A young Lubavitcher boy was threatened and verbally attacked by a teenager with a knife in a Crown Heights playground on Monday, the NY Post reported.
The mother of the victim told police the perpetrator yelled “I will kill you, Jew” in the shocking antisemitic attack, police and law enforcement sources said.
The incident happened at a playground at KIPP AMP Middle School and MS 354 Monday evening in Crown Heights, according to the NYPD and the victim’s mother, who said her daughter was also targeted in the attack.
“My kids were shaking, they were crying,” Chaya Sundroy, who came to the US from Israel 10 years ago, told the NY Post. “They asked why – we didn’t do nothing to him, why they say that, why they want to killed us. They were really, really scared about it.”
Police and sources said the man also screamed “Heil Hitler” at the boy, but Sundroy, who was at the park with her six children, said that was actually directed at her daughter.
During the attack, several people also shouted “Allahu Akbar” in front of the children, according to Sundroy and police sources.
One of the suspects flashed a knife during the attack, according to police and the mother.
The group fled after police were called to the scene. No one was injured, police said.
Cops said they are seeking one suspect and looking into the case as a “possible biased incident.”
No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
These types of incidents are not isolated, and anyone who does that will most likely do it again and possibly next time use the knife C”V.
They cannot get away, they need to be apprehended on the first round.
Thank G-d no one was injured.
None of these meetings mean anything if we do not see Cops on the streets! The Hoodlums have nothing to fear with out Cops on the street Patrolling. What are we waiting for! The community activists need to do their Job! Hashem Yishmor!!!
“Possible biased incident”?????
What is possible about it? What did the hate crime summit accomplish if they still can’t call a blatant hate crime just that?
Until officials show ZERO TOLERANCE for this kind of behavior it will keep happening
Responded in large numbers and got images and addresses of where the group went into and was given over to the police. Nobody was able to ID the teen that actually brandished the knife.
You gotta have something to defend yourself with and know how to use it, whether it’s pepper spray, martial arts, a gun or whatever else. Get one.