A New York City Jewish man was repeatedly punched and robbed on the primary day of Hanukkah exterior his residence in Brooklyn.
The suspect approached the sufferer in entrance of 906 Jap Parkway simply after 7:30 p.m., police mentioned. The sufferer, a 40-year-old male, was carrying “traditional Jewish attire,” per the NYPD.
The suspect repeatedly punched the sufferer within the head and stole his cellphone whereas making an antisemitic assertion, police mentioned.
Joshua Merenfeld says he was attacked whereas having fun with a cigarette exterior his residence in Brooklyn. (WNYW )
The suspect fled into the Kingston Avenue and Jap Parkway station. The sufferer was eliminated to Mount Sinai Beth Israel in secure situation. A photograph shared by NYPD exhibits the suspect on the station wearing a black durag, purple scarf, matching black jacket and pants with multicolored designs and brown boots.
The sufferer has been recognized in native studies as 40-year-old Joshua Merenfeld.
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Merenfeld instructed FOX 5 NYC he was having a cigarette exterior his residence when he was attacked from behind.
“He sucker-punched me, pushed me over, assaulted me,” Merenfeld mentioned.
Merenfeld instructed the outlet the attacker knocked him to the bottom, repeatedly kicked him, whereas yelling antisemitic slurs.
NYPD says the suspect fled the scene into the Kingston Ave and Jap Parkway Station. (NYPD)
“I want this person caught,” he mentioned. “This is a dangerous person.”
Thursday’s assault comes amid a steep rise in antisemitic incidents nationwide and world wide amid Israel’s ongoing warfare with Hamas in response to the militant group’s lethal assault on Oct. 7.
Earlier that afternoon, a 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly firing a shotgun into the air and shouting “Free Palestine” exterior a synagogue in New York’s capital.
The suspect was later recognized as Mufid Fawaz Alkhader, an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen who instructed investigators he felt affected by occasions within the Center East.
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The NYPD’s Hate Crime Activity Pressure is investigating Thursday’s assault as an anti-Jewish incident. Anybody with data on this assault is urged to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-8477.
