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Thu Jun 1, 2017, 01:29 PM Jun 2017

Kent Police Under Fire for Appalling Non-Response to...Rock-Throwing Assault on Jewish Family...

A British NGO is calling for an investigation following a reported incident at a Kent beach on Sunday in which a Jewish family was pelted with stones by a group of teenagers and police failed to respond.

According to reports, the assault took place at Minster Beach on the Isle of Sheppey. Members of a London Jewish family — including two parents and their five daughters, between the ages of eight and 15 — were targeted by five teens who ran toward them throwing rocks and shouting, “Jews.”

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said in a statement, “As the attack continued and the parents tried to shelter their children, the family called Kent Police, but the emergency operator advised them that no officers would be dispatched, despite the assailants remaining at the scene. Instead, they were told that an officer would contact them the following week to ‘investigate.'”

https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/05/29/kent-police-under-fire-for-appalling-non-response-to-scene-of-antisemitic-rock-throwing-assault-on-jewish-family-at-beach/

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