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Man charged with smashing Holocaust Memorial panel
By adamg on Wed, 06/28/2017 - 8:18am
Community is as shattered as this glass Holocaust Memorials are sacred ground, Grateful to @bostonpolice & witnesses resulting in arrest pic.twitter.com/Kb7DIrOekp
— ADL New England (@ADL_NewEngland) June 28, 2017
WCVB reports the man threw a rock at the panel around 2 a.m.
James E. Isaac, 21, of Roxbury, will be charged with malicious destruction of property and willful damage to a church, synagogue or memorial, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
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Nazi sympathizer, or drunken college student?
He's 21, and this is Faneuil Hall, so I'm leaning towards the latter.
Could be a drunk Nazi
Could be a drunk Nazi sympathizer student.
just no
This should not be treated like a 'boys will be boys' situation as though he didn't realize it was part of a memorial, and he was just a typical drunken bro smashing the glass side of a bus stop.
Everything about the setting and the memorial itself identifies it as something special and sacred. To excuse the location and connotations of this simply because he probably had a few drinks is insane. I'm not saying I believe it was purely anti-semitic, but he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
No disagreement
I agree, charge him on all accounts irrespective of his motivations as the damage is the same regardless of his intent. Still, it would be interesting to know if he specifically choose that memorial for it's Jewish connections or if he just felt like breaking something and it was the closest thing around.
It's powerful if it's a surprise.
First time I saw it, I was in city hall on unrelated business. I had no idea what it was. As you approach it, the glass looks like some kind of screening.
Then as you get really close, you realize it's made up of individual numbers...the subtle power of it is that it looks rather innocuous from a distance, then it draws you in.
Throw the book at him
He should be made to fully pay the price for his actions (including the cost of replacing what he destroyed, and restitution to the local Jewish community). But I'm hoping he isn't an actual racist Nazi skinhead. We'll see soon.
Yes, wait and see.
Leave it to the anons to jump to conclusions.
My thinking? He'll get in front of a judge, readily agree to pay restitution, then find out just how expensive a unique piece of glass with that many numbers etched on it can be.
He's named after a saint and
He's named after a saint and a son of Abraham so he can't possibly be violent or hateful.
Dumbass alt-righters tend to
Dumbass alt-righters tend to leave a trail on social media. If he is indeed a nazi I'm sure they'll find a crazy facebook rant or a #MAGA tweet reply to David Duke.
Save your trump hate
95% chance he's black
The memorial has been there for years
If it were a drunk thing, wouldn't this happen more often?
you know what's terrible
you know what's terrible about this?
i was worrying when this would happen, because i knew it was only a matter of time. the memorial is right there for all to see, in public, which makes it an easy target.
it doesn't matter if the guy was young. this wouldn't have happened a few years ago.
i can't stress enough how much we need to get the local nazi population identified/documented & suppressed before things get farther out of hand. they are a threat to our way of life here, and we need to take an unambiguously intolerant public stand against them.
Maybe you're kidding....
But if you're not kidding, you do know that what you suggest is exactly what the Nazi's did back in the old days.
Hokay ...
I'm closing comments for now, since people are clearly projecting their own prejudices onto an incident about which we know pretty much nothing, excepting for the bare-minimum basics of what happened and the name, age and supposed neighborhood of the suspect.
Once more comes out (the guy's supposed to be arraigned today) and we can discuss some more actual facts, I'll re-open the comments.