Hunting knife wearing a swastika arm band when he was taken into custody. state police will ramp up monitoring in the jewish community. brown was arrested after he made threats against the new york city jewish community charged with making a terroristic threat. the 21-year-old brown and 22-year-old maier were taken into custody at penn station on friday. the threats weren t aimed at a specific synagogue. police believe they stopped a potential strategy. back at the new york city apartment investigators found an illegal gun. they went to pennsylvania to buy that gun. brown was tweeting anti-semitic threats like this saying you are going to ask a priest if i should become a husband and shoot up a synagogue and die. this time i m really going to do it. brown told police he was running a white supremacist group online. this hate cannot be allowed
I think they are recovering quickly, and just settling down to their work. bill: another troubling story, the fbi s attention on this, a weekend bust of two men accused of making threats to attack a new york synagogue arrested at penn station, on the west side of manhattan. police say the weapons and gear they brought to the city suggest an attack may have been imminent. alexis mcadams in new york about what we are learning about the suspects and facts there after. alexis. hi, bill, quick thinking from the police officers that caught these people at penn station. investigators tell us one of the gunmen was armed with a large hunting knife and a swastika arm band. he made some threats against the jewish community, making a terrorist threat, aggravated
Patch, a gun, ski masks. i want you to hear from the mayor, his reaction. to have a person armed have the means, the hate and the desire to carry out a crime of this magnitude is serious. we averted that step. reporter: i mean, they really did. the mayor even saying, can you imagine someone having a swastika arm band in 2022 in new york. there is a strategic event to deploy resources around the city coming up to thanksgiving. a number of reasons why law enforcement is being vigilant. couple weeks after the threats in new jersey as well. thank goodness for these law
Down and headed to a bigger center where they could find food and blend in. they may have different appearances. maybe these people didn t realize they were helping them. we re asking them to come forward. reporter: the 18-year-old and 19-year-old are wanted for the murder of leonard dick, a 64-year-ol64-year-old botany pr. they res suspected a woman and boyfriend. police are not sure of the motive. they re investigating nazi images one suspect shared online. a video game account sent photos to another user, appearing to show a swastika arm band with the message, blood and honor, written in german. another photo shows what appears to be him wearing military fatigues and holding an air soft gun. a third photo shows somebody in a gas mask. they report the online profile linked to the suspects shares
Ask about the impact of the rehas been answered. let s have a good debate. and bottom line, i know everybody wants to get out of here on december 17th, but you know, most americans work right up until christmas and our troops will be working right through christmas. we have an obligation, i think, to get this done and so if we have to stay over till the next week i m pushing my colleagues to do exactly that. lawmakers want to get home, but gay soldiers want to serve openly. there you have it. real divide there. thank you. take care. a store in japan pulling a nazi costume off their shelves, one of the top stories on msnbc.com right now. it includes a black jacket with swastika arm band. it has a sketch resembling adolf hitler with it. i mean, come on. jewish rights activists are asking the store to stop selling it, saying it s a symbol of