A teenager has been charged with a hate crime after being arrested over an antisemitic act he committed in October.
On October 20th, Boro Park Shomrim was alerted to an incident at 18th Avenue and 62nd Street, with the caller reporting that a suspect had snatched a hat off the head of an Orthodox Jewish man.
Shomrim members obtained and reviewed footage from the scene and managed to identify the suspect’s vehicle – including the license plate number.
On Wednesday, NYPD officers from the 62nd Precinct arrested the perp after he surrendered himself to them. He was charged with two counts of grand larceny, one of them as a hate crime, as well as criminal possession of stolen property.
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6 Responses
Is he out on the street again with a voucher?
Would a shtreimil also constitute a hate crime?
It says in seforim that every time a גוי insults a yid and the yid is quiet he is מקרב the גאולה and if he answers back he is מרחק the גאולה because the whole point of גלות is to be משועבד under the גויים and to be נכנע under them and that’s our כפרה that אברהם אבינו choose by ברית בין הבתרים. I think that he should have just let it go and not say anything, no one got hurt it was just some stupid teenager making some prank you don’t have to make much a עסק out of every little thing.
Never mind, I didn’t realize he actually stole the hat.
Hate crime or hat crime?
5783, oh yeah? Which “seforim” say that?