{"id":4881,"date":"2009-05-21T14:46:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2009-05-21T14:46:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T19:46:37","slug":"its_like_the_guy_who_insists_that_hes_not_so_much_anti-black_as_he_is_pro-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/its_like_the_guy_who_insists_that_hes_not_so_much_anti-black_as_he_is_pro-white.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Like The Guy Who Insists That He&#8217;s Not So Much &#8220;Anti-Black&#8221; As He Is &#8220;Pro-White&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because when you go down that debate-club road, you start wondering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yournabe.com\/articles\/2009\/05\/21\/brooklyn\/brooklyn_newshltucgd05202009.txt\">why we should bother with hate crime laws at all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Police said that they are investigating the strange Nazi-runic graffiti in the hopes of tracking down who&#8217;s leaving the coded messages &#8212; most recently on the pedestrian foot bridge on East 14th Street and Shore Parkway back on May 13.<\/p>\n<p>While many residents ignored the iron crosses, the number 88 &#8212; a code number among neo\u00e2\u02c6\u2019Nazis for &#8220;Heil Hitler&#8221; &#8212; and the phrase &#8220;Triumph of Will&#8221; on the pedestrian bridge, a few concerned citizens in Sheepshead Bay called authorities &#8212; especially since the graffiti was found a short distance from Holocaust Memorial Park on Emmons and West End avenues, the only city park dedicated to victims of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force are on the case, although sources said that the graffiti could not be considered &#8220;bias&#8221; because it wasn&#8217;t solely directed to any ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>The graffiti was more pro-Nazi than anti-Jew, officials said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because when you go down that debate-club road, you start wondering why we should bother with hate crime laws at all: Police said that they are investigating the strange Nazi-runic graffiti in the hopes of tracking down who&#8217;s leaving the coded messages &#8212; most recently on the pedestrian foot bridge on East 14th Street and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-i_dont_get_it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}