the vandalism was motivated by prejudice and, as such, the perps face a harsher sentence.