A 12-year-old boy was slapped with hate crime prices Wednesday in the disturbing caught-on-video beatdown on two Hasidic Jewish boys round his personal age in Brooklyn earlier this month, legislation enforcement sources mentioned.
The pre-teen was picked up late Wednesday morning and charged with aggravated harassment and assault – each as hate crimes – in connection to the Might 12 night assault on the boys at Franklin and Myrtle avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities mentioned.
The Jewish boys have been amongst a bunch of a few dozen enjoying in entrance of a rental constructing on Franklin Avenue close to Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant simply earlier than 9 p.m. when the younger Citi Bike-riding suspect set upon them, based on the video, obtained by Williamsburg 365 Information.
“On video we see him using backwards and forwards on the sidewalk previous this group of boys,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny instructed reporters at a briefing final week. “They’re type of hogging up the entire sidewalk. So there was some type of interplay between the perpetrator who appears to be both a light-skinned male black or male Hispanic, with the Hasidic children.”
“He will get off the bike, walks as much as the group, states, ‘Get off the sidewalk,’ after which begins to assault the 2 boys as the remainder of the group runs away in direction of security,” Kenny added.
The attacker shoved one child to the bottom earlier than knocking one other to the pavement and kicking and stomping on him, based on the clip.
The victims suffered minor cuts on the backs of their heads.
The teen positioned in cuffs Wednesday is being charged as a juvenile, sources mentioned.
Cops had initially mentioned the suspect didn’t make any particularly antisemitic statements.
It was not instantly clear why hate crime prices have been filed, although the division had mentioned after the incident that its Hate Crime Job Pressure had investigated the case.
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