Bochur Viciously Beaten Friday Night in Racially Motivated Attack

In response to the assault, Police posted a car in front of the location.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Bochur was viciously beaten in a racially motivated attack Friday night. The incident took place at around 10:00pm when the Bochur was on his way to a friend’s house, and was accosted by 5 Black teens on Carroll Street between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues.

The group of Blacks pounced on the Bochur, throwing him over and began viciously beating him while cursing at him “you F****** Jew”, “little Jew” and “this is our neighborhood, we will kill you” among other racially motivated slurs and curses. After beating the Bochur for nearly 5 minutes, during which he tried calling for help, they left the scene.

More in the Extended Article.

Bloody and beaten the Bochur knocked on the door of one of the houses and Hatzalah was called along with police, they responded and treated the Bochur for bruises all over his body and a deep gash in the top of his head, caused by a rock later found at the scene covered in blood.

The Bochur was taken to a nearby hospital and given a staple on his head for the gash, and was treated for the other injuries.

Police filled out a report and the next day, Shabbos morning, detectives from Bias Crime Unit at One Police Plaza interviewed the Bochur and reported to be taking the case seriously.

CrownHeights.info has learned that there was another assault on Brooklyn and Eastern Parkway where three Bochurim were ganged up on by 5 or 6 Black Teens and were beaten. It is unclear if the two incidents are related.

In case of an emergency never hesitate to call 911 and Shomrim at (718) 774-3333 24/7

76 Comments

  • rage

    we should show them what a good beating means.
    here’s what we do. we rome the streets. if we find more then three colored teenagers walking together, we confront them. start asking them questions.
    and ask them to go home.
    if they refuse, that’s when the beating should start.
    none of them should be able to walk after the beating. they must be hospitolized…
    just pump the streets with fire. fight fire with fire.
    Kahana Chai.
    “every jew- A 22”

  • Let-s beat them !!!!!

    maybe we should start fighting back, why do we continue to to let them beat us, let’s start fighting back !!!!

  • KINGSTON BEAT

    ONLY IF WE HAD ONE COP TO WALK THE KINGSTON BEAT,THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED!

  • trouble

    This is insane!
    what happened to all the “police protection”
    and it happened on berel sugars block

  • Cee

    Tachlus, what are we doing about this?

    We must beef up shmorim on all blocks. We must strike back, they need to know we won’t be their punching bags.

    These people are animals. We need to drive them from our community.

  • eliyahu

    Very sorry to hear that horrible stories that happen only 10 pm in one of the “safiest” Crown Heights places.

    Looks like that these bandits feel very free to do what they want as there is no visual present police or anybody else.

    Why can’t our community make ourselves a little bit safer by making shomrim to drive through the streets, putting cameras all over and signs that this area is watched?

    In other areas you can see security cars patrolling all the time, and if they see any stranger they would follow him and ask what is he doing here..
    I am sure that a lot of people would be willing to contribute at least some money toward our safety.

  • Nachie

    For as long as we sit back expecting things to get better on their own, expecting things to change without us making it change, is another day that we are risking the safety of our children.

    I call out a cry to arms!

    We as Lubavitchers always lecture the Israeli politicians to be strong, not to capitulate to pressure and to fight their enemy’s with everything that they have. We lecture them saying, “we must prevent another holocaust by showing the haters of the Jewish people that we will not go out without a fight”.

    It is time we hold ourselves to the same standard!

    To all members of ANASH living in Crown Heights,
    it is time we stand united!
    It is time for us to protect those we hold dear to us!
    It is time to fight back!

  • Sick of black inaction

    If this had happened to a black kid by white people or Jews or the blacks (and millions of whites as well) would be asking for blood. Why does no one who ostensibly cares for “civil rights” ever care when someone other than black people are racially assaulted. Why are our black neighbors such racists that they don’t give a hoot when young people are beaten for no reason at all???? Shame on them for being such cowards and refusing to stand up to the problems they create and then blame everyone else for.

  • resident

    Berel sugar we need you to go bakc to the precint and choke the precint .Now that all teh bochurim are here we need extra protection .We need to demand extra police at times like this.Lets unite and go to the meeting on thursdays .Do it .Put it on your schedule .ITS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY AND YOUR KIDS>

  • Mendel Mish

    We Gotta TAKE EM DOWN!!!!! This Shouldnt Happen Again!!!!!!! Moshiach NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Sruly K

    Carroll & Kingston! OMG! I lived on that block a couple of years ago. May G-d be with you and shield you from these violent beasts.

