- The boys, ages 11 and 13, were playing on the sidewalk in Williamsburg on Sunday
- Police have not identified any suspects in the possible hate crime
Two Orthodox Jewish children were brutally beaten by a young man on a Brooklyn sidewalk in an attack caught on video.
The boys, ages 11 and 13, were reportedly playing on the sidewalk in Williamsburg Sunday night when a man got off a Citi Bike and attacked them.
Horrific video of the attack shows the older man kicking and stomping on one of the boys.
The attacker reportedly told the boys to “get off the sidewalk before launching the assault CBS News
Officials said the boys were treated at the scene by EMS and suffered minor cuts to the back of their heads.
The boys, ages 11 and 13, were playing on the sidewalk in Williamsburg on Sunday.
The man is seen stomping on one of the boys at one point. Both children were treated for cuts
The suspect is described as between 18 and 20 years old and was last seen wearing a black shirt, black and white striped shirt, light blue jeans and white sneakers.
Police are still searching for the unidentified man and the attack is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
The suspect is described as between 18 and 20 years old and was last seen wearing a black shirt, black and white striped shirt, light blue jeans and white sneakers.
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso told X, “This assault on a group of Orthodox Jewish children is disgusting.
“Anti-Semitism has no home in Brooklyn, and I am grateful that the Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating this attack. My office is monitoring the situation.
It comes as Jewish and Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups have reported a sharp increase in harassment, bias and physical attacks against their members in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
There has been an increase of almost 50 percent antisemitic crime in New York City for the first four months of this year.
Both New York City and New Jersey have become hotspots for anti-Semitic crimes, according to data released by the New York Police Department.
City officials have reported a 45 percent increase in hate crimes against Jews.
The attacker is seen arriving at the scene on a Citi Bike Sunday night in Williamsburg
As of April 2024, 96 hate incidents have been reported in the Big Apple, a sharp increase from the 66 reported during the same period last year, according to police department statistics.
Police Commissioner Edward Caban said at a pre-Easter security briefing on Wednesday that he explained: “The terrorist attacks on October 7 changed the landscape of public safety and we are still feeling the effects of this terrible day”.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, between October 7 and the end of 2023, the agency recorded 5,204 incidents, more than the total number of incidents in all of 2022.
The attack on the Hasidic boys comes days after a 16-year-old from East Flatbush shot dead in Soho by a suspect who fled on a Citi Bike.
Makhai Brown was leaving his high school in the wealthy area when he tried to break up an argument between two other people and one of them pulled out a gun and shot him in the head.
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