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Anti-Semitic graffiti leads to arrest of former NY police officer

(JNS.org) A former New York Police Department (NYPD) police officer who left the force in 2007 was arrested for the spray-painting of anti-Semitic graffiti in Borough Park, a largely Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Michael Setiawan, 36, allegedly had a mental breakdown when he sprayed swastikas and hateful language on 15 cars and the walls of several buildings, including a Jewish school. Security footage from the area shows a man believed to be Setiawan vandalizing the area with graffiti on Saturday. He was accused of spraying the words “F—- you Jew” and “Jew cheap s—-.” Setiawan was charged with 19 counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime and 19 counts of aggravated harassment as a hate crime.

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