Friday, November 03, 2006
Hate Crime Charges Filed Against Five Jewish Teenagers in Brooklyn
Five Jewish teenagers have been charged with hate crimes for attacking a Pakistani-American man with brass knuckles in the Midwood section of Brooklyn and calling him a "terrorist," officials said.
Shahid Amber, 24, said in an interview last night he was eating ice cream near a Dunkin' Donuts at the corner of East 15th Street and Avenue M, when he was approached by a group of five teenagers at about 8:15 p.m. on October 29. They knocked the ice cream from his hands, called him a "terrorist" and told him: "Go back to your country," he said.
The teenagers held his arms behind his back and began beating him with a pair of brass knuckles, breaking his nose and leaving his torso covered in bruises, he said. Doctors told him he would need surgery to correct the damage done to his face.
Police arrested the five teenagers soon after the attack. Three were identified as Yossi Friedman, 17, Shulomi Bitton, 16, and Benjamin Wasserman, 16. Two 15-year-olds that were arrested were not identified because of their age. They all lived in the vicinity of the street corner where the attack happened.
The alleged perpetrators were charged by the Brooklyn district attorney with a number of crimes, including assault in the first degree, assault in the second and third degree as hate crimes, gang assault in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a spokesman said. For the most serious charge, assault in the first degree, they face between eight and a third and 20 years in prison, the spokesman said.
http://www.nysun.com/article/42836
Five Jewish teenagers have been charged with hate crimes for attacking a Pakistani-American man with brass knuckles in the Midwood section of Brooklyn and calling him a "terrorist," officials said.
Shahid Amber, 24, said in an interview last night he was eating ice cream near a Dunkin' Donuts at the corner of East 15th Street and Avenue M, when he was approached by a group of five teenagers at about 8:15 p.m. on October 29. They knocked the ice cream from his hands, called him a "terrorist" and told him: "Go back to your country," he said.
The teenagers held his arms behind his back and began beating him with a pair of brass knuckles, breaking his nose and leaving his torso covered in bruises, he said. Doctors told him he would need surgery to correct the damage done to his face.
Police arrested the five teenagers soon after the attack. Three were identified as Yossi Friedman, 17, Shulomi Bitton, 16, and Benjamin Wasserman, 16. Two 15-year-olds that were arrested were not identified because of their age. They all lived in the vicinity of the street corner where the attack happened.
The alleged perpetrators were charged by the Brooklyn district attorney with a number of crimes, including assault in the first degree, assault in the second and third degree as hate crimes, gang assault in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a spokesman said. For the most serious charge, assault in the first degree, they face between eight and a third and 20 years in prison, the spokesman said.
http://www.nysun.com/article/42836
Comments:
Those kids are not going to go to jail. A Jewish lawyer is going to convince the judge to send them to Israel for "punishment" Then they will go do israeli girls as their "punishment"
RE: Anonymous @ 2:45PM
But how would that work?
These are very serious charges against them. For the 15 year old kids...maybe, but for the other ones, I do not think it will work.
Moreover, let us say they are going to go to Israel, what are they going to do then? Beat up some more Muslims? How will the court allow it?
Now I have no sympathy for "Muslims” and I think that they should be sent out of Israel and America. I just hope these kids get off easy, but I do not see it happening.
What we really need is MOSHIACH NOW!
AD MATAI?!
-Israel
But how would that work?
These are very serious charges against them. For the 15 year old kids...maybe, but for the other ones, I do not think it will work.
Moreover, let us say they are going to go to Israel, what are they going to do then? Beat up some more Muslims? How will the court allow it?
Now I have no sympathy for "Muslims” and I think that they should be sent out of Israel and America. I just hope these kids get off easy, but I do not see it happening.
What we really need is MOSHIACH NOW!
AD MATAI?!
-Israel
" I just hope these kids get off easy"
if the shoe was on the other foot you would be screaming bloody murder ,what they did was wrong and should pay the penalty I'm no big fan of muslims but let make the game fair to everyone.
if the shoe was on the other foot you would be screaming bloody murder ,what they did was wrong and should pay the penalty I'm no big fan of muslims but let make the game fair to everyone.
These chevra are street bums(what is a yeshiva boy doing hanging in dunkin donuts anyway),who should be locked up for years to come. One of them is a Yeshiva Tora Temima dropout(they knew who they were throwing out!!).
These kids have been causing tzoras to their "landsleit" for years ,now they have started up with the opposing team,and we will suffer the consequences.
You know,I dont feel bad for these "kids at risk";they should all be avoided and treated like the plague that they are!
