“This is what dividing vulnerable communities looks like,” Jews for Racial & Economic Justice said on Twitter. I’m also deeply uncomfortable with the optics of cops functioning as security for Jews against POC,” Jewish Currents editor David Klion said. “The story of Crown Heights bears remembering right now,” De Blasio said, recalling how racial groups came together. “It took constant dialogue and constant effort to reach residents of the community, particularly our young people, and it took painstaking work. But the division that was healed and it has been changed into a community where people work together,” he said.
