CBS-LA reports:
Some people in a Hancock Park neighborhood said a driver targeted them because they are Jewish. Now police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
The suspect in the case, identified as Mohammed Mohammed, was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
Security video from Friday night shows the driver making a hard U-turn.
CBSLA interviewed one of the victims, who says he and his friend were the target.
“We both scrambled in different directions so he slammed on his brakes and missed us thank God,” the victim, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
A second security video shows the driver reversing and trying to hit them again.
“He clearly was going at us and it was even more clear on round two,” said the victim.
It happened on La Brea in Hancock Park, on a corner with a couple synagogues and on the Sabbath where many walk around in traditional attire.
“Why he chose us? Probably because of the yarmulkes on our heads,” the victim said.
Thankfully both the man and his friend got out of the way, but then they heard a crash.
A home security camera caught the same car plowing through a stop sign just moments later.
“This guy had a thirst for blood on his fingers,” the victim said. “You could clearly see in his face that he wanted to do something.”
A witness snapped a photo of a Koran on his dashboard, and although no one says the driver — Mohammed Mohammed — verbalized his own religion, folks in this community say targeting someone else for their religion is always a hate crime.
This victim was a little disappointed that he had to ask for a sergeant before the responding officers would listen to their concerns that this was more than just a car accident.
“We live with it everyday. We live in fear and we hope and we pray that the LAPD and FBI take this more seriously than the initial response was,” the victim said.
Because this community knows the next victim may not be as agile or as lucky, and living in fear isn’t living.
“There definitely was a God watching us,” the victim said.
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I have a krummeh Kop? You’re the one with a krummeh kop! How can you make these outlandish assumptions based off circumstancial evidence. You don’t know the situation so don’t go around insulting my kop. Thank you very much.
Number 6, I probably don’t have to answer but I think you are trying to say that the animal in question is a duck. However, number 2 makes the idealistic point that appearances are not always what they seem. And, moreover, even if this fellow is a muslim and has a Koran and sought to harm yidden it is possible that he only suffers mental challenges and is not really doing it out of a religious conviction. These things have been happening. The media and the data are trying to scare us into thinking it is 1939. Well it isn’t.… Read more »
if it walks like a duck, smells like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, thinks like a duck, flies like a duck, eats like a duck, you know what it probably is? i’ll let you guess.
thank G-d.
For our values,our safety and our future the choice ice is clear. Trump 2020
73.3% of US population is Christian, and 0.8% is Muslim (from 2016 data). Given the fact that American culture is one based around Christian ideals, we can say that political right-wing and alt-right terrorism, as well as white-supremacy is Christian for all intents and purposes. Between 2008 and 2016, 115 terrorist attacks were conspired and/or carried out by right-wing extremists. 63 were by Islamic. That’s 178 terrorist attacks in the US, out of which 63 were Islamic. That means that more than 35% of attacks were Islamic, even though muslims are only 0.8% of the US population. Not all Muslims… Read more »
How do you know he’s Muslim? If I changed my name up Christian Christianson and had a New Testament in my car it doesn’t mean I’m Christian.
As a child of Holocaust Survivors, I cannot stress enough that the present mindset in today’s world of JEW-HATE is very much again in the forefront of society.
Israel, unfortunately, is NOT the Jewish-Only State that it originally was founded for by our Forefathers & Jewish Survivors.
So where do we all go, Chas V’Sholem, if we all need to be in a “SAFE PLACE”?
Life is again becoming scary for the Yidden.