BY KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
Police arrested a 15-yearold
for allegedly assaulting
a 24-year-old Jewish man
in hate crime in Bedford-
Stuyvesant last Friday.
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 fl eeing 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-yearold
man reported that an
unknown attacker punched
him in the right ear at Myrtle
and Marcy avenues.
“Thank you @NYPDHateCrimes
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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 graffi ti
spray-painted on the sides
of two Yeshiva school buses
and a residential building
in Williamsburg. Video
footage showed a group of
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 spraypainted
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.
The suspect. NYPD
The NYPD arrested a 15-year-old in connection with an anti-Semitic assault
on Thursday. Getty Images
‘It’s so tragic’
Teenager arrested for anti-Semitic attack in Bed-Stuy
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