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The 1991 Crown Heights Riot
On 19 August 1991, a driver of the procession of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of Chabad Lubavitch Chassidic Movement, accidentally hit two black children with his car, killing one of them, Gavin Cato, aged 7 years. seriously injuring his cousin Angela Cato, aged 7 years. Tension erupted in the Crown Heights neighborhood, which was home to both black and Jewish residents, and anti-Jewish riots erupted for several days, resulting in hundreds of robberies and injuries to police and residents. On August 20, twenty or so black men surrounded and mortally stabbed a 29-year-old Jewish Australian student, Yankel Rosenbaum. The media coverage of the riots has often portrayed them as a scene of conflict between the black and Jewish communities. But a journalist, who covered the violence for The New York Times, later criticized the newspaper for suggesting that Jews were attacking their black neighbors while he had seen no evidence of such attacks.
Filming of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994
On March 1, 1994, Rashid Baz fired on a pickup truck filled with Jewish Orthodox students traveling on the Brooklyn Bridge. Ari Halberstam, 16, died from her injuries. Baz, a Lebanese immigrant, was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 141 years in prison. He first argued that the motive was a traffic conflict, but in 2007 he admitted to having targeted the van of Jewish students because of their religion.
1999 Jewish Community Center Shoots in Los Angeles
On August 10, 1999, Buford O. Furrow Jr. entered the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, and fired 70 shots from a machine gun, injuring five people: a 16-year-old camp adviser , three young campers and a 68-year-old receptionist. Sillon left, then killed a US postal worker, Filipino, Joseph Santos Ileto, a few kilometers from the center. He went to the FBI and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Furrow had envisioned other Jewish targets in the Los Angeles area, including Skirball Cultural Center and Simon Wiesenthal Center; he reportedly told the investigators that he wanted his actions to be "a wake-up call to America to kill Jews".
Filming of the Jewish Federation of Seattle in 2006
On July 28, 2006, Naveed Afzal Haq forced herself into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Seattle and shot dead six women, killing Pamela Waechter, the 58-year-old fundraising campaign manager. The incident was classified as a hate crime and Haq was sentenced in 2009.
The Shooting of the 2009 Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
On June 10, 2009, an 88-year-old white supremacist, James W. von Brunn, entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and fatally killed an officer of the United States. safety before being injured by other agents. According to a CNN report at the time, von Brunn was a known Holocaust denier who ran an anti-Semitic website and called him The diary of Anne Frank a hoax. Stephen Tyrone Johns, the murdered security officer, had been working for museum staff for six years.
