Assault on Most Reverend Manuel A. Cruz, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark. Warning - this video contains footage that viewers may find disturbing. TAPintoNewark has obtained footage of …More
Assault on Most Reverend Manuel A. Cruz, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark.
Warning - this video contains footage that viewers may find disturbing. TAPintoNewark has obtained footage of the assault of an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark during Mass at Newark's Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The Most Reverend Manuel A. Cruz, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, was offering opening prayers at a Saturday afternoon service commemorating the life of baseball great Roberto Clemente, remembered by Latinos in Newark, especially those from his native Puerto Rico, for his tragic death in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972. The sanctity of the mass was shattered when a man wearing a white robe over a red suit shambled up to the altar from the crowd, reached Bishop Cruz and struck the 63-year-old in the face, knocking him backwards until he fell on the altar. TAPintoNewark witnessed the assailant's …More
Warning - this video contains footage that viewers may find disturbing. TAPintoNewark has obtained footage of the assault of an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark during Mass at Newark's Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The Most Reverend Manuel A. Cruz, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, was offering opening prayers at a Saturday afternoon service commemorating the life of baseball great Roberto Clemente, remembered by Latinos in Newark, especially those from his native Puerto Rico, for his tragic death in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1972. The sanctity of the mass was shattered when a man wearing a white robe over a red suit shambled up to the altar from the crowd, reached Bishop Cruz and struck the 63-year-old in the face, knocking him backwards until he fell on the altar. TAPintoNewark witnessed the assailant's …More
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@Dr Stuart Reiss: I was also thinking about the communion rail.
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he drove his pink Cadillac with a faux-zebra skin interior.
I am not disturbed by the video. I am 'disturbed' by what this meshuggeneh goy had done to a pedigree automobile. For that alone, he should have been arrested. 
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he drove his pink Cadillac with a faux-zebra skin interior.
I am not disturbed by the video. I am 'disturbed' by what this meshuggeneh goy had done to a pedigree automobile. For that alone, he should have been arrested.
I am not disturbed by the video. I am 'disturbed' by what this meshuggeneh goy had done to a pedigree automobile. For that alone, he should have been arrested.
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...that police officer had the sense to follow him to within feet of the bishop, but foolish enough to be a foot behind the violent man. Or is that how the law works? you have to witness the crime before intervening? Maybe they thought he was just looking for a place to complete a few sets of push ups.