Homeless man damages window and ATM at commercial property, Jersey City NJ


A homeless man entered a commercial property near John F. Kennedy Blvd, shouted at a worker, repeatedly punched and broke a window, and damaged an ATM, causing approximately $4,100 in property damage. The incident was recorded on video.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
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Transcript:
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At approximately 7.34 hours, video cameras here show a homeless male, wearing a black coat, gray hoodie, canned pants, came up, started shouting at the worker that was here, repeatedly punched the window, breaking the window, and punched the ATM machine, causing damage to the screen, approximate total amount.
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This is going to be $4,100.
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If I could just get a time of file, if you could...
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Notified South Florida, please.
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Push four.
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Four, go ahead.
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All right, you can put us off. Can we get a call back? We're not seeing anything.
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Must be.
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Damage to commercial property, near John F. Kennedy Blvd, the five parts off there.
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Video footage shows a homeless man entering the store about 7, 34 hours, started to shout out one of the workers there, punch the window repeatedly and wind up breaking it, punching ATM causing damage to the screen.
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$4,100 in value.
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Hi, I received, for a moment if we have video available.
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Five nice questions.
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So I have cameras. Hi, I just, um,
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what is the sort of our image and is a video available to download now?
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All right, so the individual work here is unsure how to work the system to be able to get a copy of the video.
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I received, what's the value of the damage? $4,100.
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I just notified Detective Commander.
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Detective Commander for Channel One.
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That's such one.
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That's the 20.
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Good morning. Near John F. Kennedy Blvd, criminal mischief.
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Homeless guy entered the store this morning.
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Shouted at one of worker there.
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Punched the window repeatedly and broke it.
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Punched an ATM screen.
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Damaging it as well.
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$4,100 in item.
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Video available.
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Location mentioned:
Near John F. Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305
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