    You could always move…WOULD YOU LIVE IN HARLEM? Prob not…Why would you live there?

  • Steve

    Well I’ve had it! There has to be more police cars cruising the street Shabbos evening. What a blatant anti-semite racist attack that needs emergency action. Our only answer at this stage is much more police movement in the night. Otherwise, this community will turn into an outpost settlement in Israel — where family members will have to be on guard and have a rifle at the ready in self defence. Even on Shabbos!!

  • Areye Leib Krayzman

    you know these events wouldnt happen in williamsburg or boropark. the goyim there are scared to even raise there voices to loud cause they know they will end in the river. As these teens haave declared that it is there neighborhood? i wonder why cause we are all scared and rely on the police who dont do anything but protect these animals, crown heights i think its time to take matters in our hands.

  • cher

    10:00 pm????? i thought that was early!!! well early enough to be outside safely anyway…

  • Meg

    This is absolutely terrifying.
    I hope the young men involved are caught,although it’s doubtful.. It’s awful to think that these things are happening in this day and age.

  • Woman and girls

    And this is where we are sending all our woman and girls for next Shabbos. Its time you guys get your act together. I seem to remember back in the 70s and early 80s there was a problem, back then there political correctness was not more important then the well being of our mothers, daughters, fathers and sons.

  • Yossi

    This is really heart wrenching! Crown Heights Central… you cant get more central then that! We need cameras on all the corners!

  • outraged!

    This is an outrage. we don’t need to live with this violence in our neighborhood.

  • RESIDENT

    After this type of event, this should be CLEAR EVIDENCE that what this neighborhood needs is for Shomrim to put their own fighting and work together to do what they do best….protect the Jews of Crown Heights with achdus…..think about it

  • Concerned

    There should be a police booth with a policeman sitting inside during night hours. In front of Yeshiva University they have a Police booth – So the precedent is already there. OR the city should allow the community to place security booths on sidewalk corners with our own private security.

  • john

    i must report of approximately in the middle of carrol and crown there was a group of blacks around the same age sitting outside a house and all big and as i walked past i beileve they tried murmuring something at me soo this block might have some residents on it that should be punished severely IF this type of story can be substantiated and supported by other testimonies thank u!

  • abba

    Friday night at 10:00 people on kingston should’v saw this and stopped it especally being so many guests in town

  • angry resident

    It’s about the police give these animals a long overdue lesson!

    What do we need police for if they don’t do anything?

  • ISSAC GREENBERG

    WHAT SHOULD WE DO ????

    SHALL WE STOP LETTING OUR CHILDREN
    AND WIFES WALKING THE STREETS OF CROWN HEIGTS????

    SHAL WE MAKE THE STATEMENT THAT WE LIVE IN A JUNGLE????

    WHEN EVER I WALK ON THE STREET
    I ALWAYS HAVE SHOMRIM ON SPEED DIAL , YOU NEED TO BE VEY ALERT,
    CRIME HAPPENS WITHIN SECONDS!!!!

    NEVER LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!!!!

    I THINK IT WILL BE A GOOD IDEA
    OF TRAINING EVERY ONE HOW TO BE ALERT!!!!

    SOME PEOPLE JUST DONT GET IT ,
    ESPECIALY WOMEN AND GIRLS,
    I THINK SHOMRIM SHOULD HAVE A
    LECTURE ON HOW TO BE ALERT!!!

  • Bloomberg???

    It is about time we had police protection , or used our right (2nd ammendment) to walk around armed.

    It is funny Bloomberg is for gun control yet he offers zero police protection.

    I hope those bochurim have a speedy refuah shleima!

  • pensive

    This is a democracy!
    This is a democracy?

    Which one is the correct???

    Most Police officers are just a product of the buerocracy that they were born of. They are not on any valient mission! they are simply doing a job and making a parnussah.

    The problem begins when all the cops come together and subconciously agree to be part of a group which cares for each-other more than for the duty that their job requiers.

    And of course ladies and gentlemen, the problem only worsens when they realize that they can tod opon these that they are paid to protect (I claim not that they are making huge wads of cash; rather that they took on themselves a certain duty for a given compensation, if they do not feel well compensated then they are free to go (as we know they put people in prison; they are not prisinors)). hmmm….

