“They’re traumatized. They’re traumatized.” Lakewood Rabbi Avi Schnall said of victims’ families and the Jewish community still struggling with the terror inflicted Friday after a series of attacks. Schnall said one victim’s children, who saw the attack, are terrified to go outside. Twenty-seven-year-old Dion Marsh of Manchester remains in custody for allegedly carjacking a vehicle, running over two pedestrians and stabbing a third man in the chest, in Lakewood and Jackson.
Scott Richman of the Anti-Defamation League, said, “The vast majority of hate crimes against faith communities are against Jews. We’re two percent of the population and in the last (FBI) report, 55 percent of the faith-based hate crimes were against the Jewish community.” U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-4th) is calling on the FBI to investigate whether this was a federal hate crime.
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