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A New York grand jury indicted five Orthodox Jewish teenagers in a hate crime.

Shlomi Bitton, Yossi Friedman, Benjamin Wasserman and two juveniles were charged with second-degree gang assault and third-degree menacing, according to a statement issued Thursday by Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes and reported in Newsday.

Orthodox Teenagers Indicted in Hate Crime

JTA – Breaking News

A New York grand jury indicted five Orthodox Jewish teenagers in a hate crime.

Shlomi Bitton, Yossi Friedman, Benjamin Wasserman and two juveniles were charged with second-degree gang assault and third-degree menacing, according to a statement issued Thursday by Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes and reported in Newsday.

On Oct. 29, Shahid Amber, 24, an immigrant from Pakistan, was eating an ice cream outside a Brooklyn Dunkin’ Donuts when he was approached by a group of teenagers who taunted him, called him a terrorist, kicked and punched him and pushed him against a wall. He was treated for a broken nose and other injuries.

The juveniles will be tried in family court; the three others face sentences of up to 15 years.

38 Comments

  • Disgusted

    We already know the outcome. Why bother having a “trial”?

    Where are all our “leaders” now, when these boys need them?

  • Sadly

    What these boys did was wrong. If this unprovoked attack were reversed, you would demanding justice.

  • chill

    Before you get “disgusted,” wait a little. Maybe the story takeh happened the way it is reported. Maybe, just maybe, they punkt happened to harrass the Pakastani who wasn’t involved in terrorism.

  • a ch

    are all these boys lubavitch b/c if they are its such a chillul lubavitch and a mojor chillel hashem

  • 123

    dear digusted

    i think 15 years is a bit much but they deserve to be punished, there is no excuse for such behavior

  • Eben Handed

    This is truly apalling. Our Boys comitting bigoted acts of violence- How frightful!

    These boys need to be punished – no double standard.

  • oh, come on

    The boys were absolutely wrong and they should certainly know better. I only wonder, had it been the other way around, the law would be much more lenient, FOR SURE. In any case, let’s learn from this incident.

  • apalled!

    these are most probably the boys who our local yeshivos threw them out,instead of working with them.dont worry,there are much more out there!

  • confused

    and when these shvartzes beat up a boy on yom kippur or when someone kills e. klein in middle of the night- nothing happens. and many other examples. why only when we do something small to goyim we are punished severly but they get away with everything. this system makes absolutely no sense- 15 year?!!

  • jack

    Excuse me disgusted, but why should these kids get let off. They committed a vicious and violent crime and they should be treated just like any violent criminals. It’s very nice to be Melamed Zechus on Jews, but there’s no reason that they deserve preferential treatment.

  • Hate crime????????

    Whatever the punishment is for beating someone up, should be given to someone who beats up another person. It’s immoral to add to a sentence because of what they were thinking or saying.
    Yes I would say the same thing if it were the other way around.
    Who cares why someone committed a crime it doesn’t make it worse if it’s a hate crime if you love me and beat the heck out of me you deserve to go to jail. If you hate me and leave me alone you don’t.

  • Still disgusted

    My G-d!!

    You all condemned them without a second thought. Straight away they “did it.”

    Why do we need Goyishe anti-semites if you guys step up to the plate?

    DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYONE OF YOU BELIEVES THEY’RE GUILTY!!!

    Doesn’t it occur to you morons that they MAY JUST BE INNOCENT??

    Ever heard of innocent until proven guilty?

    In the court of public opinion, not only are these kids guilty, they’re locked up for life. And you can only guess what that means for three Jewish boys.

    you all make me sick.

  • Confused

    I really dont know what to say.
    LIke why would kids, jews,
    lubavitures go out and do this.
    Its just crazy.
    MOSHIACH NOW!!!!!!!

  • eli

    wonderful keep up the good work!
    what fiften years they will walk of with a max. of community serivce or house arrest the person who wrote the artical shouldn’t be scaring people

  • A Shliach

    I couldn’t have said it better myself.
    —-

    Still disgusted wrote:

    My G-d!!

    You all condemned them without a second thought. Straight away they “did it.”

    Why do we need Goyishe anti-semites if you guys step up to the plate?

    DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYONE OF YOU BELIEVES THEY’RE GUILTY!!!

    Doesn’t it occur to you morons that they MAY JUST BE INNOCENT??

    Ever heard of innocent until proven guilty?

    In the court of public opinion, not only are these kids guilty, they’re locked up for life. And you can only guess what that means for three Jewish boys.

    you all make me sick.

  • Charlie

    I don’t know what happened, I wasn’t there. I am not going to blame our/or not our boys until I see the guilty verdict, G-d Forbid. But what really bothers me is the fact that a lot of people are fast to blame and call for punishment; I thought it was innocent until proven guilty and not the other way around. And most of all, do you think if it was other way around the other party would blame their boys for what happened. No way they would blame our boys for being in the way of an innocent guy who was just swinging his fist around and absolutely accidentally hit one our boys who got in the way, well, or something like that. There are plenty of hate crimes against us that go unpunished. Even murderer gets dismissed on some technicality. Common folks, let stick for our own until we know for fact that they are guilty and then start saying how terrible they are.

  • DISGUSTED/CONFUSED II JR.

    what is the real story(you never know what the pakistani did to make these boys hurt him)?
    15 YEARS IS NOT NORMAL.

    innocent until proven guilty!
    MOSHIACH NOW!!!

  • DISGUSTED/CONFUSED JR. II

    WHAT IS THE REAL STORY? YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE PAKISTANI DID TO MAKE THESE BOYS WANT TO HURT HIM AND REACT THIS WAY!
    THERE IS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING AND THESE BOYS HAVE ONE TOO.

    INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY (WHICH I HOPE THEY R NOT)
    MOSHIACH NOW!!!

  • talmid of oheli torah 73----76

    charlie yr so right . thanks for sticking up 4 jews .. we should stick together . g-d bless you …u said it all
    we dont need capos the war is over lefty`s.
    hashem yeracame on the boys
    moshiac now !!!!

  • whatever

    They were from Boro Park and didnt choose a random victim. He did s/t to provoke them.

  • upset

    By the way its not right but why shouldnt they get aways with it when others do
    they just decided to show they werent just gonna let it slide like we usually do
    yesterday 3 arab kids thru a baseball at our car
    if it had been the other way around (which it wouldnt because it never is)
    i dont even want to think of what would happen

  • hello!!!!????

    how come when a shvartze hurts a jew he doesn’t get 15 yrs???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

  • sick and tired

    A shvartze beat the crap out of my brother. And he was 18 and he went to jail for one night.

    What the hell.

    Im sick and tired of these stupid people.

    They never put the blacks in jail for long. And theyre trying to put jewish children in jail for 15 yaers????

  • chaim

    all of you should have no heart ok i understand what they did was wrong but 15 years thats crazy if your kid made a mistake and did a nonsense crime and got those kind of years i want to see how all you guys should feel to love a fellow jew no matter what you guys discus me

  • fellow yid

    these boys r our brothers! they r part of klal yisroel! how could anyone wish bad upon another frum families children? WHAT”S WITH ALL OF YOU!!! we are in gallus and its eisav sonei liyaakov! whether they r lubavitch, sephardi, or yeshivish! they r still our brethren and we must daven for them!!!