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We aren’t using the “White Power Chopping Block” in the headline, because this guy busted on hate crime charges for vandalizing vehicles with anti-Semitic graffiti might not be all that white. Story is still developing.<\/h3>\nWe aren’t using the “White Power Chopping Block” in the headline, because this guy busted on hate crime charges for vandalizing vehicles with anti-Semitic graffiti might not be all that white. Story is still developing.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Spray-painted, anti-Semitic messages found in one of Brooklyn\u2019s largest Orthodox communities may have been the hateful work of a former city cop, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n
Authorities charged ex-officer Michael Setiawan, 36, with two counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.<\/p>\n
A vandal scrawled more than 20 hate-filled messages Saturday against Jews in red spray paint on walls and cars in Borough Park. <\/p>\n
The rants included \u201cF–k you Jews\u201d and \u201cJews ain’t s–t.\u201d Many of the scrawls were found along Dahill Rd. and 37th St., and 14th Ave. near 38th St.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video captured images of a bald-headed man wielding a spray-paint can.<\/p>\n
Setiawan was assigned to the 69th Precinct, which covers Canarsie, before leaving the department in 2007, police said. A police source said Setiawan left the force because he was suffering from depression.<\/p>\n
Setiawan\u2019s younger brother Erik, a traffic cop, committed suicide in July 2011, cops said. Officers found him slumped over in the front seat of a parked car on Quince Ave. in Flushing, Queens.<\/p>\n
A resident on 86th Rd., near the Setiawan family home in Bellerose, Queens, described Michael Setiawan as mentally ill, possibly sick with bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got problems,\u201d the neighbor said. \u201cBut he\u2019s a good guy. Quiet. Helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other neighbors said Setiawan had been going through a public mental breakdown in the last few days.<\/p>\n
Some reported seeing him lying down on his stoop, others said they had seen him randomly shadow boxing the air. <\/p>\n
Sunil Sharma said he awoke Thursday with his dogs barking, and walked outside to find his black SUV keyed down the side. <\/p>\n
Sharma, 52 is a livery cab driver and had a TLC inspection the next day. <\/p>\n
Some of the graffiti that was plastered around Borough Park, Brooklyn on Saturday night.<\/span><\/p>\n “Luckily with my car there was nothing written on it,” he said. <\/p>\n Sharma said he kept seeing Setiawan hovering around his driveway on Saturday.<\/p>\n “He would come to my property and then when we would come out he would walk back to his house,” he said. “I did not know that it’s him, but I have a suspicion. Everybody knows everybody on this quiet block. Nobody just goes to somebody’s driveway and does something.”<\/p>\n He said Setiawan’s white Acura 3.2TL had been damaged overnight.<\/p>\n “I knew something was up because yesterday the car was fine,” he said. <\/p>\n The car was still in the driveway, badly scuffed and dented in multiple places on its left side. An NYPD officer said it was evidence.<\/p>\n Neighbors said he was disruptive in their quiet family neighborhood.<\/p>\n “When he’s out there, we\u2019re scared,” said another neighbor, who did not want her name to be used. “He paces a lot.”<\/p>\n That neighbor said Setiawan had come over on Friday and told her husband that he needed someone to talk to. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, Jewish community leaders praised investigators for the quick apprehension and warned bigoted behavior wouldn\u2019t be tolerated.<\/p>\n “We have many Holocaust survivors here, many elderly people and children who are appropriately frightened by unprovoked hate attacks upon their schools and community,\u201d said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Borough Park). \u201cHate attacks on our community will not go unpunished.\u201d<\/p>\n Borough Park City Councilman David Greenfield said it was \u201cshocking\u201d to learn an ex-cop was being questioned for the sickening crime.<\/p>\n State Senator Simcha Felder (D-Borough Park) echoed Greenfield\u2019s sentiments describing the former officer\u2019s role as \u201cdisturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n And Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said he was also filled with disgust.<\/p>\n \u201cHate is not a Brooklyn value and I repudiate any low-life individual who would spread their prejudiced invective,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We aren’t using the “White Power Chopping Block” in the headline, because this guy busted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}