    But my freinds, hear me now, these officers walk the streets and see that we are set in our ways, that we are diffrent then are they. but lest they see we are succesfull and happy they say to themselves, ‘wait a second, what happens here.’

    and lo they take on a human trait, indeed a vice, a vice that is all to familiar with most of us, they become jelous. Next, they mumble in thier hearts and these cops decide, –most of this is occuring in a pseudo-conciouss state of mind; any pensive man of inttelect will atest to it that it happens all to often with us mortals; or should I rather say ‘us soon to be immortals’, ha ha — and they conspire in their hearts and thus seek to take revenge without entirely bending the “rules”.

    but that is the supposed beauty of a Democracy: if we play we win; if we do not than it is in the hands of others to decide our fate.

    So get up decide that you will fight!!! Don’t think that to fight is “unchassidish.”

    exucuse me sir, but does it not say al-tisbaishu lifnai ha’maligim… dont look at how the other veiws you, rather Hakadoh baruch huh!!!

    God does not need your offerings God needs you to stand up when neccesary and show your inability to accept such things! yes us “hebrews” were never treated well. does that mean that we must be complacent with the status-quo??? must we not be outraged with the thought of doing hurt to someone else; must we not be outraged when others do harm to you, or to your brother? Bonim atem lihashem elokaichem!
    If your brother is wronged and you act not, then YOU have wronged him; yes YOU have blood on your hands!

    Is it not the purpose of a community so that all can help one another. why the hate??? why the animosoty??? why the bickering? why the desire to always show that one is smarter than the other; that one is more clever than the other. Is the Lubavitch of old gone? has it been set astray? has it gone away from the teachings of truth that one so strongly preclaims bu preclaims thus after FIVE shots of vodka only?

    THIS IS REALITY!!!

    You choose how to live it!

    fight as yehoshu of old

    get rid of the evil complexis that modern society has caused us!
    forget the car!
    forget the fancy suit!
    forget the puerile pleasentreas and unnecesary paranoia

    be not the one who through his eyes asks his nieghbour if he is doing the “correct” thing to do; be you the one that looks at his neighbour and through his eyes asks of him ‘will you join me’

    if not you then who???
    if not now then when???

  • Fed Up

    This violence has to stop!!! It is absurd! Something must be done, maybe the only they will understand is violence. We need to start mugging some of their own.

  • ZALMY.T

    YOU KNOW IM REALLY GETTING SICK OF THIS! I KNOW WHO THE KID WAS..ITS REALLY NOT RIGHT THAT..WE CANT EVEN GO WALKING TO ARE FRIENDS HOUSE WITH OUT GETTING HURT! AND WHAT DO THE POLICE DO ABOUT THIS?? ILL TELL YOU THAY HAVE POLICE CARS PARKT ALL OVER C.H WITH KNOW COPS IN THEM!!..YE THAT WONT HELP ANY THING..I HOPE THE GUYS WHO DIT IT GET COURT AND PAY BIG TIME!!! THE ONLY GUYS DOING THERE JOB ARE SHOMRIM! WELL I HOPE THE GUY GETS BETTER VERY SOON

  • malkiec

    I want to know how this could happen on such a good block,when so many bocherim were walking around and no one heard or saw anything. Did this really happen. What will happen chas vesholom next week when the girls are there.

  • Ezekial

    For the life of me, I cannot understand why the NYPD does not send patrols along the major north/south avenues of Crown Heights. I have not seen a patrol officer even on Kingston in months. I don’t care if the NYPD has impact zones up the wazoo over by Franklin and Bedford. Maybe this tragic mugging will have some impact on the Mayor and his cronies. After all, er voted for him.

    Barry Sugar must understand that his effectiveness must be with the Mayor and the Commissioner. But more importantly, he must make every mayoral candidate pledge to help the community with better policing in next year’s elections. He must get Thompson, Weiner, Quinn, and the others to promise better policing, different policing.

    And I ask Chanina to get busy on this, too. Moshe is old hat, he doesn’t know how to do any follow up with the elected officials. What a shame. Moshe worked for Bloomberg, but never asked for anything and will not get anything back.

  • Mottel

    There have been many “calls to arms” in these comments. I hope it’s clear that the purpose of these comments is to vent and feel a bit better. But don’t be silly and think that someone is going to read a comment here and think: “I really must fight back! ‘Sick of It’ wrote in big letters that I have to! So I will!”

    The Community council, Shomrim, and community leaders, they need to do something. And if they don’t or aren’t, they need to be made to. The answer isn’t fighting back. Having more bochurim hospitalized won’t help. And arming bochurim? So they can get drunk and high and kill each other or themselves?

    Stop talking in capital letters, and make things good.

  • resident

    WE need to demand extra police protection for big events like chof bais shvat, kinus etc.WE HAVE TO DEMAND.GET BLOOMBERRG OUT OF OFFICE>LET HIM GO GET MORE MATZAH BALLS>GUILIANI THE GOY WAS BETTER>HOW EMBARASSING IS THAT>

  • c.s.

