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Stabbing Victim: NYPD Must Increase Vigilance
In an interview with the New York Daily News from his parents’ home in Seagate, Leiby Brickman, who was stabbed in the back earlier this month by an unknown assailant on Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights, said that the NYPD must increase its vigilance to prevent these types of hate crimes against Jews.
From the NY Daily News:
Leiby Brikman was a few feet away from his Brooklyn apartment when he felt a sudden sharp pain in his back.
“I knew right away,” he recalled of the stabbing on Empire Blvd. near Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights on Feb. 10.
Brikman, 25, who was wearing a yarmulke, suffered a punctured lung.
The suspect, a black man wearing a blue hoodie, fled south on Albany Ave. toward Lefferts Blvd., according to surveillance video. A stunned Brikman tried to call Hatzolah, the Jewish volunteer ambulance service. But he struggled to find the number, so he stumbled into a check cashing store where several good Samaritans ran to help.
Cops have not declared it a hate crime, noting the suspect said nothing during the violence. Brikman was wearing Hasidic garb and was blocks away from away from the national headquarters of the Chabad Hasidic group.
I agree!!
NYPD should be banned from using cell phones while on duty. Its heartbreaking always seeing them looking down on their phones .
yankiv
#1 is totally correct, at my work we cant use phones on the job why are these guys allowed it, I see 10 of them standing in a group all on phones so much for eyes in the community.
DeClasse' Intellectual
How dare you suggest this!!!It goes against DeBlasio’s new polices guided by left wing liberalism and political correctness!!!!!!!!!!
O.T . boy 73-76
to post # 3 . yr so right 10000 %
the american definition of a hate crime is
IF A BLACK IS ASSAULTED IN ANY WAY
BY A WHITE OR A JEW OR ANY ONE WHO IS NOT PERSON OF COLOR … THAT IS A HATE
CRIME . PERIOD
SOXFAN
“cops have not declared it a hate crime, noting the suspect said nothing during the violence”
Interesting requirement, eh?