One of the more interesting facts about life in Crown Heights, Brooklyn is a small, largely as a large population of Caribbean and African descent and a minority of Hasidic Jews were in the same neighborhood, living almost side by side and not interact. Tensions over the years, are known. Only in August 1991 that the real tension came to light and would be known as the "Crown Heights Riots" was.
He was known as a rabbiaccompanied by the city in a procession, a procession of cars stuck and accidentally killed a child of immigrants from Guyana and his cousin. Even if the accounts are different, what is good to know that the driver of the car that hit Jewish children attacked by a group of men, blacks had to arrive before the ambulance. A volunteer ambulance first Jews arrived and took the driver, a Jewish hospital, and soon after came another ambulance to take the kids to the hospital. One ofChildren died shortly after taking in the hospital. The black community was sure that the driver of the vehicle from the scene, taken before the children and explained that it was racially motivated.
Riot
After the incident, violence broke. An Orthodox Jew from Australia who went in the neighborhood of Crown Heights, was attacked and killed by a group of men blacks. This eventually started rioting and violence around the cultural and racial tensions between Hasidic JewsCommunity and the African and Caribbean American communities.
The agitation, which included three days of violence, looting, damage to many Jewish homes, ultimately leading to political and local leaders must work harder to racial reconciliation in the district. The Crown Heights Riot was a great influence on the election of the mayor of New York in 1993. Mayor David Dinkins was in touch with the Crown Heights riots, saying that it has used the police enough to criticize and act quicklyenough. At the end he lost a lot of supporters in the race of 1993, which led to his defeat by Rudolph Giuliani.
The Crown Heights Riot
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