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Crown Heights Incident “Shook the Jewish Community to its Core,” ADL Says; Praises NYPD for Arrest of Perpetrator

New York, NY, March 10, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today praised the New York Police Department (NYPD) for their arrest of Keny Rochelin, a suspect in the February stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. According to reports, Mr. Rochelin was apprehended on March 9 and charged with mugging and stabbing two

ADL Hails Successful Conviction in New York Hate Crime Murder

New York, NY, March 9, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the conviction of Elliot Morales in the May 2013 bias-motivated fatal shooting of Mark Carson in Manhattan. During the trial, witnesses testified that Mr. Morales used anti-gay slurs against Mr. Carson and his friend before shooting him in the face. Evan R. Bernstein, ADL New York Regional