PUNKS page 14

at the end of Northwestern Hwy.

WEST BLOOMFIELD

tunately, I had gone through
quite a bit of harassment at the
various yeshivas I attended. If I
see an incident, I do something
to help out. Shabbos is a partic-
ularly vulnerable time for Or-
thodox Jews. In a park situation,
it's very difficult for them to get
the help necessary to protect
themselves."
Mr. Abraham added that two
of the three youths were known
in his former neighborhood in
Oak Park as troublemakers.
He and his son accompanied
the two victims to the police sta-
tion Sunday to file a harassment
report.
"We do take it seriously, and
we are following up on it," said
Southfield Deputy Police Chief
Lloyd Collins. He said no arrests
have been made, but described
the suspects as three black
youths, two of them about 6 feet
tall and the other short and
stocky. Moshe Lichtenstein, the
"unofficial emissary" of the neigh-
borhood and the head of the
Southfield Village Estates sub-
division, said he learned of the
incident Saturday night and
hastily arranged a group meet-
ing with Southfield Police Chief
Joe Thomas. Concerned resi-
dents are invited to the meeting
at 7:30 p.m. 'Tuesday, May 14, in
the library of Schoenhals Ele-
mentary School.
Last summer, after a spate of
bike and car radio thefts, tire
slashings and other incidents in
the subdivision and the park,
Mr. Lichtenstein put together a
—+ing with Chief Thomas at

which the chief "promised
things.
"Some patrols were beefed up,
but once winter hit, they stopped.
Now that it's spring again, I want
to nip it in the bud," he said.
Last summer, four or five chil-
dren were "attacked," including
one boy who was shoved off his
bicycle, Mr. Lichtenstein said.
"Maybe they see Jews as an
easy target, or it's just kids being
kids. It happened all last year,"
he said.
Deputy Chief Collins said he
is assigning a detective to inves-
tigate the episode and that police
are planning to step up patrols of
the area, including the deck park.
The companion of the man in
the black hat said the teen-agers
didn't make any anti-Semitic re-
marks but used some ugly pro-
fanities.
Members of the Orthodox corn-
munity have complained about
several harassment incidents in
the area. And the park has fall-
en victim to vandals, as well.
Waist-high lights have been rou-
tinely broken, leaving pedestri-
ans walking along pitch-black
paths at night.
"This has changed things," one
of the victims said. "I used to let
my older kids walk in the park,
though not singly. I tell them to
make sure they are in a group.
But we were in a group, too. On
Shabbos, we'll walk, I imagine,
in bigger and bigger groups.
"My attitude and feelings
walking through this week are
going to be different than last
week." ❑

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