Blood Boiling Footage Shows Attempted Shabbos Mugging in Crown Heights

by CrownHeights.info

Footage of the attempted mugging in Crown Heights Shabbos afternoon has been released by Shomrim, and it can only be described as absolutely infuriating.

As previously reported by CrownHeights.info, the Jewish person, now identified as a teenage bochur, was accosted around 4:00pm by what appeared to be a teenage black male on a children’s scooter, who physically held the boy from leaving as he demanded valuables.

The entire incident took place in the area of Troy Ave and Carroll Street, within easy earshot of multiple Jewish people passing nearby.

The blood boiling footage shows that nobody intervened as the black male aggressively harassed the Jewish boy, only letting him go after it became obvious that the boy did not have anything on him.

A report on the incident was filed by the 71st Precinct, but the question of what would actually happen to the attacker if caught remains a sticky issue.

In another recent attack, Crown Heights activist Yosef Hershkop was cornered and beaten in front of his 5-year-old son by three thugs. Of the attackers, only one was ever arrested and walked free on $10,000 bail soon after.

5 Comments

  • MTL

    Sorry, but I don’t understand the mentality that says that it’s OK to stand 1/2 a block away, in the middle of the street and watch while a fellow Jew ( a child, no less) is being harassed.

  • Not exactly

    MTL,I’m sorry but not everyone is capable of stopping a mugger. Physically. You don’t want to make it worse. Also it’s shabbos and the guy can’t call the police or even threaten the mugger with the police because he doesn’t have his phone.
    You don’t judge people during an emergency.

  • bev

    If I was there I would have certainly intervened and smashed up the black mugger.

  • Mushkie

    I feel terrible for the young man, but since when is it allowed to carry on Shabbos a jacket draped on shoulders? The Levites carried the parts of the mishkan on their shoulders and the prohibitions of shabbos are derived from mishkan.