Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Two Bochurim were assaulted at Lefferts Park on Shabbos afternoon. Police, Hatzalah and Shomrim all responded to the call which took place on Lefferts and Albany when the two Bochurim were assaulted by two Male Hispanics using brass knuckles.
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Two Bochurim Assaulted with a Weapon at Lefferts Park
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Two Bochurim were assaulted at Lefferts Park on Shabbos afternoon. Police, Hatzalah and Shomrim all responded to the call which took place on Lefferts and Albany when the two Bochurim were assaulted by two Male Hispanics using brass knuckles.
More in the Extended Article.
Both Bochurim sustained injuries that required them to have it checked out in an emergency room which Hatzalah transported them to Downstate Medical Center, one Bochur got hit in the side of his head and was knocked out while the other sustained an injury to his eye and cheek.
The perpetrators were described as two Male Hispanics around 15 years old and are believed to live in the building opposite the park. Police responded with three cruisers and searched the area for them but could not locate them. A police report had been filed.
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Gershon Shapiro
Typical example. It is my belief there will be no serious effort to find the perpetrators since they only assaulted jews. & to the police. we are not important. Just a burden
a clear witness
i witnessed this! one of the boys lived at the corner of empire and albany (in the building) while one woman who lived there ran to call his parents, there was a helicopter circling the area for a long time… i hope everything is alright now.
ch resident
crime must stop! didnt we just hear a sad story and now? another one?
unbelievable! this must be stopped!
cop killes
hey mr kely
this are the cop killers of tomorow .
find then now or wait for another cop to be killed.
FATHER
I HAVE SAID THIS MANY TIMES THAT A COP SHOULD BE IN THIS PARK SHABBOS [SAT.] AFTERNOON. WHAT WILL HAPPEN ONE DAY GOD FORBID,SOMTHING REAL BAD WILL HAPPEN AND THEN WE WILL ASK ,WHY NO ONE DID ANYTHING!PLEASE DONT WAIT!!
I MISSED THE FIGHT BY 5 MINUTES.I HAD MY 1 1/2 YEAR OLD SON PLUS MY 7 YEAR OLD GIRL THERE.I WILL TELL YOU THIS,FROM WHAT I SAW,IT LOOKED LIKE A FREE FOR ALL!! THEY THINK THEY OWN THIS PARK AND DO AS THEY PLEASE.DO YOU KNOW WHAT? MAYBE THEY ARE RIGHT.IF NOTHING IS GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT THIS,I WILL NOT TAKE MY KIDS ANYMORE THERE!!! AND GOD FORBID IT MIGHT TAKE A DEATH TO WAKE UP AGAIN.PLEASE DONT WAIT TILL THEN AND DO SOMTHING NOW!!
Happy Resident
Dear editor.
This news item seems like a real anti semitic act, two non jews hit two innocent young cute Bochrim. WRONG.
The Bochrim must have had a bad Chullent that afternoon, and they were in the park with the non jews, the Bochrim were ‘lets fight’ ‘comon lets have a fight’, I heard this from a Jewish park witness, the non jews did NOT want to fight and they were leaving the park and the Bochrim continued following them and dearing them.
Yes, our community needs better protection and better responce from the police, but cases like this one make the community sound much Much worse then it really is.
oheli torah bahcur 73------75
THIS goes back to the roots of crown hights . our problem ,is no respect 4 the Rabonimem , and the bais din of crown hights , the Rebba always says no sholom between us.=no sholom on the streets. and he said unfornately the good ones suffer, the ones who have noting to do with the probleme. like the 2 boys the 2 coussins that were nebach taken 21 and 22 years ago this time of the year . thu. is the yortezet of one tzadik . laibel kahan obm…
wake up guys work on getting the badatz together as one not just letters from one as chaver of the beais din. but a unit .
Crown Heightser
To Happy Resident:
Witness or not, carrying brass knuckles are illegal and very dangerous so no matter what the Bachurim said to them they are criminals and the Bachurim aren’t (even if the Bachurim may be stupid for starting up) and they deserve punishment for what they did.
ct
Happy Resident- are you saying the Bochurim instigated the fight?
Anyms
We have to unite as a community and show that we are not afriad of tour neighbors surrounding us like thewy have in williamsburg the goyim there n=know not to start or they will get it we need to instill the same fear in the goyim here, forget about the police there also anti semetic….
To Happy Resident......
To Happy Resident….
WAKE UP!!! It is really bad in this community. Don’t fool yourself!! Don’t try to defend the Goyim.. that’s pretty pathetic. Maybe the reason it is so bad is because of people like you who have that attitude!!!!!
jew girl
soon were going to have to carry brass knuckles switchblades and bb guns to protect ourselves
Anonymous
In reference to the comment made above by happy resident, whether you are just a bystander or a critic I dont think its your place to be judging what transpired. I happen to be one of the bochurim who were assaulted, and the story was completely the other way around. We did not instigate the fight in fact we were accompanying a 3 year old boy home when we were approached by the two hispanics. They were cursing in spanish and i repeatedly asked them what the problem was. They many times asked if i was looking for a fight, and my friend and i both replied NO. Then when we left the park THEY followed us and again cursed at us in spanish. Finally they simply ran over and from behind hit my friend and hit me while i was turning around. They then ran as fast as they could.
