Two women reportedly yelled anti-Semitic epithets at a Hasidic man in Williamsburg and then attacked him when he called 911.
Edited by: TJVNews.com
Two women attacked a Hasidic man in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon, police said, according to WCBS 880 AM.
The 22-year-old man was attacked near Gerry Street and Broadway in Williamsburg around 1:00 p.m., the report said.
The women, ages 24 and 34, yelled anti-Semitic epithets at the man, and when he called 911, they attacked him with his own phone, according to police.
“They took him in, they threw him down to the ground and broke his phone and threw the phone to his head,” witness Moses Weiser told CBS2.
The women were arrested a short time later and are expected to be charged.
The attack is the latest in a series of anti-Semitic assaults in the city and is at least the 12th attack since December 23, according to CBS2.
Former Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who has been following the anti-Semitic attacks closely, tweeted what he said was a photo of the two suspects.
The latest attacks follow the stabbing attack at a Hanukkah party in Monsey, New York on Saturday night.
That attack followed a string of anti-Semitic assaults in New York, including last Friday morning, when three young Jewish women were attacked in Brooklyn.
The victims, aged 22-31, were attacked with anti-Semitic shouts and violence while walking in Crown Heights.
While the suspect was arrested and charged with harassment and committing a hate crime, she was reportedly later freed without bail and committed another assault before being arrested and freed on bail again.
In the wake of the spate of attacks, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city will beef up NYPD patrols of Jewish neighborhoods while introducing anti-bias-crime programs in public schools.
The Guardian Angels crime-prevention group said it would start patrolling parts of Brooklyn on Sunday following a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the borough.
Curtis Sliwa, who founded Guardian Angels in New York City in 1979, said patrols would start in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, and expand to Williamsburg and Borough Park later in the day.
Hours earlier, on Saturday night, five people were stabbed in an attack at a Hanukkah event in Monsey, N.Y., upstate in Rockland County.
“These attacks are taking place, and the cops have not been proactive at all,” said Sliwa on Saturday. “It comes from City Hall and the mayor. He’s been just apathetic.”
The Guardian Angels first appeared on the New York City scene in the late 1970s when the violent crime rate in the city was literally spiraling out of control. They are a private, unarmed crime-prevention group.
Under the leadership of Brooklyn-born Sliwa, the Guardian Angels ended up patrolling subways, streets and other high-risk public venues. Their conscientious attempts at significantly diminishing the crime rate in New York were quite successful but Sliwa always met with constant opposition from former Mayor Edward I Koch, who dismissed the group as ragtag vigilantes and wanted the NYPD to exclusively deal with criminal matters throughout the city.
When the now infamous Crown Heights riots erupted in the summer of 1991, Sliwa and his Guardian Angels were called upon to keep the peace after yeshiva student Yankel Rosenbaum from Australia was brutally murdered by African American rioters. All of Crown Heights has morphed into a tinderbox of sorts as former Mayor David Dinkins did nothing to quell the riots and for several days the streets of Crown Heights were ablaze in violence. (INN)
