An unhinged dog walker who hates Israel and lives with his TV actress sister on the Upper West Side is terrorizing the neighborhood, repeatedly tearing down posters of Israeli hostages and assaulting anyone who gets in his way. The Post has learned that this will happen.
Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, Mackenzie Watson (nicknamed “McNazi” by many of her neighbors) has been posting hostage flyers and pro-Palestinian propaganda, according to court records and records. He has waged a one-man war against those who remove the stickers. Some of his alleged victims.
“He really hates Jews,” said the 48-year-old resident, who watched Watson's antics and estimated that at least 100 Upper West Siders “had bad run-ins with him.” .
She also spoke of Ms. Watson, who lives in Nabe with her 29-year-old sister. jamie lynn watsonwho appeared on FX's “What We Do in the Shadows.” Judd Apatow movie “Please Don't Destroy: Foggy's Treasure'' —You seem more worried about tearing up posters than taking care of your dog while walking.
“He sometimes has four dogs. They are strapped to his waist and he just uses both hands at the same time to remove the stickers from every corner,” the woman added.
Watson's latest rants include tearing an “anti-Semitic” anti-genocide sticker from a light pole on the corner of West 103 West, then tailing and harassing a 15-year-old girl and her 56-year-old mother. This includes an incident in June. The frightened mother remembered the street and West End Avenue.
Watson then shoved his cell phone camera in their faces and stalked them for five blocks as they tried to run away from him, police said.
“I don't care about the hostages, I don't care about the thousands of dead babies,” her mother recalled Watson screaming. “Fuck you, you son of a bitch! Now go fuck yourselves! Zionists, eat! Kill yourself!”
Later that day, the mother went to the NYPD's 24th Precinct to file a complaint against Watson, where she encountered another neighbor, Gary Paul, who was doing the same thing.
Mr. Paul, a 71-year-old architect, told the Post that he had a number of hostile encounters with Mr. Watson over stickers and signs. On at least two of those occasions, anti-Israel fanatics chased Watson for blocks.
“It’s not safe for us,” Paul said.
In April, Watson sadistically pointed a cell phone camera at the face of a 45-year-old woman who had posted a sticker raising awareness for Israeli and American hostages held by Hamas. Zionist bitch!” he shouted. Zionists, yeah! ”
The woman said she carried pepper spray in case she encountered him again.
“I shouldn't live like this,” she said.
In November 2023, he pushed Joseph Goodrich, 32, to the ground and punched him, dislocating his shoulder, according to a criminal complaint and the victim's attorney, Peter Gordon. Goodrich allegedly tried to stop an anti-Israel extremist from removing a hostage poster. .
Watson was charged with assault, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which specializes in soft crimes, slapped him on the wrist and ordered him to be charged with second-degree harassment in June if he completes his rant. He was allowed to take a plea bargain on the condition of conditional release. I took a management course and stayed out of trouble for a year.
Less than two months later, Watson was arrested and charged with violating his plea agreement by scratching a 59-year-old man in the face and kicking him in the shin after he intervened in an argument with a woman who objected to walking her dog. Ta. They tore down hostage posters at Broadway and West 100th Street, according to the NYPD and a criminal complaint.
The prosecutor's office charged Watson with assault and harassment and asked a judge to vacate his conditional release in the first assault case, according to court records.
Watson shut the door on reporters at her home on Friday, saying only that “genocide is happening” and “that's what we should be concerned about.”
Watson is the latest in a long list of New Yorkers who have come under fire for vandalizing Israeli hostage posters and similar signs since the Hamas terrorist attacks 14 months ago, including those who have been accused of destroying Israeli hostage posters and similar signs. It also includes employees of the Adamu administration, including those whose work fills the gap between the two.
After the Post exposed Nala Sutherland last week (she was initially only required to take a multicultural training class and had a record of her disciplinary action on her work file), Mayor Eric Adams intervened and ordered her to be taken without pay. He was suspended indefinitely.
Additional reporting by Tina Moore
