A Florida man was arrested for allegedly making online threats to shoot up a newly opened Orthodox Jewish community.
Jerry Sneed was arrested after he posted photos on social media of a firearm next to the location of Lakefront Estates in Glades County, along with threatening messages, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Sneed, 31, was arrested Wednesday and charged with “written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device,” per the FDLE.
Lakefront Estates CEO Yidel Perlstein commended local law enforcement for acting quickly to arrest the man.
“He’s behind bars, and hopefully that’s a lesson to everyone that you don’t need to wait until it escalates, they immediately acted. They caught him,” Perlstein said.
The community was meant to be a refuge for Orthodox Jews fleeing rising antisemitism in New York under Mayor Mamdani.
“You could feel the antisemitism everywhere; even my community Borough Park changed after Mamdani came in,” a local resident who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons told the Post.
This is not the first time the town has come face to face with antisemitism.
Online hatemongers like Jake Lang and “The Jersey Goy” Jeffrey Walstein descended on the town on October 13 and 14, spewing horrific anti-Jew vitriol to their legions of followers.
“They don’t assimilate, they eat their own food, speak their own language, they worship their own God, they don’t dress like us, they are not Americans,” Lang snarled outside the community in a viral video, referring to the residents.
