Authorities say two men busted at Penn Station after antisemitic threats were posted on social media represented a real danger. Police say one man tweeted that he was going to ask a priest if he should 'become a husband or shoot up a synagogue and die.' They face illegal weapons and making a terrorist threat charges.
Mayor Eric Adams said social media posts that a man made about attacking a synagogue were "not an idle threat." Authorities arrested a man from Manhattan and a man from Long Island early Saturday.Social media posts about attacking a synagogue represented a real danger to the city's Jewish community, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday.
A description of Brown, 21, and Mahrer, 22, went out to law enforcers, and two MTA police officers spotted the two at Penn Station late Friday and arrested them, police said.Brown had a large military-style knife, a ski mask and a swastika arm patch when he was arrested, authorities said. "I have Nazi paraphernalia at my house. I think it is really cool," Brown told police, the complaint said.
Both men were arraigned in Manhattan criminal court over the weekend and are due back in court on Wednesday. Federal charges against them could be filed at a later time, Driscoll said.New Jersey teen charged with threatening to attack synagogues
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