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Alleged antisemitic litterbugs strike again in West Palm Beach and residents are up in arms.
"It was disgusting. It was vile. It was clearly antisemitic, clearly has no place in the Old Northwood neighborhood."
A woman named "Kathy," who lives in the community where more than 200 homes were hit with flyers in plastic bags and weighed down by pellets, says she went around with trash bags and cleaned up a couple of blocks worth of the materials.
Some of the flyers blame Jews for COVID and others criticize a bill moving through the Legislature that would make it a crime to distribute any material evidencing "religious or ethnic animus." HB-269 was filed by Republican State Rep. Mike Caruso.
Saturday's incident was the second time that Old Northwood was struck by a group of men driving a U-Haul truck.
The five were given citations for littering and police spokesman Mike Jachles says they didn't take it well.
"They started calling our officers different names, including our African-American officers...using racial epithets, the n-word."
One of the individuals cited for littering is Nicholas Bysheim, a 33-year old from Maryland who already faces a charge of resisting an officer after a similar incident in the town of Atlantis back in January.