‘Nothing short of cruelty’
Sheepshead Bay memorial for teen killed by bus vandalized
BY KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
Vandals desecrated a Sheepshead
Bay memorial dedicated to a local
teenager who was hit and killed by a
school bus last month.
Councilmember Inna Vernikov
tweeted the news on Monday morning,
Feb. 21, sharing a photograph of
smashed candles and a spray-painted
swastika on the sidewalk beside the
memorial on Bedford Avenue and Avenue
P, in front of James Madison
High School. The community had
placed fl owers, candles, and stuffed
teddy bears on the corner to remember
15-year-old Antoninia Zatulovska,
who was hit and killed by a school bus
driver as she crossed the street before
school on Jan. 17.
“Today, a constituent reported to
me that the makeshift memorial site
was vandalized with a swastika and
smashed candles,” Vernikov said, in
a tweet. “A young life was cut short, a
family broken, and a school community
shaken to its core. To have that
tragedy compounded by hateful bigotry
is nothing short of cruelty.”
Vernikov said she had reported
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the incident to the New York City Police
Department, and that they had
sent detectives to investigate the incident.
The department’s press offi ce did
not have additional information early
Monday afternoon.
Zatulovska’s father told the New
York Post last month that the family
was planning a Jewish memorial for
their daughter.
The vandalism was only the most
recent in a string of anti-Semitic incidents
and attacks in Brooklyn this
month. Two teenagers have been arrested
for unrelated assaults on Jewish
men in Flatbush and Bedford-Stuyvesant,
and police are still searching for
the perpetrators of additional attacks
and vandalism.
In January, Vernikov and her
Council colleague Ari Kagan joined a
march against anti-Semitism in Bensonhurst
after two 21-year-old Jewish
men were attacked in Bay Ridge Foot
Locker shoe store. Weeks later, cops
arrested local woman Christina Darling
after she shouted at and spit on
three Jewish children near a synagogue.
Councilmember Inna Vernikov shared photos of a desecrated memorial for a 15-year-old
who was killed in a hit-and-run in Sheepshead Bay last month. Vandals smashed candles and
spray-painted a swastika beside the memorial on Feb. 21. Photo by Inna Vernikov/Twitter
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