A Baltimore prosecutor has dismissed a felony assault charge against a member of a Jewish neighborhood watch group who was accused of striking a black teenager in November.
After appearing at a preliminary hearing Thursday morning in district court, Eliyahu Eliezer Werdesheim, 23, still faces misdemeanor charges. But the state’s attorney’s office did not pursue the most serious charge against the community college student, who is also a former Israeli special-forces soldier.
Werdesheim no longer participates in Shomrim, whose Orthodox Jewish members patrol Northwest Baltimore, said his attorney Andrew I. Alperstein.
(Source: Baltimore Sun)
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The irony is that the two stories right below this one on your website discuss the mortal danger involved in subduing a criminal. Police officer killed.
What do they expect Shomrim to do, take a bullet?