Man Arrested & Charged with Hate Crime in Attack of Chassidic Man in Williamsburg
Edited by: TJVNews.com
The NYPD reported on Thursday that a man was arrested and charged with a hate crime in connection with the slapping of a Chassidic man who walking in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on Monday at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon.
According to police, Carrington Maddox, 31, was charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime and menacing for attacking a 27-year-old man dressed in traditional Orthodox Jewish garb, as was reported by the New York Post.
In this blatantly anti-Semitic attack, the victim was approached by a stranger who randomly slapped him on the left side of the face in front of 144 Lynch Street in Williamsburg, as was reported by the Post.
Police noted that this particular incident marked the third suspected anti-Semitic attack in Brooklyn in two days. Police also told the Post that the suspect’s arrest came as a result from a tip given to the NYPD CrimeStoppers hotline.
Police also said that the two other anti-Semitic attacks occurred within minutes of each other, around 6 am on Sunday morning, according to the Post report.
The Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is probing them, as well.
In the first incident, video surveillance footage shows an attacker blasting the white spray of a fire extinguisher on a 72-year-old man dressed in Chassidic attire at Lee Avenue and Taylor Street in Williamsburg, as was reported by the Post.
Speaking to CBS2 News, the victim, who asked not to be named, said that a group approached him from behind and one of them chased him before spraying him in the head, the Post reported.
“One guy ran after me, and he started to spray,” the victim told the station. “I tried to walk as fast as I can.”
The Post also reported that in the second incident, an attacker unleashed an extinguisher on a 66-year-old Jewish man and then punched him at the nearby intersection of Roebling and Third streets before fleeing, cops said.
