Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch playground vandalized with swastika
Over the weekend, a New Yorker named Karen Wang tweeted that the Brooklyn Heights memorial park named after deceased Beastie Boy, Adam “MCA” Yauch, had been defaced with pro-Trump graffiti. What makes these swastikas-painted so sloppily they looked more like Hindu or Buddhist symbols-so notable is that they appeared not only in the heart of liberal Brooklyn, but that they defaced a park dedicated to Adam Yauch. New York City Councilman Brad Lander tweeted a photo of the graffiti that included the words “Go Trump!”
Visitors laid flowers near the park entrance as a peace offering in an effort to put messages of hate to rest.
This caused the local meeting to become an all-out anti-hate rally, which was fueled by the support of local religious leaders and an artist from the Beastie Boys. If you’re able to give money, give to Black Lives Matter. Trump, who had no problem making fun of a disabled journalist, a deceased soldier family and women, was shocked by the peaceful protest.
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“We are deeply disturbed by yet another highly visible anti-Semitic incident in New York”, said Evan R. Bernstein, ADL New York Regional Director. Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten, from the Battery to the top of Manhattan.
“I think that another thing America needs to think about is our racism, racism that comes from the United States towards Muslim people and towards Arabic people”, Yauch said at the MTV Video Awards in 1998.
Yauch was Jewish, and cut from the cloth of a very Jewish New York family and culture.
Trump criticized the “Hamilton” cast on Twitter after a lead actor had urged Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who attended a performance on Friday, to ensure that the incoming administration respect racial, cultural and social diversity.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said to the crowd holding signs that hate crimes will not be tolerated in Brooklyn.