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Posted By admin on January 4, 2020

A private truck filled with armed security officers will start roaming around Rockland County to help protect local synagogues after Saturday nights attack on a Hanukkah celebration, officials said Monday.

The move was announced during a press conference at which several relatives of suspect Grafton Thomas made a surprise appearance in the audience, WPIX-TV reported. The relatives did not speak. The familys lawyer said they would be holding a press conference Monday afternoon.

Were volunteering a free service of armed officers in a very menacing omnipresent truck to help deter a reoccurrence like Saturdays attack, Patrick Brosnan, CEO of Brosnan Risk Consultants, based in Pearl River in Rockland County, told reporters.

Im personally disgusted and appalled that this continues to happen in my back yard, Brosnan said, referring to the bloody weekend machete assault during a rabbis service in the Jewish enclave of Monsey in Rockland.

Five Hasidic Jews were wounded, including a 70-year-old man who his family said is clinging to life. The horror was allegedly carried out by Thomas, a violent schizophrenic.

Brosnan, accompanied at a press conference by Rockland County Executive Ed Day, said the guards would be working around the clock and paid for by his firm, which describes itself as a security, investigative & intelligence company on its website.

Brosnan said the synagogues that will receive the extra protection are all in Rockland County and include those who feel threatened. He declined to say which ones, adding that the list is evolving.

Day said the move has the blessing of local law enforcement.

We are fighting back, he said. We cannot sit around and do nothing.

Brosnan added, This is a terroristic act.

Youre never going to solve it completely, ladies and gentlemen. But you can minimize occurrence.

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Armed guards in truck will patrol Rockland County in wake of Monsey stabbing - New York Post

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