Teens Hurl Rocks At BK Yeshiva School Bus Full Of Kids: Cops

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Three teenagers hurled rocks at a Crown Heights yeshiva's school bus on Tuesday and shattered its windows as kids sat inside, police said.

The three teens were caught on video throwing rocks from behind a parked car around 4 p.m. as the Associated Beth Rivkah School bus drove by, police said. The rocks shattered one of the windows on the bus, which was full of kids from the Lefferts Avenue school, police said.

The three teenagers ran away on Lefferts Avenue. Police said nobody was injured in the incident, which is being investigated by their NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force.

This is the second time in just a few weeks that Jewish children in the neighborhood have been the targets of an attack.

Last week, a group of five teenagers, one in a ski mask, knocked the Yarmulke and stole the fedora from two boys dressed in traditional Jewish garb near Eastern Parkway and Albany Avenue. That incident was investigated as a hate crime, too, police said.

Police did not say whether the incidents are thought to be related.

Brooklyn officials recently upped the number of anti-hate classes in the borough's schools because of the increase in anti-Semitic incidents. Brooklyn has seen more than 100 anti-Semitic incidents this year, including six that happened just in the first two weeks of November, according to the Anti-Defamation League's data. The incidents are a dramatic increase from other years, including back in 2017, when there were 200 total anti-Semitic incidents for the whole city all year, the group said.

Police described the teens in the latest attack as being all boys with thin builds. One teenagers was last seen wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, black jeans, a black hooded jacket and black sneakers.

Another, who had short black hair, was last seen wearing gray sweatpants, a gray hooded sweatshirt, a black jacket and black sneakers

The third teenager was last seen wearing black jeans, a black hooded jacket and white sneakers.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.