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COURIER LIFE, F 34 EBRUARY 18-24, 2022
Teen arrested for
anti-Semitic attack
in Bed-Stuy
BY KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
Police arrested a 15-year-old for
allegedly assaulting a 24-year-old
Jewish man in hate crime in Bedford
Stuyvesant last Friday, Feb. 4.
The New York City Police Department’s
Hate Crimes Task Force said
on Twitter that the teen had been
charged with assault and committing
a hate crime after being caught
on video approaching two men
dressed in traditional Hasidic clothing
as they walked down Stockton
Street near Marcy Avenue just before
10:30 pm on Feb. 4 and punching
one in the face, then turning and
fleeing back down Stockton Street.
Police said the victim refused medical
attention at the scene.
The NYPD did not have additional
information about the arrest
or the attack as of Thursday afternoon.
It is unclear whether the suspect
was also connected with a similar
attack that occurred just ten
minutes earlier on Friday evening,
when a 44-year-old man reported
that an unknown attacker punched
him in the right ear at Myrtle and
Marcy avenues.
“Thank you @NYPDHateCrimes
for the quick action and arrest,”
the United Jewish Organizations
of Williamsburg tweeted. “It’s so
tragic that a 15 year old has been
indoctrinated to commit such a
crime. We are grateful that @NYCMayor
and @NYPDnews work tirelessly
to stop the hate.”
On Saturday, Feb. 5, just a day after
the assaults, neighbors discovered
swastikas and other graffiti
spray-painted on the sides of two Yeshiva
school buses and a residential
building in Williamsburg.
Video footage showed a group of
“This breaks my damn
heart. We are developing
an action plan to respond
to this torrent of anti-
Semitism. We must do
four young men believed to be connected
to the crime walking down
the street and pausing to crouch beside
a building with what appears
to be a can of spray paint. The vandals
are wanted for Aggravated
Harassment, according to NYPD
Crime Stoppers.
Days later, more swastikas were
found spray-painted on a building
at Division Avenue and Roebling
Street and on a grocery store at
Hooper Street and Harrison Avenue.
More than 100 anti-Semitic
crimes have been reported in New
York City every year since at least
2018. On Wednesday evening, at
about the same time that the painted
swastikas were discovered, Manhattan
councilmember Julie Menin
was hosting a town hall meeting in
partnership with the NYPD and the
Anti-Defamation League about reporting
and stopping anti-Semitic
hate crimes.
“This hate breaks my damn
heart,” tweeted North Brooklyn
councilmember Lincoln Restler on
Wednesday. “We are developing an
action plan to respond to this torrent
of anti-Semitism. We must do
better.”
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