By COLlive reporter
The New York Police Department and a Chabad school in Brooklyn are most appreciative to a brave and caring African American man who came to the rescue of a teenager.
The 15 year-old student of the Darchei Menachem boys school in Crown Heights was walking back home Monday evening when he was surrounded by a group black teenagers on New York Avenue and Rutland Rd.
When one of them reached to snatch his mobile phone, the Jewish boy resisted and was punched in the eye.
A black male that saw the struggle got involved and began chasing the group, retrieving the mobile device. The child aggressor managed to escape.
The man then walked the Jewish boy back to the school and police and Hatzalah paramedics were called.
Rabbi Chaim Perl, Darchei Menachem’s Director of Development told COLlive the school will be stepping up their safety measures at their relatively new location.
“We are working with the local Police Department to have more and better protection during dismissal times to ensure that an incident such as this does not happen again,” he said.
Police officer Richard Silverstein of the 71 Precinct, who responded to the call, told COLlive they are considering to reward the kind civilian.
“The individual helped out a fellow community member in a time of need, protecting him from further violence and walking him back to his school to make sure he was safe. We want to thank him for that,” he said.
Silverstein said the local Police Department would like to give him an award for his actions, and asks if anyone has information on his whereabouts or where he can be reached to please call 718-735-0527.
There is something very uneven about how things work in Crown Heights- just in case you haven’t noticed.
G-d should help you who ever is the ” black guy”
You are so racist, there is nothing wrong with being black, many blacks are amazing people.
I can’t believe a jewish person can talk the way you just did.
Love the comments here. Especially number 1.
Can you guys please by act as if ur living in slavery times. Stop calling him “Black Man”!!
I agree with those calling the title “Racist” — that was indeed my first impression upon reading the title.
Agreed!!
the fact is, that this is a community that is divided into categories “blacks” and “jews” and thats the way it is. same as blacks call the jews “jews” and the jews call the blacks “blacks” its just a way to know what we’re talking about. the fact he was a black man is mentioned as a praise not as an offence and the beauty of the story is that in a community that IS divided, one side came to the help of the other. if it was a white man or a jewish man who came to help, there… Read more »
so it was nice someone, a black person, actually helped
It was an amazing chesed he did for this boy, and now we call him a black man? He deserves more respect
love the title: “black man to the rescue!” sounds like a new superhero comic book! 🙂
BS”D
THANK YOU for standing up for what is right!
G-d will bless you for your efforts!
All the best and much gratitude and blessings
Years ago, i was attacked by a black man in prospect park and screamed. Someone came to my aid. A decent human being, who happened to be black. Most people would come to the aid of another – white, black, hispanic, asian. Why do you seem surprised that a black person helped. It is what should be expected.
if this guy gets awarded they should start awarding all the hatzala members for the hundreds of calls they go on to save the black people in crown heights
Isn’t it kind of strange that the cops don’t know where to find this black guy? Don’t you think they should know his name and whereabouts being that he is a prime witness??
I think it’s good that he will get rewarded, it will be an example to his community. to #4, different strokes for different folks. One rule doesn’t apply for everyone and every situtation
that is SO nice!! i usually get scared of african americans at night because so many people get mugged but this man was REALLY NICE! thank you 🙂
I agree with #2.
It’s a great story but the headline should describe the individual by the content of his character not by the color of his skin.
While that was very nice of you, and your undertones do imply that you wish for some recognition, note the difference between your action and the hero in this story:
He jumped in to stop a fight, and physically put himself at risk to help the kid.
Did you do that? I don’t think so.
Now, back to the ten commandments… don’t be jealous.
Racist? Really? you’re actually the one who sounds racist!
There is nothing wrong of being black or dark skinned and the thought that saying “black” or “dark skinned” might be offensive is indeed racist!
Here is a standard title from CBS today – are they racist too?
Attack on black teen in Colorado was hate crime, police say
http://www.cbsnews.com/2102-504083_162-57415326.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
I have 2 words to tell you “yshar koach” (which is Hebrew for well done/Thank you).
thats a racist title
I am white and Jewish and live in Crown Heights and when my Black (as you put it) neighbors son got stabbed in the arm by his brother and the mother told him to walk to kingsbrook hospital for stitches, I drove him instead in my car. There was a cop who witnessed this and commended me. No one offered me any award for doing the right and normal thing. and I didn’t expect any award. If I were that man I would take it as an insult that i have to be rewarded for doing the right thing.
There is only one real way to get a cops attention in Crown Heights. Tell the dispatcher someone is double parked.
this is great news!
exceeept: its a bit racist to give it the title “black man to the rescue”. if he was white, i dont think it would say “whiite man to the rescue”!
but still, he is very courageous.
that was extremely nice of that black