We do`nt need them(or their parents)in our schools and shuls.
At risk
These kids have been causing tzoras to their "landsleit" for years ,now they have started up with the opposing team,and we will suffer the consequences.
You know,I dont feel bad for these "kids at risk";they should all be avoided and treated like the plague that they are!
We do`nt need them(or their parents)in our schools and shuls.
At risk
to anon 8:53
I don't know what type of person you are, but to put my comments in context:
I am 100% anti violence, anti religious hatred, and a big fan of the hate crime laws.
BUT
I know the ignorance of teenage boys in general, and frum boys specifically.
Despite how wrong wrong wrong what they are accused of is, prison is not the right punishment in this setting.
Why?
Even a streetwise 17 year old is in mortal danger in prison, can you imagine what it will be like for a skinny white jewish 17 year old?
They will be raped the first night and tortured every day after. Their life will be over, probably infected with HIV when they are released.
I don't know what type of person you are, but I can't imagine anyone wishing that stupid teenagers that did a really really stupid spontaneous act, should be punished that way.
You should read:
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
before you open your ignorant mouth.
Maybe we can have you spend a night in prison and have your white ass raped before you'd be so quick to put these teenagers in that position.
I don't know what type of person you are, but to put my comments in context:
I am 100% anti violence, anti religious hatred, and a big fan of the hate crime laws.
BUT
I know the ignorance of teenage boys in general, and frum boys specifically.
Despite how wrong wrong wrong what they are accused of is, prison is not the right punishment in this setting.
Why?
Even a streetwise 17 year old is in mortal danger in prison, can you imagine what it will be like for a skinny white jewish 17 year old?
They will be raped the first night and tortured every day after. Their life will be over, probably infected with HIV when they are released.
I don't know what type of person you are, but I can't imagine anyone wishing that stupid teenagers that did a really really stupid spontaneous act, should be punished that way.
You should read:
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
before you open your ignorant mouth.
Maybe we can have you spend a night in prison and have your white ass raped before you'd be so quick to put these teenagers in that position.
to anon 10:17
FYI, the book is an autobiography, a TRUE story, and I know the author.
Whatever, I disagree with you completely but have no interest in debating any further.
I'm not even frum anymore. I just think it's odd that I care more about what happens to people from a community I don't even belong to any more, while people from their community are throwing them to the wolves. Very sad.
FYI, the book is an autobiography, a TRUE story, and I know the author.
Whatever, I disagree with you completely but have no interest in debating any further.
I'm not even frum anymore. I just think it's odd that I care more about what happens to people from a community I don't even belong to any more, while people from their community are throwing them to the wolves. Very sad.
10:32 - you've intrigued me. What do you suggest they do with these boys? They did something very wrong- against Torah thought and the law. They are troubled and troublemakers. Send them to jail and they get raped. Keep them safe and then they learn they can do what they please. Yes they did a stupid thing, but how spontaneous could it have been? They riled themselves up and behaved like a mob. FYI people from our community are not throwing them to the wolves. There are people out there trying to set these kids up with counsel. Still, it doesn't erase the fact that these boys shamed our community. We are embarrassed by what they did. When people say send them away they probably don't hear what they're saying. They probably want to disassociate from the incident.
They will never learn;for years the institutins they were in tried and failed;thse kids are delinquents who have NO CHANCE of getting back to normal (not specificaly frum)society. let them get AIDS or die of an overdose,or become homeless,at least that way only they and not the community,suffers.
I don`t particularly care about them surviving,they are "rodphim",and on top of that, have a din of "ben sorer umoreh".
Do not waste your tears on these dregs of society.
Flatbush guy
I don`t particularly care about them surviving,they are "rodphim",and on top of that, have a din of "ben sorer umoreh".
Do not waste your tears on these dregs of society.
Flatbush guy
Anonymous : November 05, 2006 3:32 AM
My G-D, you do not know a thing about me, and already decided that I never read the Qu'ran.
I have read it more than once, and can give you a full list of hate filled quotes.
Explain this:
O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard. (9:123)
There are many more such verses, if you want a full list why not e-mail me.
And to “anonymous” who posted on November 04, 2006 at 8:53 PM who called me an "ignorant zionist", I'm not going to deny that I'm a Zionist, actually I'm proud of it. [As for being “ignorant”, this poster couldn’t even capitalize “Zionist”.]
Islam should be outlawed. Every Muslim should be arrested and deported. I sort of agree with the guy from www.bombislam.com.
Instead of labeling me with names, such as "ignorant zionist", why not have a civil debate. Name-calling is the defense for only the non-thinker.
