Mayor Adams praised the arresting officers, but said he's worried about a copycat attack and ordered the NYPD to step up patrols at houses of worship. MKramerTV reports.
MTA Police officers caught the men a few hours after receiving an alert about the suspect.
We've learned one of the men was wearing a T-shirt that said"I have a gun and I'm a schizophrenic," in addition to posting threatening messages on Twitter. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine tweeted a picture of a subway with antisemitic Nazi graffiti and said,"There's been an explosion of antisemitism on this site in the past 24 [hours]. I've had to shut down my [direct messages]."
Sources said authorities traced Brown's phone to Penn Station where two MTA cops, Ryan Fackner and Connor Colarsurdo, spotted Brown, who was with Mahrer. Officials did not mention a specific target, but there were two large gatherings of Jewish people in Brooklyn on Friday, including hundreds of Hasidic rabbis at the Lubovicher World Headquarters in Crown Heights.
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