LAWLESS NYC: DEMOCRAT Judge Orders RELEASE of Serial Synagogue Attacker Charged With 42 CRIMINAL CHARGES of Hate Crime And Destruction

Burnette is accused of shattering synagogue doors and windows, smashing multiple car windows — and dousing prayer books. Now, imagine if he had done this to several mosques ……..

The man who errorized Riverdale synagogues for nearly two weeks left a pile of one congregation’s prayer books doused in hand sanitizer in woods nearby, prosecutors said.

The Riverdale Jewish Center, Chabad of Riverdale, Young Israel of Riverdale and Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale were attacked Friday and Saturday, police said.

An unknown male was seen throwing rocks at Chabad of Riverdale at 535 West 246th Street just after midnight Friday, cops said.

A short time later, a suspect was seen throwing two rocks at the front doors of the Riverdale Jewish Center at 3700 Independence Avenue, causing the doors to shatter, cops said. Windows at the center were then broken around 11:45 p.m. Friday.

Jordan Burnette, 29, faces 42 criminal charges for his role in nine separate incidents of alleged vandalism over 11 days, in which he is accused of pelting rocks through the doors and windows of four Jewish communal buildings.

The spree of destruction came to a halt on Saturday night when cops caught Burnette riding against traffic on a bike stolen from nearby Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel.

Bronx judge orders accused Jewish center vandal to be cut loose

By Reuven Fenton and Elizabeth Rosner,  NY Post, May 3, 2021 |

A Bronx judge on Sunday night ordered the alleged Riverdale synagogue vandal cut loose on supervised release — reversing an earlier decision by a separate jurist to hold the suspect on $20,000 bail.

The suspect, 29-year-old Jordan Burnette, was granted supervised release by Judge Tara Collins in Bronx Criminal Court — hours after he was ordered held on bail on 42 charges stemming from his alleged 11-day crime spree, said Patrice O’Shaughnessy, a spokeswoman for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.

Under New York state law, a suspect hit with Burnette’s charges cannot be held on bail.

But that didn’t stop Judge Louis Nock, who earlier Sunday ordered that Burnette be held in lieu of $20,000 — even though prosecutors insisted the man had to be sprung under the state’s controversial bail reform laws.

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“Given the number of attacks, we probably would have asked for substantial bail before January of 2020,” Assistant District Attorney Theresa Gottlieb told Nock earlier Sunday.

29-year-old Jordan Burnette was arrested in connection with a series of hate crimes in the Bronx.

Jordan Burnette was arrested in connection with a series of hate crimes in the Bronx.

“The legislature did not include hate crimes in its revision of bail reform and, under the law as it exists today, this is not eligible,” she added. “We will not violate the law.”

But Nock made his ruling after deciding that the “shattering of glass” constitutes a violent felony.

Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale where glass doors were smashed.

Burnette is accused of shattering synagogue doors and windows, smashing multiple car windows — and dousing prayer books from Adath Israel in hand sanitizer before tossing them in the woods nearby.

A number of charges against Burnette are hate crime-related offenses.