You can e-mail me to further discuss Islam since I do not want to take this blog off topic, unless Chaptzem! allows it.
You can also come to the forum on my website, www.israelappel.com where we can discuss it there.
-Israel
My G-D, you do not know a thing about me, and already decided that I never read the Qu'ran.
I have read it more than once, and can give you a full list of hate filled quotes.
Explain this:
O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard. (9:123)
There are many more such verses, if you want a full list why not e-mail me.
And to “anonymous” who posted on November 04, 2006 at 8:53 PM who called me an "ignorant zionist", I'm not going to deny that I'm a Zionist, actually I'm proud of it. [As for being “ignorant”, this poster couldn’t even capitalize “Zionist”.]
Islam should be outlawed. Every Muslim should be arrested and deported. I sort of agree with the guy from www.bombislam.com.
Instead of labeling me with names, such as "ignorant zionist", why not have a civil debate. Name-calling is the defense for only the non-thinker.
You can e-mail me to further discuss Islam since I do not want to take this blog off topic, unless Chaptzem! allows it.
You can also come to the forum on my website, www.israelappel.com where we can discuss it there.
-Israel
i am very troubled by the posts i am reading here from jews that are attacking these boys in the harshest of terms, without hearing their side of the story. the story that is being reported by the media is all based on what the "victim" amber said happened. All you moral jews just rush to lash out at them without even being "dan" them "lzchus". You should be ashamed of yourselves. i happen to know that the story could not be further from the real truth. "Innocent" actually started up with the boys both verbally and physically. the boys tried to get away from him to no avail. when he continued with his verbal and physical tormenting they finally hit back. granted they hit hard and broke his nose (find me a person that gets hit with brass knuckles in the face several times and still has a face= there obviously were none). the boys waited for the police to come since they called them and wanted to tell the story of how this guy started everything...but when the police came amber told them a completely different and false story...the story which you all rushed so quickly to believe and stand on...and the boys were arrested for a hate crime which they certainly never commited.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves, and should ask each boy and their familys for mechila...and if I were them I wouldnt be so quick to grant it to you.
speaking of families: the stupid comment (amongst many) submitted at November 05, 2006 12:56 AM: regarding ostracizing the boys and their families from our shuls and yeshivas: your just an idiot. plain and simple idiot.
and for shmucko that posted November 04, 2006 8:53 PM about paying to have the boys sent off to jail. you obviously have more problems than any of these boys and should seriously do some soul searching. even if these boys had committed the crimes that they are being accused of (which once again...they did not), they are still young and certainly would be better off with love rather than with your wrath. you should put that money (which im sure you dont even have) towards better causes...and you can start with helping the boys.
as things stand now, this is pidyun shivuyim in the greatest sense and these boys could use you tefilos and certainly your support.
there is also A LOT more details which i can not share with you at this time regarding the truth of this entire story that amber is claiming. the ENTIRE story is false...and you will hear more details once the case starts.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves, and should ask each boy and their familys for mechila...and if I were them I wouldnt be so quick to grant it to you.
speaking of families: the stupid comment (amongst many) submitted at November 05, 2006 12:56 AM: regarding ostracizing the boys and their families from our shuls and yeshivas: your just an idiot. plain and simple idiot.
and for shmucko that posted November 04, 2006 8:53 PM about paying to have the boys sent off to jail. you obviously have more problems than any of these boys and should seriously do some soul searching. even if these boys had committed the crimes that they are being accused of (which once again...they did not), they are still young and certainly would be better off with love rather than with your wrath. you should put that money (which im sure you dont even have) towards better causes...and you can start with helping the boys.
as things stand now, this is pidyun shivuyim in the greatest sense and these boys could use you tefilos and certainly your support.
there is also A LOT more details which i can not share with you at this time regarding the truth of this entire story that amber is claiming. the ENTIRE story is false...and you will hear more details once the case starts.
I was one of those kids at risk and I did not have an easy time at home or in my five high schools, but I always thought other Jews like my parents (both loving parents and not fakers) and my rebbes even in the worse schools woudl never think or talk like the incredibly nasty comments I have read today. I know some of those boys in Brooklyn's brothers and I have asked my father a crimial lawyer to help. BTW for all of you who want to throw us kids at risk to the dogs, today I known as a big masmid in BMG. I love BMG and the torah menshen I live and learn with and do not believe they would talk so harshly about a kid at risk. Yes I am on my back to BMG to keep my siderim. Since this is all anonymous I know most of seder nashim baal peh so maybe you should lighten up on kids at risk so turn up in BMG without hang ups.
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