Screenshot from Twitter. Florida man Nadim Siddiqui, 35, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly knocking over and damaging a menorah and other anti-Semitic incidents.
Siddiqui was reportedly seen on video knocking over the menorah at the Beacon Tower of Aventura, a city located in northeastern Miami-Dade County, on Dec. 4, damaging two of the light bulbs on it.
He then proceeded to go to the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center & Tauber Academy, where he allegedly told one of the security guards, “I can take your gun” and “six million Jews were not enough.”
Siddiqui had previously been arrested for throwing an egg at a kosher supermarket on Nov. 5; he had also been given a trespassing warning for breaking a bottle of wine at the same grocery store.
Siddiqui is being charged with criminal mischief. A spokesman from the Aventura Police Department said in a statement that they plan on prosecuting “Mr. Siddiqui to the fullest extent of the law.”
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