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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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; jaifengchen
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To: SauronOfMordor

Somebody on a mission for the PRC wouldn’t have been caught this easily. He’d likely still be at large. He must have been using the same id and phone and bank account or credit card. Maybe the same car with GPS. If they caught him this quickly it wouldn’t have been hard to track his movements.


21 posted on 12/11/2023 5:53:05 PM PST by x
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To: chief lee runamok
Mugshot:


22 posted on 12/11/2023 5:53:22 PM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: chief lee runamok

He sure gets around. Who pays for this?


23 posted on 12/11/2023 5:57:09 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell)
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

Deport him to Israel.

24 posted on 12/11/2023 5:59:13 PM PST by Songcraft ( )
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To: x

Weird crime to commit if he was a “normal” illegal. Do “normal” illegals travel as much as he did?


25 posted on 12/11/2023 5:59:26 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell)
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To: chief lee runamok

Sounds like he is one of biden’s border jumpers.


26 posted on 12/11/2023 6:03:13 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: Apparatchik

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

Considering how many Chinese people have crossed the southern border, this is a low-cost, high value system for the Chinese governmemt. i’m beginning to wonder if they they could take over without firing a shot. I’m also wondering if the vast majority of Americans might be better off that way!


27 posted on 12/11/2023 6:53:42 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: chief lee runamok

The demand for racism in the USA is so high, and domestic supply is so low - we need to import it.


28 posted on 12/11/2023 7:15:03 PM PST by PGR88
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To: chief lee runamok

That was my first thought.


29 posted on 12/11/2023 7:34:30 PM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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