The suspect, who hasn't been identified and remains in custody, broke into the home wearing only his boxers and began yelling hateful comments about Israel and Jews.
Police have launched a hate crime investigation after a man broke into a Studio City home Wednesday morning, shouting hateful comments about Israel and Jews.
That's when the Meyers family, who have four children and are expecting their fifth in two weeks, huddled together inside their home and called 911. Los Angeles police officers quickly swarmed the home and arrested the man, who reportedly was on drugs. "Scary. My wife and the kids got a little bit of trauma because of it. I thought maybe in the street, I'm going to see protests. People scream, but I never thought he was going to come to my house," said Mendel. "Inside to my house. He broke inside to the door."
"I don't know how he knew that they were Israeli, but that's just tremendously alarming," said Studio City resident Kathleen Wood. "Obviously, people are going to be worried about this. It's going to be bad, I think, the reaction, but I don't think this is part of a pattern, and it just sounded to me like he knew them and knew who they were to begin with. It doesn't sound like a random burglary to me.
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