New York Daily News reports:
A Jewish man who was a member of a Hasidic civilian patrol in Brooklyn pleaded guilty Friday to assaulting a black man with a police baton in a plea deal that tossed out a controversial hate crime charge.
Yitzhak Shuchat will serve one day in jail and perform 25 days of community service as a penalty for the 2008 attack on Andrew Charles in Crown Heights.
Shuchat had fled to Israel after learning he was under investigation and indicted for assault as a hate crime by then-Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. He served 70 days in an Israeli jail while awaiting extradition and was on house arrest in Israel before he was hauled back to the U.S. earlier this year.
“Today’s guilty plea is an appropriate disposition of this matter because the facts of the case simply did not support a hate crime and there were no serious injuries,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson.
Shuchat, 31, a former member of the crime patrol Shmira, allegedly struck Charles on the arm with a nightstick. There was no allegation of anyone making racial epithets.
Defense lawyer Paul Batista said prosecutors never provided him with any evidence that would support the hate crime charge.
“I think justice was done,” Batista said, “and it avoids a trial that would be extremely unpleasant for the Crown Heights community in which there would have been racial overtones and there certainly was no racism on the part of my client.”
Charles, who was 20 at the time of the attack and the son of an NYPD cop, had told authorities he was first attacked by a white man on a bicycle who doused him with pepper spray. Then, Shuchat arrived on the scene in an SUV and whacked him with the baton.
What’s yitzis gofund site?
Very happy for him and his family!!!!
He pleaded guilty.
In fact, Andrew Charles can now sue Shuchat.
Every one that I have been speaking to. I can see the excitement ,and joy they have for yitzchak shuchat.
I’m so happy he is finally free. The stress he went through must of been unbareable. He should sue the heck out of the DA office NYPD and Mr so called victim Andrew charles
Delighted!Thrilled!Elated for you Yitzi.Go home and enjoy your family and may Hashem bless you with abundant revealed blessings from here on throughout your life.
Freilichen chanukah
Where’s the rest of the story? Why did Mr. Schuchat strike this ‘Afro-American…he had a good reason…biased reporting.
that why I vote
Boruch Hashem he’s free Yitzy is a tzadik may hashem protect you and your family.
Reb yitzhak shuchat is a tzadik. Always busy with chesed. Always ready to give helping hand . A Major in bikur cholim
This situation escalated because of sick individuals in our community ,which fed information to the NYPD, and Hynes . They sent the Nypd to shuchats family as far as pensilvania .The community sat quite like ducks while this guy was suffering. SHAME!!!
BH Mr Hynes is suffering now . Hope he rots in jail.
Yitzchak shuchat should only have besuros tovos , and abundance of brochos . The ribonei sheolom loves his children
Neis chanukah
Needs more yitzi shuchats
wow your a huge tzaddik
May you be blessed!
I witnessed the chesed yitzy Did when my father was in the hospital, he helped so much the patients & the family’s of the patients with anything they needed, I’ll never forget All those rides he gave us to the hospital & from the hospital at all hours, (Rabbi Lieder as well was amazing) I really Wish you all the best yitzchak.
Yitzy this is awesome!!! Mazal tov
So this good man is to spend a day in jail while the monster who was actually throwing rocks at people is free to roam the streets at will. But isn’t that just like Crown Heights? The police and their ‘justice system’ are so ridiculous that they are actually comical. We might as well laugh..
Baruch hashem
That is not what I call ‘cleared’. And for what reason? To satisfy a black guy who threw stones at a little girl- that the Jew didn’t get away with responding to that? What a joke. But the way things are going world wide and especially in Crown Heights, I guess we need to say B”H.
Finally rid of Hynes.
I still remember the 103 years for a “Hassidic” molester and I believe he wanted to do similar to Shuchat just to gain votes from the black community.
Now Yitzy can come back to Israel & start up a branch of Shomrim here, together with Yossi Frenkel, another tzaddik who puts community first.
Shuchat is a tzadik, who only helps people, he is a hero who was risking his life to protect crown heights from thugs who were throwing rocks at women at the time, charles was with another thug who kidnapped and raped a black teenage girl right here in crown heights, the system of justice we have is exreamly far from a fair and honest justice system, it has to appease thugs like sharpton and liberal two faced cop bashers, not real justice…. the only answer is Moshiach Now!
Former DA Hynes is an anti-semite. He’s rotten to the core and it will be shown soon that this wasn’t the only blood libel Hynes created. Hopefully his day will come for making a Yid suffer so much. Thankfully Hashem had Rachmonus on Yitzy.
Shame on all the people who took part in accusing such a wonderful man and trying to twist this into hate crime.
Wish you all the best Yitzy,
Dear Friend.
Continue your life with much Nachas and Simcha.
It’s a Nes Chanukah. So happy for him. What a Ish Chesed is all I can say about him. Such a shame the community didn’t back him. Hope he can move on with a happy good life now.
what good news!
Anyone that knows this yid knows he a real tzadick
The community was supporting Yitzi all that time! With money and much more!
It seems thompson is a level headed fair DA
Yitzy I’m so happy for you May Hashem watch over you and your family with only good..
Nes Chanukah!!:-)
Hynes went after yitzchal shuchat ,and is BH ok and Hynes is in trouble.
I feel terrible for all the suffering he went through.
We should fundraise money for him ,and his family
Yitzy is a hero, tzadik an outstanding person who served our community,with lots of chessed for the sick, poor, needy and all without any DISRIMINATION.
thankfully this modern day blood libel is over,and gets to go back home to his family and children
shame on the mosrim!!!!
A true Chanukah Nes!!!
I’m so happy for him. Yitzchak is a big tzadik. Has hem loves him thank you hashem
This man protected the community and they did nothing in return for him
very happy very pleased