The two men who took down the boy who allegedly vandalized the Boston Holocaust memorial on Monday evening were an off-duty Boston firefighter and a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent, said the Boston Fire Department.
According to the department’s spokesperson, Steve MacDonald, the pair was eating at the Union Oyster House when they heard the ordeal going on outside. They then saw a teenager running away from the freshly damaged Holocaust Memorial and chased him down, said MacDonald. When they caught him, they said he complied.
The firefighter did not wish to be identified.
City leaders gathered with religious leaders and a Holocaust survivor on Tuesday afternoon to denounce the vandalism.
They then saw a teenager running away from the freshly damaged Holocaust Memorial and chased him down, said MacDonald. When they caught him, they said he complied.