But with the spiraling growth in antisemitic violence, and in social media vitriol, I wanted to understand the origin story of the operation-and why it had become so critical. Paulette’s intelligence group has operated largely out of public view. In the days after the Penn Station arrest (both men now face terrorism charges), Paulette was haunted by a nagging fear: What if we had somehow missed the alert? She was in her early 30s, not long out of grad school, and now a member of a team with a most unlikely livelihood: searching for the lone wolves and sociopaths threatening the 1.6 million Jews in New York City and its surroundings. “An attack on any one group of us is an attack on all of us.” “It has become normalized by politicians and celebrities,” Adams said, “amplified by social media and cable news, and weaponized by the easy availability of guns in this country.” President Joe Biden would go even further in May when, amid soaring rates of hate crimes against people of various ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds, he rolled out the first national strategy for addressing antisemitism. “We stopped a synagogue shooting.” Brown and Mahrer-the latter a grandson of a Holocaust survivor-had allegedly been trying to determine which synagogue to target on the Upper West Side, not far from where Paulette lived.Īt a Monday press conference, New York City mayor Eric Adams called such crimes “a dark cloud over our nation” and demanded that social media sites reckon with their responsibility in monitoring hate speech. When Paulette finally looked at her phone Saturday evening, more than 100 messages had passed among her intelligence team. There are, of course, no blessings in the church for murder or antisemitism. Patrick’s Cathedral to “get the blessings” before traveling to Pennsylvania to buy a gun.
The next day, the suspects told police they had recently gone to St. Officials recovered a Glock semiautomatic, a ghost gun with an extended 30-round magazine, a hunting knife, a ski mask, and a Nazi armband.
They were arrested in connection with Brown’s online threat to attack a synagogue. And just before midnight, two suspects, a 21-year-old named Christopher Brown, with links to online neo-Nazi groups, and his friend Matthew Mahrer, 22, were spotted at Manhattan’s Penn Station. the first BOLO-“Be on the lookout”-was sent to thousands of NYPD and local transit patrols.
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