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Atlantis Police arrest man in connection to distributing antisemitic flyers, county leaders discuss hate crimes
Story by Sooji Nam • Yesterday 8:07 PM
Atlantis Police arrested 33-year-old Nicholas Bysheim for obstructing a law enforcement officer without violence on Saturday.
Investigators got reports of people in a U-Haul pickup truck tossing antisemitic flyers in the community Saturday. They soon found the truck on South Country Club Drive and saw a man throwing plastic bags with flyers onto people's lawns.
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"We can’t stop them from distributing, however, littering is littering. And we wanted to cite him for that. That’s not an arrestable offense. However, when he failed to identify himself so we could issue the citation, that is an arrestable offense," Atlantis Police Chief Robert Mangold told WPBF 25 News.
They soon learned that the suspect is from Maryland. He joined two other people, including the leader of the group Goyim Defense League that weekend.
"I was concerned that they came into my community; obviously it’s a very quiet, primarily residential community," Mangold said. "We don’t appreciate your hate, don’t want you here."
The flyers that were distributed in Atlantis were the same papers that were tossed in Lake Worth neighborhoods over the weekend.
Investigators say they are also familiar faces behind a similar incident in Boca Raton in early January.
"There was a BOLO (Be on the lookout) put out by Boca Raton PD and GDL…Goyim Defense League…was identified in that BOLO. And those were the same people that we dealt with on this last Saturday evening," Mangold said.
WPBF 25 News reached out to West Palm Beach Police on whether these individuals were also behind the projection of swastikas on the AT&T building in West Palm Beach, and have not yet heard back.
The executive director of the nonprofit, StopAntisemitism, sent WPBF 25 News a statement in part below.
"StopAntisemitism commends the Atlantis Police Department for the arrest of Nicholas Bysheim, member of a dangerous white supremacist group called the Goyim Defense League…Bysheim’s dissemination of antisemitism is threatening and he must be held accountable," Liora Rez responded.
The suspect had been taken to the Palm Beach County jail.
"He was released two hours after we transported him there, on his own recognizance. It’s kind of ironic because in the morning, PBSO (Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office) employees found that this hate literature has been distributed on their vehicles," Mangold said.
And in order to crack down on antisemitic incidents like these, Palm Beach County leaders had a roundtable discussion Tuesday afternoon. Officials gathered to have a conversation on what laws or ordinances can be in place to prevent antisemitic cases from rising.
33-year-old Nicholas Bysheim= sounds jewish
feels like ive seen this fag before