NYC police look into swastika fliers in Brooklyn
Jewish group spies neo-Nazi leaflets in Jewish area of Williamsburg, alerts authorities
New York City police are investigating the distribution of fliers marked with swastikas in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
A member of the Shomrim, a watchdog group affiliated with New York’s ultra-Orthodox community, spotted the fliers on Bedford Avenue, a Jewish area of the Brooklyn neighborhood, on Monday evening, according to the JPUpdates news site.
The group alerted the police.
Police were reviewing surveillance video to see if they can track the fliers’ distributor, JPUpdates said.
The fliers are marked with a swastika and the word “uber,” which roughly translates as “superior” in German.
Ride sharing company Uber, whose logo was used in the flyer, condemned the incident. “Uber condemns this disgusting act of hatred and calls on the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force to aggressively investigate this despicable crime,” Josh Mohrer, Uber’s New York general manager, said in a statement, according to DNAinfo.com.