New York City Police have arrested a suspect in connection with an unprovoked antisemitic attack on a Jewish man in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn last weekend.
Last Friday night an observant Jewish man was punched in the face by a man who got out of a van to attack him, while a second man remained behind in the vehicle to film the incident.
The attack took place at Avenue L and East 32nd Street at around 10:30 pm. The suspect was taken into custody Thursday morning, NYPD said.
The StopAntisemitism watchdog group tweeted out a video of the attack stating “Yet ANOTHER antisemitic assault in Brooklyn”.
Yet ANOTHER antisemitic assault in Brooklyn - an Orthodox Jewish teen gets punched in the face by assailant who hops into a van trailing the two after the attack. pic.twitter.com/kHgG53cz9B
— StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) February 13, 2022
“Make no mistake, an attack on our Jewish community is an attack on every New Yorker,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a tweeted statement earlier this week.
The incident is under investigation by the NYPD Hate Crimes Unit.