NEW YORK
NBC New York
By Andrew Siff
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Two people were arrested for disorderly conduct outside a tension-fueled Brooklyn fundraiser in support of a man accused of child molestation Wednesday night, officials said.
The arrests came outside an event raising money for Nechemya Weberman, where protesters rallied against the support of the accused molester, who is regarded as a sort of informal rabbi in his Orthodox Jewish community.
It’s not clear what led to the arrests, and the identities of the people arrested were not released by police.
But protesters outside the fundraiser made clear they were supporting the alleged victim, not her alleged abuser.
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