THIS FIGHT WAS NOT INSTIGATED BY THE BOCHURIM. And it sickens me to see members of chabad taking the wrong side and not defending your fellow jews.
surprised
the bochur who was attacked wrote a whole comment as anonymous. stand up and come forward and write your name! your comment screams out loud in every word and between the lines that you feel guilty! yes, I know many of these boys of ours who are acting stupid from time to time. I wittnesed such incidents many times such as some boys in a car or a van stopped at a light near a shvartze car or some shvartze walking on the street and the boys shouting out: hey, you want to fight? come on… we need smoe street cleaners in CH to clear the streets from the leidikgayers and send them back to school. no child will be left behind!
ALSO THERE AT THE TIME
B“H
Dear Anonymous,
Nu, what happened to the little boy?
I hope I am wrong, but it appeared to me (I was at the park then), that you were spoken to in an offensive way, but you were leaving with the little boy and, B”H you did continue on your way.
I remember thinking that I hoped you’d just ignore the offender, as you were already outside the park (walking up Albany), with the little boy, and the offender was taunting you from the other side of the fence, inside the park.
It was quite some time later when the commotion occurred (at least 15-20 minutes later), at the SW corner of Albany and Lefferts.
I hope I’m wrong, but it appears to me that you two brought the little boy to where he needed to go, and then you came back without him, and THEN this awful incident happened.
You are probably right, that the fight was probably NOT instigated by the bochurim. But, unless you two AND the little boy stayed out there arguing for all of that 15-20 minutes, SO QUIETLY AS TO HAVE NOT BEEN NOTICED BY THE HUGE CROWD IN THE PARK, before the physical assault occurred, it appeared to me that there was no need for you two to have come back to re-confront the offender.
AGAIN, I hope I’m mistaken (but in a way, I’d be relieved to know that at least the little boy was safely out of the picture during the physical assault). I just hope it wasn’t what it appeared, which is that you two CAME BACK to “settle the score”.
Please Hashem, may you both have a refuah sheleimah, and may the offender be caught and punished severely, regardless.
Remember friends, it’s about to be the NINE DAYS….BE WISE. May Hashem be merciful on our community, in a revealed way, and upon all of our people around the world.
rrr
Assault on Montgomery and troy
It happens so much that they aren’t being reported any more
be aware
until now i thought crownheights was dangertous only at night!
crown heightser
in williamsburg this would never happen because if it would those criminals wouldn’t live to see another day. this community has to wake up and show those criminals that they can’t start up with us!
TO HAPPY RESIDENT
to happy resident:
first of all, if the witness heard them say it… her could have easily stopped it. I dont think ur telling the truth here, there were very very few jews in the park… and nobody realized the bachur was hurt until it acctually happened
Open Your Eyez
Hey Crown Heights did you know that the report is probably in some trash can by now just like the boucher that got knocked out last Sunday by a Black male who lives in the building on the corner of Montgomery & troy and the boucher had to file the report a second time which at that point when the perp was apprehended with in a few hours was back on the streets the NYPD are on big legal mafia don’t fool your self’s we need to protect our self’s so I recommend that we put together a comprehensive security detail to with cameras patrols and cut all the BS differences and act like a community because one day C”V the tragedy will really hit hard and then we will all blame each other
idiots
The above IS THE TRUE STORY!.. so much for the “jewish park..er”!
ch resident
don’t leave stupid comments that you know doesn’t make sense-i’m specificlly talking to Happy Resident.
A father who cares
B”H
If what anonymous says is true I hope those 2 Hispanics get killed—fast!
We need The Macabees again. They used to be a vigilante group in Crown Heights that went around with chains.
You can’t rely on the government because when it comes to one of their own they’re all over the place. When it comes to the average citizen they care a lot less.
These are the ‘good’ Cristians. Imagine the non? Forget the stupid and arrogant police department, mayor, etc. Get out there and take the streets! Do it for King David! Due it for Torah! Do it for sanity! Do it as it’s supposed to be done!
Sorry, I won’t include my name. I heard the police dept. folks read this website. They hate ‘real’ Americans! They probably hate the Boston Tea Party. Once they’re intrenched in power they become like weeds and dead plants.
Hashgacha Pratis; the recent Perkei Avos.
anonymous
Who knows what really happened. I do not think that it is fair to judge what happened. Maybe the bochurim were innocent maybe they were! Nobody will ever know. I don’t think it is fair to jump to the conclusion that the non jews were at fault in the whole fight. You never know what really happened behind the scenes.
Wake-up call
Good Morning Fellow!!!
Unless you are in uniform, nobody is going to even think twice about saving you or for that matter search for any clues to the crime that was comitted against you.
Efraim Klein Hashem Yikom Damo, was murdered not that long ago, there is no suspect in custody yet for that crime.
All the other “petty” crimes like car break-ins, home invasion and the like that are happening all over our neighborhood, didn’t get anyone in the NYPD to move, search, investigate etc.
