Four Jewish Heroes

Can I introduce you to:

Abe Kaztow, a baker;

Motty Brauner, a dry cleaner;

Joel Klein, an insurance salesman;

and Motty Pearl, also a baker.


Heroes.

Jewish heroes.

Orthodox Jewish heroes.


The story:

Four members of an Orthodox Jewish volunteer patrol in Brooklyn were shot Thursday night after they followed and confronted a man in a vehicle who had been acting suspiciously, the police and witnesses said.

The men, members of the Brooklyn South Shomrim Patrol, a licensed unarmed civilian group, were shot about 8 p.m. near 49th Street and 10th Avenue in Borough Park, the police said. None of their wounds were considered life-threatening...The police said the man, whose name was not immediately released, had an “extensive” criminal record.

Members of the security patrol said that the man had been reported sitting in his car and fondling himself while leering at groups of young girls on Aug. 25, and that they had given his license plate number to the police. They said they had chased and tried to apprehend him, and had made a plan to confront him. On Thursday night, they said, they spotted the man driving up 46th Street in a silver Hyundai after residents called their hot line. Members of the patrol began following him in an unmarked car, and contacted Shomrim members in other vehicles to help box him in, said Sam Follman, a coordinator for the group.

...After a brief chase, members of the patrol converged on him from several directions, tackled him and forced him to the ground. The man then pulled a .22-caliber gun and started firing, Mr. Follman said.

“Probably he got off five, six shots,” he said. “While he was on the floor, he kept shooting.”

Kol hakavod.


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