{"id":3072,"date":"2008-05-26T09:41:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T17:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2008-05-26T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T18:22:21","slug":"orthodox-jewish-vigilantes-in-crown-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Jewish Vigilantes In Crown Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a website with the lowdown on Jewish life in Crown Heights<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Lieb Skoblo, a Coordinator in Crown Heights Shmira was convicted of beating a black youth while yelling racial slurs at him.<\/p>\n

The newyork Amsterdam News reported; “Reports that Lieb Skoblo, a Jewish youth residing in Brooklyn, New York City, has been found guilty of a racially motivated bias crime…”<\/p>\n

Part of his conviction was that a judge banned him from participating in any type of volunteer patrol, yet he is still a member in shmira as well as in the Auxiliary police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sarah:  "According to the whoisshmira blog, there are 2 rival factions (shmira and shomrin) in crown heights that provide vigilante patrols, but also hate each other and try to get people from the opposing vigilante group arrested."<\/p>\n

From the New York Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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May 23, 2008 — An Orthodox Jewish vigilante group, under fire in Brooklyn after one of its members attacked a black man, uses "Soviet-style tactics" and continues to operate "outside the boundaries of the law," critics said yesterday.<\/p>\n

Shmira<\/em> – which in Hebrew means "to protect" – has about 100 members who ride around Crown Heights in white and blue patrol cars that resemble NYPD vehicles.<\/p>\n

The group, founded in 1968, has increasingly come under attack the last few weeks after one of its members, Yitzhak Shuchat, 25, allegedly attacked a 20-year-old black man with a stick on April 14.<\/p>\n

Cops said Andrew Charles, the son of a police sergeant, was the victim of a bias attack.<\/p>\n

Shuchat remains at large.<\/p>\n

In a case some in the Jewish community claim was retaliation for the Charles assault, two black teens were busted yesterday for the brutal attack last Friday on Alon Sherman, 16.<\/p>\n

Basean Parker, 14, was charged with assault and robbery for allegedly beating Sherman, then swiping his wallet, cellphone and bicycle. Cops said the attack was not a bias crime.<\/p>\n

Namor Clarke, 16, was charged with robbery.<\/p>\n

Investigators traced the stolen phone to Erickson Castillo, 29, who told cops he’d bought it from Parker.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, critics argue that Shmira<\/em> is nothing but a gang.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with New York Jewish Week, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes compared the group to the Bloods and Crips.<\/p>\n

The blog "Who is Shmira<\/em>" has put up postings from other Jews who claim the group uses "Soviet-style tactics."<\/p>\n

"My father was jailed in Russia by people like [Shmira<\/em>] . . . and I am not afraid of you, not now and not ever," read one message.<\/p>\n

A police official who did not want to be identified said there were concerns that Shmira<\/em> was "operating outside the boundaries of the law."<\/p>\n

"Sometimes, they are helpful," the official said. "Most times, not."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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