Anti-Semitic Graffiti Blitz In Brooklyn Linked to Ex-NYPD Officer — Charged With Hate Crime

Caught on Camera: Michael Setiawan's hate was blamed on a "mental breakdown."

Authorities charged Michael Setiawan with 19 counts each of criminal mischief as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime, accusing him of scrawling more than 20 crude messages such as 'F--k you Jews' and 'Jews ain't s--t' throughout Borough Park, home to a large Orthodox Jewish community. Setiawan had previously worked for in the 69th Precinct before leaving the NYPD in 2007.


By Thomas Tracy , Eli Rosenberg , Simone Weichselbaum
An ex-NYPD cop, apparently in the throes of a mental meltdown, has been busted for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti in one of Brooklyn’s largest Orthodox communities.

Michael Setiawan, 36, who left the police force in 2007, was accused Sunday of spraying swastikas and hate-filled words on the walls of a Jewish school, three other buildings and 15 cars in Borough Park.

Video surveillance cameras caught a bald man believed to be Setiawan wielding a spray-paint can during Saturday night’s vandalism rampage that left residents terrified.

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