    WHAT ARE YOU GUYS SAYING?!?!
    DO YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE FIGHT BACK!?THEY(THE AFRICAN-AMERICANS) WILL FIGHT BACK MUCH MORE AND THIS WILL RESULT INTO MUCH MORE DAMAGE.
    CHASSIDS SAYS WE SHOULD FIGHT OUR NEFESH HABIHAMUS NOT THE BLACKS!!!!
    IF YOUR LOOKING TO FIGHT:PLEASE LEAVE CROWN HEIGHTS,WE DO NOT NEED MORE CRIMINALS-SHIP YOURSELVES TO INDIA OR AFRICA OR WHATEVER-JUST DONT ATTACK THE REBBES KEDUSHA IN CROWN HEIGHTS!!!!!!!!!

  • fight back

    one thing is for sure- the problem will not go away if we voice our outrage on this blog- we can huff and puff from today until tomorrow, we can scream that we need to carry guns and we need to fight back, but talking and threatening and discussing it will not make it go away- and we all know that realistically we aren’t going to start mugging some of them and we arent gonna buy guns either…Maybe a group of young zealous “kahane chai” type of guys should start walking the streets- and really fighting back- yes , guys who aren’t cowards and are willing to take care of these animals- (a person without a conscience IS an animal-)a- take care of them like they would in williamsburg. Bexause every single time they beat a bochur and don’t get in trouble they realize they really have power over us – which they clearly do.

  • anon

    i am going to crown heights next week and i dont know whether to be scared or happy that im going , may everyone be protected by hashem and we shouldnt hear another story like this bc mshiach will be hear before another thing can happen

  • Yehuda

    We need to start teaching self defense as part of the school curriculum. Everyone has the right to defend themselves. we cannot rely on police protection. We need to help ourselves. Even if we try to get help the police will only patrol the streets for a short while. Yaakov Avinu also prepared to fight Eisav. Are we more righteous than he? They started the war. But with G-d’s help we’ll finish it!

  • elephantbrain

    It has a lot to with OUR “LEADERSHIP.” Obviously it is a lot of “BS.” Pun intended. Our present “leader” is mishpocha with this bochur, but our leader has no influence with the cops. We need a leader who will be WELCOMED by the cops as were past Vaads. When there were crises the Vaad was in constant communications with the cops at all levels. For obvious reasons this no longer is the case. A little vigilanteism would probably help a lot, but real leadership that had the trust of the cops (if not all of the sh’chuna) would go far in getting the services we need.

  • Sick and Tired

    WHY ARE TH PRESS NOT BROUGHT INTO THIS? WHY IN HEAVEN“S NAME DO ONLY THE BLACK RACISTS JERKS LIKE SHARPTON GET AIRTIME???? I”M SURE SOME PEOPLE LIKE SHEA HECHT CAN GET MEDIA ATTENTION!!!! WHY CAN“T WE GET OUR OWN TELEVISED PROTEST LIKE BY JENA SIX? THIS IS THE ONLY TO SHOW THE FACE OF OUR RACIST NEIGHBORS WOULD CAN SAY HI ONE MINUTE AND THEN STAB AND BEAT US THE NEXT!!!

    Say whatever you want, I guerantee you that if we had press coverage, One Police Plaza would listen, but for some stupid reason no one even tries to get a news story on the blatant anti-semitism and pogroms that go one daily in CH.

    Anyone with influence: we beg you, it is your responsibility to use whatever public or other influence you have to bring this issue to the forefront, so people around the country can see how our ”unfortunate” neighbors act.

  • Pentax

    I have an idea set up cameras on the crown heights blocks (there aren’t that many)
    have the some security people watch it
    when they see some stupid fake “gangsters”
    beating a person 5 on 1 because they know
    1 on 1 they would die, send people there to teach em a lesson. Also why not ask
    the “Guardian Angels” to set up a place in Crown Heights they usually get things done…

  • trouble jr

    we got to fight back ….but dont get caught with a weapon and if you see a crime scene with help there walk away people have gotten arrested for stuff they never did

  • elchonon

    Camera’s ? what good is that.. you think the punks care ? and if they get caught on tape, the cops wgill chase them ? spare me…

    Arm yourselfs… thats the only answer and solution..

    A arab hit a jewish girl here in chevron motzey shabbos.. the response ? she beat the living day lights out of mouhamad.. yes she got arrested.. and hopefully mouhamad learnt a lesson.

    This is what you get with gun control..

