Overview
- Police investigating the Brooklyn Heights mosque desecration released a surveillance image that shows a person in red clothing carrying a tied black bag and asked for tips.
- The suspect threw pages of the Quran on the steps of the Islamic Mission of America, then returned and smeared feces on the door earlier this month.
- The NYPD is treating the act as a hate crime, and officers reported no injuries and no arrests.
- Police said the substance was feces, though they have not determined if it was human or animal waste.
- CAIR-NY condemned the attack and urged a swift probe, as hate-crime counts rose to four this year in the 84th Precinct and city investigators logged a 152% January jump in bias cases year over year.