Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

announcer: In the criminal justice system,

sexually based offenses

are considered especially heinous.

In New York City, the dedicated detectives

who investigate these vicious felonies

are members of an elite squad

known as the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

- We sit here and we talk, we post, stream.

We go to rallies, bust a few heads.

But who are we kidding?

We are losing.

Every day, it's more of them and less of us.

Over and over, we sound the alarm

and it gets drowned out.

And we know why.

It's because they control the media.

The agenda, banks, politicians.

We are in a war

for our very survival.

We will not give this nation up to you.

We will not let you destroy what we have built,

what we own.

Our country was founded under the principle

of one nation under God.

Raghead!

A Christian God.

It's time to make that the law of the land.

And if you won't assimilate...

Then you better get the hell out.

Brothers, code red. It's on.

We're going in. The first wave has begun.

And each one of you has to make up your own mind.

- But I've already made up mine.

We're going in, brothers.

Keep your eyes on Jew York City.

'Cause it's about to get very real.

- That was beautiful, wasn't it?

Yeah.

Hey, can I open one present tonight?

Just one?

- Don't you wanna wait for Santa, Noah?

Mom.

Benson.

Chief.

No, I've been at a service.

How many?

- A multi-borough wave of hate crime attacks

on citizens, a synagogue, a halal restaurant,

and Jewish-owned businesses has the city on edge

this Christmas Eve.

We start our coverage...

- What the hell is wrong with people?

Don't get me started.

- Sorry to drag you in on Christmas Eve.

We kept it quiet, but the head of Hate Crimes is out,

and the new captain just got here.

He wasn't even supposed to start until January.

- So Chief McGrath has asked SVU to augment.

- Yeah, so it's all hands on deck

so let's move, huh?

- We're up to nine separate incidents

across three boroughs.

I don't know if we're looking at

a surge or a spree or both.

And the cavalry is here.

- Captain Benson, Captain Murphy.

Declan.

Wow, I didn't know you were back.

I've barely unpacked.

- Nice to see you. Welcome home.

- Oh, good, you all know each other.

- Yeah. - Mostly.

- Filling in the blanks, Khaldun.

We've worked together.

- Great, who's next? Detective Parlota-Goldstein.

Those are both me.

- And Ruz. We've met.

In the Bronx.

- And I'm so glad that you're out of there

and that you landed here.

So...Chief.

We're looking at a full-scale mobilization?

- Yeah, double shifts, no days off.

We don't stop until we close this thing out.

- All these people attacked on Christmas Eve

because of who they are, what they look like,

who they worship. We can't have that.

Not in New York City.

- Thanks, Commissioner. Tell the embassies we're on it.

- Embassies? - Brace yourself.

We're gonna be riding this wave until it breaks.

- Captain Benson, why is Special Victims here?

- SVU will be working with the Hate Crimes taskforce.

New York has 9 million people

and over 2,000 different identities.

And as Captain Murphy says,

we cannot have this in our city.

- We will push the investigative envelope

until those responsible are in handcuffs.

Thank you.

Detective, where are we?

No place good.

Gang of kids, male, Black, causing trouble.

- Okay, so there are witnesses.

- A small minyan was arriving for prayers

when two cobblestones crashed through.

Minor injuries, cuts.

One widower was matzah-boxed to Mercy, chest pains.

Excuse me, detective?

Sorry, private EMS.

- Synagogue have a security system?

- No. Bakery across the street does.

But they're closed for Shabbos.

- Not for this, they're not. - Yeah.

- We'll walk the rabbi to the baker's apartment.

It's the Sabbath, the Orthodox don't use their phones.

I'm aware.

Look, if you can't find the baker,

have TARU and ESU break in. Find that video.

- Out of nowhere, this guy comes from behind

on a motorcycle,

stabs me in the back,

pulls off my turban.

- Did you get a look at him? Was he Black or white?

I saw the back of his helmet.

And--and the plate. Ohio.

You sure?

- It's my job. I drive all day.

I'm sure.

Any chance this is personal?

You owe money, romantic problems?

I'm a family man.

I work 70 hours a week.

I go home to eat, sleep, meditate,

try to do my good deeds.

I did nothing to provoke this.

- We know. We just have to ask.

- You ever had any problems with your customers?

- These bridge-and-tunnel kids say stupid things.

Call me Aladdin, tell me to make my car fly.

This was different. - How so?

Just before he stabbed me,

he called me a raghead.

"Osama,

go back to the desert, you sand..."

the N-word.

Thank you, Mr. Singh.

So you ever seen this before,

Sikhs getting mistaken for Arabs and Muslims?

- These kinds of criminals are no geniuses.

Doesn't make them any less dangerous.

- Tell your mother we're doing everything we can

to find those responsible. - Yes, thank you very much.

Holocaust survivor.

Daughter said she made it through Auschwitz

but might not survive this.

- Security cameras in their building?

- Nope, vandal got lucky or knows his turf.

Shabbos and Christmas Eve? Smart night for a spree.

Hey, listen, I was hoping we'd get a chance to talk

before we got thrown into this whole thing.

- Me too. But it can wait.

'Scuse me, officers.

- Help you? - Do you have any leads?

Everyone saying it's a gang thing.

Some Black kids.

You live in the neighborhood?

Yeah, a few blocks away.

I was out walking Danika last night.

It was quiet. - Beautiful dog.

You see any kids out?

- Yep, the ones from the projects.

They're always roaming through.

They're looking for packages left on doorsteps.

- Was this graffiti here then? - No, I woulda noticed.

- What--what time were you out walking Danika?

- 10:00--hey, she likes you. - Hmm.

You have a dog?

I have a very full house.

So you're out with her most nights then?

- Yeah, unless it rains. She's a Ridgeback.

- Doesn't like the rain. Mine either.

Listen, if you-- you see anything,

give me a call.

- You got it. All right, come on, sweetie.

Did you see who did this?

A white van driving away?

One person or more than one?

White or Black?

- We were trying to put the fire out.

- Owner didn't see much. A white van.

- Arson said it was a Molotov cocktail.

Easy to make.

The kids at the synagogue could have done it.

But they hit Williamsburg.

Manhattan, this is a different planet.

One stop on the M train.

And a vic got pushed onto the street

right near the Marcy Avenue station.