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Chinese national arrested, placed in federal custody for allegedly spraying swastikas on Kalamazoo Hanukkah display

Posted on 12/11/2023 4:54:47 PM PST by chief lee runamok

On Thursday, 27-year-old Jaifeng Chen was arrested in Arizona after he allegedly spray-painted swastikas on Hanukkah decorations and the wall outside of the Chabad of Kalamazoo in Michigan.

The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety said that the FBI worked in coordination with other law enforcement agencies in Arizona to locate and ultimately arrest the Chinese national. He was also booked on an unrelated charge on Nov. 27, according to WTVB. Chen is now in federal custody.

In a statement to WWMT, police said, "The investigation into the incidents that occurred here in Kalamazoo is ongoing. Once complete, the investigation will be forwarded to the appropriate authority seeking charges."

Officers said they "don't know what his motivation was" in the act, but that he is also accused of spray painting other racist graffiti around Kalamazoo Valley Community College's Arcadia Commons campus.

"He was difficult to identify for us because he had no real ties to Kalamazoo," said Kalamazoo Public Safety Chief Dave Boysen. "He’d only been here for about a month. He’s kind of been all over the country."

The vandalism took place on the night of Nov. 17 and the community immediately worked together to clean it up. Rabbi Haller told the outlet, "We do good things and positive things and in the long-run, the light prevails."

"They're not going to push us away...if anything, they're going to make us stronger," he said.

In a statement, Haller's wife, Dobroshe said, "Thank you for the outpouring of love and support." She added, "We will try to remove the graffiti and pray together for our brothers and sisters in the holy land and for peace everywhere; including here and Kalamazoo."

Since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists, antisemitism has been on the rise in the United States. Jewish students at Cornell have received death threats, Jewish students at New York City's Cooper Union were forced to hide inside lockers from an angry mob, and an Israeli student was physically and verbally assaulted at Harvard, among other instances.


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Chinese national arrested, placed in federal custody for allegedly spraying swastikas on Kalamazoo Hanukkah display
 Officers said they "don't know what his motivation was"

Maybe creating a little hate and chaos between races?

I'm stumped.

1 posted on 12/11/2023 4:54:47 PM PST by chief lee runamok
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To: chief lee runamok
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2 posted on 12/11/2023 4:56:28 PM PST by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: chief lee runamok

Taking orders from Beijing to sow more discord in the US.

Since the bio attack failed, this is what they are left with.


3 posted on 12/11/2023 4:56:40 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: chief lee runamok

“ Maybe creating a little hate and chaos between races?”
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So he’s a DemocRAT.


4 posted on 12/11/2023 4:59:36 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAo p)
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To: chief lee runamok

Point of entry?


5 posted on 12/11/2023 5:02:32 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: chief lee runamok

Whole bunch of words I’ve never seen used in one headline before.


6 posted on 12/11/2023 5:05:26 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: chief lee runamok

Some of that excellent multiculturalism.


7 posted on 12/11/2023 5:07:50 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Apparatchik

I’m thinking the same. Did he just come over the border?


8 posted on 12/11/2023 5:08:06 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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Taking orders from Beijing to sow more discord in the US.

Most likely. If he's been here only a month, we can't blame it on schools and teachers here. Things are getting insane.

9 posted on 12/11/2023 5:08:27 PM PST by roadcat
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To: chief lee runamok

It is to the advantage of China to spread chaos in the United States.


10 posted on 12/11/2023 5:09:32 PM PST by marktwain
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To: chief lee runamok

For the uninitiated, Chinese Nationals act on behalf of the Chinese Communist Government.

period


11 posted on 12/11/2023 5:15:29 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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Plus China won’t take him back.


12 posted on 12/11/2023 5:15:31 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: chief lee runamok

Looks like he has a beard (not typical for Chinese). Maybe a Uyghur (Chinese moslem)?


13 posted on 12/11/2023 5:21:03 PM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: DIRTYSECRET

He would add a little spice to the Soylent Green being produced for us all.


14 posted on 12/11/2023 5:21:44 PM PST by oldasrocks
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I believe this is why the border is open. The illegals are stationed around the country. Part of the grand plan. 10 to 1 ratio men to women and children it looks like. The free phones allow them to coordinate and receive their marching orders.
There were a whole platoon of chicom men marching down a 2 lane highway here in South Texas a few weeks ago, farmer who observed them said there were 30 to 40 of them.


15 posted on 12/11/2023 5:25:46 PM PST by TStro
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To: chief lee runamok

Yes, at Chairman Xi’s request.


16 posted on 12/11/2023 5:32:52 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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“He’s kind of been all over the country.”

Really? I wonder what he’s been up to, and what his mission was, besides churning out incidents like this.

How do they know he’s been “all over”? Has he been seen in other incidents?


17 posted on 12/11/2023 5:35:16 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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They were hoping it was a “white supremist” else they never would have wasted their time in one of their own illegal imports


18 posted on 12/11/2023 5:37:44 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪a)
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To: chief lee runamok

Try convict and hang the foreign spy and send pic to gi with a big 🖕


19 posted on 12/11/2023 5:45:09 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Says he has been many places in U.S. I wonder if any vandalism can be tracked to his movements?


20 posted on 12/11/2023 5:45:23 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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