A teenager has been arrested in connection with an alleged anti-Semitic attack in Brooklyn Monday afternoon.
The 15-year-old is being charged with assault as a hate crime.
Police say they’re still looking for two other people.
They say the trio approached a 53-year-old man at the Marcy Avenue subway station in Williamsburg, made anti-Semitic statements and hit him in the head with an umbrella.
“It leaves for a very, very bad feeling of social morale in the city and on the subway,” said one person at the Marcy Avenue station. “Riding the subway should not be a life-or-death situation.”
“It’s pretty unbelievable to me that there’s this kind of bigotry that’s happening, and it’s really upsetting as person, as a minority, that these things are still happening, and I feel like I have to kind of watch my back,” said another.
According to a community activist, the victim is a rabbi visiting from Israel and was on his way to receive cancer treatment.
The victim was not seriously hurt.
Anyone with information on the case should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit http://ift.tt/17IHIZe.
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