Police said four more boys have been arrested for allegedly setting fire to a Jewish school bus in Brooklyn.
According to the New York City Police Department, two of the boys are 14 years old, one is 12 and the fourth is 11.
They were arrested Thursday, and charged as juveniles with arson and criminal mischief as a hate crime.
The second boy was arrested by the Hate Crimes Task Force Unit after receiving a crime stoppers tip, a NYPD official told JP.
He is expected to face similar charges as 11 year old Calvin Payne, who was charged earlier this week with arson as hate crime and criminal mischief as hate crime.
Police say surveillance video showed a group of boys running off the bus as it catches on fire.
The bus belonged to the Bnos Chomesh Academy, a girls’ high school in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights. It’s a neighborhood where tensions between the Jewish and black communities living side by side spurred riots in 1991.
The investigation is continuing.
Arrested and then left in the custody of their parents? I understand that is how crime is generally treated in our community.
they can even auto deduct it from their parent’s welfare benefits. Kids from working class families would have more respect that to behave like the wild ones.
Besides any judicial punishment fro the crime, a NY State lien should be placed against thier SSN #;s, and any income ,payroll, etc. in the future should have funds deducted to satisfy the monetary lien.
baruch Hashem, they were arrested
Perhaps if these kids grew up in an educational system that supported a moment of silence as the Rebbe wants they would be cognizant of a Creator and not be criminals?!
Yes let the parents pay for it..if they have real ones,if they do I dint think they would of done such an act!
Parents must pay back all damage !
Their school director must make a rally /public event to raise all money to buy new bus to Jewish community ( the broken one they can take and repair !!!)
The kids community leaders must gather money for it too
Money for damage !!!! This is the only way that will stop vandalism next time in ch !!!
The names of these hoodlums should be released, publicized, as well as their known addresses made known, and there families(what families there are) should be on record not to receive charitable donations from any Jewish based source now or in the future until they fully compensate for damages they have caused
some kids love playing with fire, its not unheard of,
they still must pay for their damage !!
I hope police investigate them well and get to the bottom of the reason why they did it
The parents definitely should pay for it.
Parents must pay. Kids must be rehabilated and go into therapy.
Do you actually think they’ll raise money in a regular way? They’ll just steal other stuff in ch to pay for their actions.
Absolutely, make the parents pay for a new bus.
I believe they only don’t release a juvenile’s name in cases where they are a victim of sexual assault.
please tell me youre kidding.
It’s warm outside
number 2. let their parents and these kid bandits , raise the money to compensate this bus owner!!!!
I thought that the names of juveniles are generally not released to the press.
I agree that parents should pay for the bus. If my kid broke a window I would have to pay. If no Money, raise it. Are there still reform schools?
How can an 11 yr old do such a big crime as to set the whole bus on fire and destroying it! He must really have nothing else better to do with his life along with the other dude who was his partner!
I’m dead sure the first kid was already released and off the hook…
What’s wrong with calling a spade a spade?????????????
What Kind of 11 year old would do such a thing???? I hope they catch the rest of them. Its so scary to be in Crown Heights when you hear of these things happening!
…for not writing that he is black. It would have been totally unnecessary.
Their parents must gather money and buy new bus to the Jewish school /bus owner ! ( their community leaders must be involved in it !!!!) …. It’s not a kiddie game to set fire , all their community must take responsibility for it !!!!
This is tolerance !!!
11 years old must be punished too ….
I “understand” that Hamas children are bred, indoctrinated and trained to do such acts. But a young African American in Brooklyn? Is it gang related?