NYPD releases images of Brooklyn church vandal
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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The NYPD released this image of a man they believe vandalized a Catholic church in Brooklyn on May 13, 2021. (Via NYPD Hate Crime Task Force)
NEW YORK - The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force released images of the person believed to have vandalized a Catholic church in Brooklyn last week.
The vandal tore down a large crucifix at St. Athanasius Church on Bay Parkway in
Bensonhurst at about 1:36 a.m. on May 14, police said. The person then pulled an American flag off the front of the church and burned it, damaging the church fence, according to the NYPD.
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The weather is getting warmer, the COVID mandates are ending and life seems to be slowly getting back to normal in various ways. For some people in New York City, that apparently means returning to their “hobby” of vandalizing churches and destroying religious iconography. Yet another sickening display of this fashion was reported in the Big Apple on Thursday night. Someone toppled and defaced a statue of Jesus Christ at St. Athanasius Church on Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst. In case attacking symbols of a religious nature wasn’t enough to get their point across, they also set fire to an American flag hanging outside the rectory. That brings up the same question I always have when crimes like these are reported. Even if you’re not a believer in any type of organized religion, wouldn’t you get a bit of a chill down your spine when doing this and considering what might happen in the afterlife? (NY Post)
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A statue of Jesus was smashed and an American flag burned outside a Catholic church in Brooklyn in what cops are calling a possible hate crime.
The incident occurred around 10 p.m. Thursday when an unknown person hopped the fence at St. Athanasius Church on Bay Parkway at 61st Street in Bensonhurst, police said.
The vandal pushed over a statue of Jesus’s crucifixion, breaking it into pieces, and torched an American flag hanging outside the rectory, according to cops.
14 May 2021
A statue depicting Jesus Christ was toppled and an American flag burned outside a Catholic church in Brooklyn, prompting the New York City Police Department to launch a hate crime investigation.
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The incident occurred around 10 p.m. Thursday when an unknown person hopped the fence at St. Athanasius Church on Bay Parkway at 61st Street in Bensonhurst, police said. The vandal pushed over a statue of Jesus’s crucifixion, breaking it into pieces, and torched an American flag hanging outside the rectory, according to cops.
“This was truly an act of hatred, and today is the saddest day of my twenty years here at this parish,” Cassato said in a statement obtained by the Post.