A Jewish male was attacked by a young black man at Medgar Evers College on Wednesday evening in Crown Heights.
The victim, a student at the school on Crown Street between Bedford and Franklin Avenues in Crown Heights, was talking with other students in a hallway of the college’s science building at approximately 7:30 pm when he was approached by a black man who punched him in the stomach and face and yelled anti-Semitic remarks at him, police said.
The victim, who was wearing a Yarmulka, asked, “why did you hit me,” to which the attacker replied, “I don’t like Jewish people or white people.”
The victim did not require hospital treatment.
NYPD and College Campus security responded to the scene, and have secured witnesses and surveillance footage of the attack, which they will be reviewing in the hopes of identifying the attacker. It is not known if the assailant is affiliated with the school.
The incident is being treated as a hate crime by police.
Medgar Evers’ campus security personnel have been fully cooperating with the NYPD. Borough President Eric L. Adams and Medgar Evers President Rudolph Crew have directed their staffs to assist the victim in any way necessary and have offered their assistance to the NYPD as they seek out the assailant.
Following the incident, Dr. Crew spoke with members of the Crown Heights community, and said he is taking the incident “very seriously,” a source told COLlive. “The school President said that if it turns out the attacker is a student of the school, he will be immediately expelled,” the source said.
“This was an awful act of violence and of ignorance,” Dr. Crew said. “While such incidents are fortunately rare on campus, even one is too many. To attack someone because of his or her race or religious beliefs is appalling. I want to make it clear that we have zero tolerance for this type of behavior and we will do everything in our power to ensure the assailant is found and held fully accountable for these hateful actions.”
Dr. Crew also commended a young Muslim woman standing with the victim at the time, who came to the defense of the victim. “The fact that a Muslim woman came to the defense of an orthodox Jewish man is a true reflection of the values that permeate this great institution,” he said.
“Medgar Evers College has no tolerance for hate, and neither does Brooklyn,” Borough President Adams said. “We are a diverse community that will grow stronger and more united in the face of an isolated incident of ignorance.”
“While the details around this event remain unclear we are asking students at Medgar Evers to come forward with any information leading to the arrest of this person,” said Council Member Laurie A. Cumbo. “This incident is in no way a reflection of the student body at MEC who have had a long history of welcoming students of all races and religions.”
Dereck Skeete, Dean of Enrollment Management, says he cannot recall a similar incident ever taking place at Medgar Evers.
moshiach now
moshiach now
Did the Jewish boy get hurt and if so refuha shilama.
Why are you all arguing? Fact is, it was an anti semitic act and all that matters is that we need to be here for each other! Through thick and thin! Not argue oh” your talking anti semitic etc…There are no bad actions such as anti semitic that will go unforseen in the eyes of hashem! Our job here is to “Truly Love” each other by accepting every one of us just the way we are!
Then hopefully we’ll be zone to finally see moshiach!!
Why the baal teshuva line? Not right to use it as deragatory. What if its a shliach who lives amongst goyim? Ever think about that? Dont just jump straight to trying to lower baal teshuva
This is no surprise!
As a past student I am sad to hear this I hope that the is brought to justice.. There is no place for violence at MEC
read: so much facts in these answers, but don’t want to hear the truth
I agree, two wrongs don’t make a right!!
As a student at medgar evers college, I can say that this is not typical. Not surprised though. Things can get very stressful at the time of finals and some people have never learned a normal way to express their frustrations aside from resorting to violence. This such an isolated case. It doesn’t reflect on the college at all.
obviously this is a baal teshuva whose family lived together with goyim and does not know the concept of eisov sone es yaakov.
you are like the israeilis who think we need to have sympathy for the arabs. what does it say about those that have rachmonos on reishoyim
so much hate and racism in these comments.. makes me want to throw up.
Lol!!!
This world is so backwards.
#jewishlifematters
big talk
imagine if it was the other way around
jewish student pushes black students and says that
a while back i was walking in CH and a group of black teens starting loudly saying “heil h-yimach shemo v’zichro”-I told them to go check their history and see how much h-yimach shemo vzichro wanted to see them dead
some of them told me that they didn’t even know who h was, but that they knew it was a way to say the h with jews
they are getting these kind of msgs from somewhere…..
lets see action not comments
it is so ironic, but some of the meanest racism I’ve seen is by black folks against white people
of course it doesn’t mean that all black folks are like that, but the fact is that the group that screams “racism” the most is the most openly racist group around
No she isn’t, it’s a fact. Black kids assault Jews, steal their bikes, steal Devorah Benjamin’s collection, mug women in broad daylight with or without guns…. shall I go on? How many Jews do/have done the same to Blacks?
I agree that Dr. Crew responded quickly and appropriately; however, it seems the students the victim was talking to should have known or at least recognized the attacker if he works or studies there. Did they all vanish into thin air?
Comment #1 you are a racist. I applaud the swift comments from Dr. Crew
Doctor Crew is a no nonsense individual I am sure the assailant will be dealt with severely even if he isn’t a student at the school.
typical of black kids