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Bail was set at $30,000 for Logan Jones, 18, who was accused of assaulting a couple on their way to synagogue.

By: JNS & TJVNews.com

A teenager from Staten Island, N.Y., has been indicted on hate-crime charges for allegedly assaulting a Jewish man as he and his wife walked to a synagogue in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Logan Jones, 18, was charged on Wednesday with third-degree assault as a hate crime, third-degree assault, third-degree menacing as a hate crime, third-degree menacing, third-degree attempted assault as a hate crime, third-degree attempted assault and second-degree harassment, reported NBC New York.

Bail was set at $30,000, and he is ordered to return to court on June 24.

On April 1, Jones and a group of five people allegedly approached a 21-year-old Jewish man, who was dressed in traditional Chassidic attire, and his wife as they made their way to Shabbat services at a synagogue in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood.

Jones punched the Jewish man in the face, according to prosecutors, and joined two others in kicking the victim after he fell to the ground. The group allegedly fled the scene after the victim’s wife asked a bystander to call the police.

The victim — who was dressed in traditional Hasidic attire when the attack occurred — suffered severe head and body pain, an abrasion to the cheek, as well as bruising to the face and mouth, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. Jones’s bail was set at $30,000 and he is due to appear in court again on June 24.

“Without warning or provocation, this defendant allegedly assaulted an innocent man simply because of his Jewish faith,” said District Attorney Eric Gonzalez in a statement. “Crimes that target individuals because of their religion, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation are a threat to everything we stand for here in Brooklyn. We will now seek to hold the defendant accountable.”

A report on the Algemeiner.com web site indicated that in yet another instance of an overtly anti-Semitic attack, Eric Redding, the 35-year-old who was arrested in connection with an attack in early May upon an Orthodox Jewish man in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, is facing assault, aggravated harassment, menacing and hate crime charges, according to the New York Police Department. Redding is accused of punching and kicking the 32-year-old man in broad daylight at the intersection of President Street and Utica Avenue while he hurled antisemitic insults at him, according to police.

Algemeiner.com also reported that police in Brooklyn are investigating whether an arson attack on a Black-owned hair salon may have been a hate crime. Surveillance video from the salon in the Fort Greene neighborhood showed a man allegedly painting swastikas on the building before setting it alight.

The Anti-Defamation League recently reported that, “in 2021, the number of reported incidents increased 24 percent over 2020 numbers, rising from 336 to 416. These numbers also include a spike in antisemitic incidents driven by extreme anti-Israel sentiments during the May 2021 Israel-Hamas war. During this time, incidents motivated by anti-Zionist sentiments included assault, arson threats, and harassment.”

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