    I think a clear warning should be sent to black leaders to turn the youth over to the police..

  • yossi to mottel wrote

    i think the gun idea is great and your worry that buchurim will get drunk and kill each other is a stupide statement i mean the jdl and kach chai people went around with guns for years and never killed each other and i trust our buchrim more so lets all just use our legal right to GUNS

  • boruch ben tzvi hakohaine hoffinger

    B“H
    Refuah shelaima!
    Digusting! A jungle!
    These Blacks are chaiv misa.
    I pledge $36 towards installing cameras in as many locations as possible/workable.
    The Rebbe, MH”M always preferred to do things legally.
    Vigilantism prob. is not ‘illegal’ if a few guys, here and there go out for a ‘walk,’ carrying legal things like baseball bats, tire irons, etc. If one, or more Blacks try to assault or rob you, self-defense is permissible.
    People are afraid that if a Black is severely beaten after trying to attack a Jew that a riot will ensue. Forget not, the Dinkins (rhymes with ‘stickin’) crew is not in power.
    Nevertheless, it’s an ineffectual and weak government. Perhaps they’re copying the Israeli government, or vice-versa.
    More Torah learning, more achdus.

  • Welcome to Golus

    Welcome Shluchos! Crown Heights is the safest place in the world..Kan Tziva, no? and everyone calm yourselves down this stuff can and does happen everywhere from Melbourne to London to Lakewood. Is this not why we cry Ad Mosai?

  • s.b

    i was there and saw the blacks they wer there for bout an hour screaming and cursing b4 somthing hapened people should have done som. about it and not let them be there.

  • Moshe

    The only way cameras would help is if 5-10 shomrim members have hookups of those cameras in their own homes in different areas of CH to continually patrol the area EVEN ON SHABBOS AND ODD HOURS OF THE NIGHT. The police have proven time and again that they don’t care.

    Starting up with them on a regular day would definitely case riots which would only harm us instead of helping us.
    I think taking self defense classes are very important especially for woman and children who are usually weaker. Even if someone carries a gun they have to know how to use it and deal with it properly when being attached.

  • Pentax

    YOU dont have a legal right to carry a
    weapon. At least not in NYC sorry that right was taken from you. Move upstate and own a gun but not in nyc.

  • lp

    how about let a bochur walk alone late at nite with shomrim and police close behind and catch the gang and get clues of other gangs.

  • HERSHEL PEKKAR

    BH. A SUBSTANCIAL REWARD SHOULD BE POSTED FOR THEIR CAPTURE AND JAIL TIME, FOR A BIAS CRIME OF ATTEMPTED MURDER, WITH A STATEMENT, THAT ANY VIOLENCE WILL BE DELT WITH THE SAME WAY, THIS WILL MAKE THEM THINK TWICE BEFORE ATTACKING A PERSON, AS EVEN THEIR FRIENDS COULD TURN THEM IN FOR THE REWARD. THE REBBE SAID “WHEN YOU SEE A GOY ON WHOM YOU CANNOT SAY – MAH NOEH GOY ZEH, YOU SHOULD SAY – SHIVISI HASHEM LENEGDY SOMID, IN THIS WAY YOU REFINE HIM SINCE HE REMINDED YOU OF HASHEM. ONCE I WAS COMING HOME FRIDAY NIGHT, AND I SEE 5 GOIM COMING TOWARDS ME AND I SAID SHEVISI ETC. THEY ALL RAISED THEIR HANDS AND SHOUTED GOOD SHABBOS.

  • To: C.S

    You are as much an ignorant as you are a coward!!! Let`s give you something to think about and pray that if chas vesholom there is a next time it should be you who gets the pounding. Then you`ll really be able to teach us how to fight the yetzer hora.

    DU BIST A BOK. BESSER SHVEIG

  • Soneras Soneras

    This has to stop. CH is having arough time. CH should write to the govermendt.
    Have a godd day ch.

  • u dont make sence

    to s.b.samual said he was screaming and no one was there so if u sow it u shouldov done something

  • Abi

    you know its funny how you make such a big fuss about one kid getting beat up on the streets of CH. All of a sudden you want police presence and you are calling for vengeance.

    This kind of thing happens in nyc all the time to all kinds of good people why do you demand preferential treatment? What makes you so much better then the average West Indian on Flatbush?

    Its funny how all the police left Flatbuush and went to your neighborhood, and left the rest of us with all the crime. Why don’t any of you guys ask the police commissioner to send more police to Flatbush and help out the whole crown heights community?

    I wish you would treat every one as equally as you want to be treated.