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Jesus Statue Toppled, American Flag Burned in NYC Church Attack
New York Post ^ | May 14, 2021 | Craig McCarthy and Larry Celona

Posted on 05/15/2021 5:02:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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. The church’s pastor, Msgr. David Cassato, noticed the act of vandalism around 8 a.m. Friday and reported it to the NYPD, the Diocese of Brooklyn said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: antifa; bidensfault; blm; deblasiosfault; nikkisfault; obamasfault

1 posted on 05/15/2021 5:02:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Biden removed restrictions and prosecutions for monument destruction. Welcome to the New Amerika.


2 posted on 05/15/2021 5:04:12 PM PDT by BipolarBob (This is my chainsaw. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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To: nickcarraway

Mitt Romney approves - as does his boss Nancy Pelosi


3 posted on 05/15/2021 5:04:24 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: nickcarraway

According to Biden’s edict...These vandals, if caught, will not be prosecuted.


4 posted on 05/15/2021 5:04:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: nickcarraway
Gee I wonder who woulda' done something like that?


5 posted on 05/15/2021 5:05:54 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: nickcarraway

>>>what cops are calling a possible hate crime.

Possible. They still aren’t sure?


6 posted on 05/15/2021 5:07:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. L)
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To: nickcarraway

Possible hate crime? What else could it be? No one accidently topples a statue.


7 posted on 05/15/2021 5:10:24 PM PDT by madison10
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To: BipolarBob

Yep, he told BLM & antifa “go ahead, smash and destroy everything normal people hold sacred.”

Just one day later, they are at it.

I have a dream that they all get enfiladed my SAWs.


8 posted on 05/15/2021 5:11:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: a fool in paradise

Hate is something very nebulous in our society.


9 posted on 05/15/2021 5:13:38 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: nickcarraway

The police are calling this a “possible” hate crime. How do they keep a straight face peddling this guano?

Are normal people ever going to get fed up with being told they are stupid? Because that is just what the police said.


10 posted on 05/15/2021 5:13:48 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: nickcarraway
"...in what cops are calling a possible hate crime..."

Nah...it was a love crime!

11 posted on 05/15/2021 5:14:37 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Hate is a Motive, it isn’t a Crime.

Hate Crime Laws are Thought Crime Laws that you would expect to find in Third World Bolshevik run Shithold Countries, not the United States of America, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.


12 posted on 05/15/2021 5:18:36 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s the church I went to when I lived in Brooklyn. Attended St. Athanasius Catholic School from 1st to 6th grade. So sad


13 posted on 05/15/2021 5:19:17 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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Democrats in charge: intifadah in Israel coordinated with deep state criticism of Israel, and in America we have flag burning associated with traitors at the DOJ criticizing America


14 posted on 05/15/2021 5:21:54 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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From the looks of it the statue can be repaired. It’s amazing what the can do. Would hope they do it and put up surveillance cameras and a fence or maybe electric shock triggers.


15 posted on 05/15/2021 5:43:52 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future. )
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To: Bonemaker

Love crime? Call Jeb! Bush. He knows all about people who commit crimes because they love this country.


16 posted on 05/15/2021 6:17:34 PM PDT by Bernard (“When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost”. – William H. Seward, 1/12/1861)
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