NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a number of antisemitic incidents that occurred over the weekend.
New footage launched Sunday evening reveals the suspects police are on the lookout for in two circumstances in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
CBS2’s Lisa Rozner spoke with some residents who mentioned the suspects had been taking movies of the focused victims.
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Surveillance video taken Friday at round 11:35 p.m. on Avenue L close to East thirty second Avenue reveals somebody in a hoodie menacing a 22-year-old Jewish man earlier than police say the suspect slapped him within the face, knocking off his yarmulke.
The suspect then ran again into a gray mini-van. Flatbush Shomrim security patrol mentioned the driving force was taking video of the entire thing.
“And so they had been laughing the entire time,” coordinator Bob Moskowitz mentioned.
However now, clear video of the 2 suspects and their car has been launched by the NYPD.
The Flatbush Shomrim coordinator says about quarter-hour after the primary incident the suspects pulled right into a gasoline station at Nostrand Avenue and Kings Freeway. The coordinator mentioned whereas they had been getting gasoline in addition they focused a 14-year-old strolling by who was recognizably Orthodox Jewish.
“As quickly as they noticed it, immediately considered one of them got here working once more with the telephone,” Moskowitz mentioned. “Began speaking to him and threatening him, you understand, with a threatening voice and began chasing him. They ran midway throughout into the intersection in Kings Freeway after which they let him go, however the child was petrified.”
@NYPDHateCrimes is investigating this assault, and make no mistake an assault on our Jewish neighborhood is an assault on each New Yorker. We are going to catch the perpetrators of this assault.
Please contact the NYPD with any info. https://t.co/Z5eNveEOVW
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) February 13, 2022
Mayor Eric Adams tweeted, partly, “Make no mistake, an assault on our Jewish neighborhood is an assault on each New Yorker. We are going to catch the perpetrators of this assault.”
He additionally referred to as antisemitic graffiti left Saturday evening on the window of a Jewish-owned dental lab in Forest Hills, Queens “Outrageous.”
Rabbi Ashie Schrier mentioned he referred to as authorities after he seen the scrawling of an expletive subsequent to the phrase “Jews” on Harrow Avenue.
It was simply after 7 p.m. and he was together with his 6-year-old son.
“One thing simply caught my eye and I seemed over and was extraordinarily disenchanted in what I noticed. My son, who’s 6, who just lately discovered learn, began asking me some new questions. I used to be simply explaining, sadly, there’s plenty of hate on the market,” Schreier mentioned. “Our job is to struggle that hate with the love.”
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The dental lab proprietor informed CBS2 somebody was working inside and the lights had been on when it occurred, however that particular person didn’t see the incident.
Adams took to Twitter and mentioned, “We received’t let this vicious hatred go unanswered in our metropolis.”
The Anti-Defamation League tracks antisemitic incidents nationwide.
“We responded to incidents in 47 states and New York was primary throughout the nation by way of antisemitic incidents by far, and inside New York, the overwhelming majority of incidents happen in New York Metropolis,” mentioned Scott Richman, govt director of the ADL of New York & New Jersey.
“We are able to’t let this be the norm as a result of it’s going to … individuals saying, ‘Oh, they’re getting used to it.’ We are able to’t get used to any of this. Hatred will not be one thing to get used to,” Councilwoman Lynn Schulman mentioned.
Within the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn assault final weekend, the ADL is providing a reward of as much as $5,000 for info resulting in an arrest and conviction. The director informed CBS2 rewards are solely issued in excessive circumstances and to offer you an concept of how typically that is taking place, the ADL has supplied rewards about 9 instances over the previous few months.