This is a corrupt system from the top (governor) to the very bottom (71 pct. and CHJCC) and everyone inbetween (the mayor, councilmen etc.) be happy they don’t tax the air you breath, and watch your back so they don’t stab you.
me
Gentlemen carry tazers, they’re very effective
confused
Wake-up call is dead right. Emphasis, sadly, on the “dead.”
Me…carry Tazers on Shabbos? No doubt there’ll be some who would, but that’s another story.
Happy resident…are you happy cos you’re stupid, or you’ve been smoking some funny stuff???
Meanwhile, I feel SO much better to know that a police report was filed. I’ll sleep easier tonite knowing that.
But just for the record, can someone please answer the following:
WHY do people go to this playground if this happens in the middle of the afternoon?
WHY don’t the police sit in a car outside (they have AC) & watch the local Yokels?
WHY, whenever I drive past, do I see our kids playing ball etc with Schorrim?? Are they asking for trouble? Forget diversity & PC, learn self defense.
Readers…???
eli
welcom to the 9 days, when the bad goes to worse.
crown heightser
to surprised:
Anonymous said that he didn’t pick a fight. who are you to decide that he did and that he’s guilty!? and even if he did its your job as a fellow jew to approach a problem like that in a nicer manner! and as he said before: “…And it sickens me to see members of chabad taking the wrong side and not defending your fellow jews…”.
Naate Tazerman
me wrote:
Gentlemen carry tazers, they’re very effective.
I ask:
Does Sterling Electronics carry Shabbos tazers?
Shame on You All
Everyone seems to be witnesses to the event how did you let it get to that point? How did you let it get so far?? Why are you acting like a bunch of scared Jews.
Are the Shomrim supposed to be the only people to stand up for someone????
Lefferts Park no longer for CH residnts?
I was in the park a couple of weeks ago with my 3 year and couldn’t help smell the strong stench of pot all over the place. I mentioned this to a friend sitting near me saying, can’t they at least find a street corner to smoke up rather than amond so many litlle kids?! My friend’s thoughtful response was lefferts park is probably the best place for drougies as there are never any cops around.
Maybe I will start taking my kids to play in the parking lot of the local Dunkin Dounuts. Probably safer there.
concerned
I’m really disturbed by the racist comments here. They make us all seem like bigotted reactionary jerks.Being angry about this incident is justified, but remember to keep that anger in check.
AN OLD TIME CROWN HEIGHTSER & LOVING IT
THE BOCHUR WHO WROTE AS ANONYMOUS WOULD HAVE TO BE CRAZY TO GIVE HIS NAME. HE WOULD NEVER LIVE IT DOWN WITH PEOPLE TAKING SIDES AS THEY ARE ALREADY DOING!!!! UNFORTUNATELY WHAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS TOTALLY LACKING IS AHAVAS YISROEL TOWARDS OUR FELLOW LUBAVITCHERS. WHAT GIVES A MOMZER GOY THE RIGHT TO TAUNT A YID AND FEEL THAT HE CAN AND SHOULD GET AWAY WITH IT????
ARE WE TO ADOPT THE GOOD OLD HOLOCAUST MENTALITY TO KEEP QUIET AND ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE STOMPED ON????
YES, WE SHOULD FORM ANOTHER MACABEE GROUP OR PERHAPS GET THE GUARDIAN ANGELS DOWN HERE FOR A FEW WEEKS TO MAN THE PARK.
Chaim
These comments arent racist. we learn in sefarim that all non-jews have a certain amount of hate for jews, unless they were born with a neshama( a ger i.e.). these comments are simply tryin to get the lubavitch community to take action against these hate crimes.
enough is enough
Dear concerned…perhaps its time for some real, good old fashioned where its needed!..YES, time and again these stories are taking place and perpetrated by BLACKS, HISPANICS, and any number of low-class citizens who find real enjoyment in hurting people. SAY IT AS IT IS..these people are SCUM! They should be wiped out and dealt with accordingly! As to that previous comment posted about Williamsburg…GOOD FOR THEM..I think we have to learn from them..sometimes needs to be dealt with with . Let them see that they cant get away with it.Once, twice, ten, fifteen times and BELIEVE me..they;d be all that more wary to do it again.
an upset man
its sad and i think that getting back at a person is not a smart thing to do just my say!
LoYechiB770 in Yerushalayim
It says in the gemora in meshecta berochos IM HABO LHORGECHO HASHKEIM LHORGO!!!
That is the only way to deal with the tunkeluch!!!
Upset man getting back at Goyim is very good & very Jewish!!!
a tamim
when a cop gets hurt, every single police department in the u.s. gets involved, but when it’s just some jewish citizen, who cares?
we need to use the williamsbourg method!
Stop generalizing!
To confused:
To answer two of your questions:
People take their children to that park because such incidents do not happen every day. In fact, this is the first one I heard of that happened near (not even in) the park in the past few years.
As to why people let their children play with our black neighbors, not every black in Crown Heights is looking to pick a fight. There are even some who are actually nice, caring people. When our children play together, we are fostering a good relationship between us Jews and the blacks. When these black children become teenagers, they are less likely to start up with their Jewish childhood playmates.