Juvenile Charged with hate crime: 11-year-old boy caught on camera setting Jewish school bus on fire in Brooklyn
11-year-old boy set bus for
Jewish girls school in Crown Heights,
Brooklyn on fire – cops
Used a pizza box to start the fire and left it to burn on the empty bus.
Teens known for setting buses on fire in the area.
Young culprit is facing arson and criminal mischief charges.
Security video, obtained by the website CrownHeights.Info, shows the five children running into the bus with pieces of cardboard. Flames appear towards the front of the bus within seconds as the kids pile out. Within minutes, thick black smoke engulfs the yellow bus, which was parked outside Beth Rivkah, a private girls school, the video shows.
Neighborhood residents said they were saddened to hear that a hate crime may have been perpetrated by such young boys.
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Torched school Jewish Girl’s school, Brooklyn.
“It’s terrible,” said Chani Klein, a parent at the school. “I’d like to see these kids get some help.”
“I don’t know why they would do that. Maybe they were just bored, or maybe it really was about hate. Either way they blew up a bus. They need help,” she said.
The 11-year-old was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime and arson as a hate crime. Cops are searching for the other four boys.
Chaim Rosenstein, 26, who lives in the area, said the bias allegation has residents concerned.
Photo: Aaron Berger/ NYDailyNews
“It’s very sad that there was just enough mischief and possibly bias and hate pent up up inside an 11-year-old,” he said.
“People are very shocked,” Rosenstein added. “They’re concerned.”
The bus, which is not clearly marked as a Yeshiva vehicle, is owned an operated by BSD Trans Corp. The company could not be reached for comment.
Scorched prayer books a cell phone and a camera laid amongst the broken glass, seat cushion stuffing and charred detritus outside the the bus.
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