A woman has been arrested on hate crime charges in the vandalism of the homes of the Brooklyn Museum’s leaders during a wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
FILE - The Brooklyn Museum of Art is shown April 13, 2004, in Brooklyn, N.Y. A woman was arrested Wednesday, July 31, 2024, on hate crime charges in the vandalism of the homes of the museums leaders during a wave of pro-Palestinian protests. Taylor Pelton, 28, was arrested Wednesday on charges of criminal mischief and criminal mischief as a hate crime, police said.
Pelton was arraigned Wednesday night and released with court supervision, a spokesperson for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said. Many New York City leaders criticized the protests and noted the museum's track record of fighting for the First Amendment rights of artists and occasionally angering conservative critics. As recently as last fall, the museum was accused of tolerating antisemitism after hosting an art fair at which one vendor sold material with the slogans “globalize the intifada” and “river to the sea.”
“This is the face of hatred. Jewish Americans made to feel unsafe in their own home – just because they are Jewish,” he said. “This is not even close to free speech. This is intimidation. It is scapegoating. It is dehumanization.”
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