Feb 05 2015 4:30 pm

Hitler-themed Tweets sent by a Hitler-dressed Jackson teen, and daughter of a State trooper, was ruled by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office today as being a tremendously inappropriate thing to do, but carried no criminal weight.

“I in no way want to downplay the seriousness of their actions, but this is just teenagers doing tremendously inappropriate things and showed a total lapse in judgment on their part,” Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Spokesman Al Della Fave told TLS today.

The tweets, which Della Fave says appeared to be teens thinking they were tweeting between themselves, prompted a large stir on the social media site.

One of the tweets by the Hitler-dressed girl (pictured) showed a picture of Rita’s Ice Cream shop in Jackson – a shop frequented by Orthodox Lakewood residents – and stated “perfect bombing time.”

Other tweets from the teens included other blatant anti-Semitic statements, but after review, the Prosecutor’s Office ruled there was no credible threat to press charges.

“There were no threats whatsoever, and there has been no incidents since the January 15 event,” Della Fave said.

Avi Schnall, the Director of Agudath Israel of New Jersey told TLS he respected the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office.

“We have great faith and confidence in the Ocean County Prosecutors decision not to press charges,”Schnall told TLS. “The Prosecutor’s office does a great job protecting the community and we are very grateful.”

Schnall added however, “Some people might dismiss these pictures and say that these are just immature teenagers fooling around, but when Hitler becomes another costume that teenagers dress up in, and bombing a group of Jews becomes humorous, that tells us something is very wrong with our society, and we need to be cautious.”

Some have criticized the Prosecutor’s Office for showing ‘favoritism’ due to the fact that the girl was the daughter of a New Jersey State Trooper, but Della Fave said that played no role in their decision.

“There are no statues against making horrifically offensive and insensitive comments,” Della Fave said.

To prevent such incidents from occurring in the future, Schnall suggested that the school hold an open discussion to address the issue.

“Our hope is that the Jackson school officials would be willing to create an open discussion between the students and members of the Orthodox community. Such a conversation would create positive relationships between the communities and that can be most productive,” Schnall said.

Della Fave says the issue was handled internally, and the teens were disciplined by both their parents and school.

[TLS]

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