Woman charged with hate crime after vandalizing home of Jewish director of Brooklyn Museum
A woman has been arrested and charged with a hate crime in connection with splattering red paint on the home of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum earlier this summer.
A woman has been arrested and charged with a hate crime in connection with splattering red paint on the home of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum earlier this summer.
Taylor Pelton, 28, was charged Wednesday with criminal mischief as a hate crime in connection with the June attack, the New York City Police Department said.
In the attack, red paint was splattered on the front facade and door of Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak’s Brooklyn home.
Surveillance video showed five people wearing masks and dressed in all black defacing the courtyard, and hoisting a banner with the director’s name, calling her a “white-supremacist Zionist.” Stencil graffiti was also left on the ground that read: “Blood on Your Hands.”
At the time NYC Comptroller Brad Lander posted photos of red paint-smeared doors and hateful speech.
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