Thousands march across Brooklyn Bridge in support of Jewish community

Thousands of people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday as part of an anti-hate rally amid a spate of attacks against the Jewish community. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the march that he planned to propose a new state law that would label hate crimes as domestic terrorism, CBS New York reported.


"These are terrorists and it should be punished as such," Cuomo said.

There were a series of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area at the end 2019 and on December 28, a man stabbed five people as they gathered at a rabbi's home north of New York City to celebrate Hanukkah. Grafton Thomas, 37, was arraigned last week and pleaded not guilty to five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary.