A man was charged Monday with a federal hate crime following the vandalism and burglary of an Islamic student center atJacob Beacher has been arrested and is in federal custody, according to an email to the Rutgers community from Kenneth Cop, the chief of the Rutgers University Police Department. HuffPost obtained the email Monday, and Megan Schumann, a spokesperson for Rutgers, subsequently confirmed the arrest and shared additional information.
“This crime didn’t occur in a vacuum. It occurred at a time in which Muslims and Palestinians in particular are being dehumanized,” Aslam said. “It’s good to see that when a crime is motivated by something like this, that it is tried to the full extent as it should be and taken as seriously as it should be.”“I’ve never had an incident on campus before on this scale, and we can’t help but equate that our pro-Palestinian advocacy that we have been doing that made us a target of a crime like this.
“We are humbled by the amazing and generous outpouring from the Rutgers community and the community at large,” read a news release Monday from CILRU that was obtained by HuffPost. “These acts of support from outright donations, donations in kind to replace stolen and damaged items, flowers, balloons, calls and emails have been overwhelming and heartening.”The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations welcomed federal hate crime in a news release sent Monday morning.
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