Reply To: Lessons Learned from the False Arrest of the Innocent Tzadik in Flatbush

I reviewed the video again with the timestamps. The Tzadik spoke to the boy, who had just come out of the Shul sanctuary into the hallway, for six seconds to ask him if he could walk with him as he went through the hallway. His touching consisted of tapping the boy’s shoulder to get his attention as he came out of the Shul sanctuary. After he agreed they walked together for another six seconds halfway down the hallway to just past where most of the women were congregated. At the hallway halfway point the boy’s mother pulled her son to herself to speak to while the Tzadik continued walking alone down the other half of the hallway to the door, which took him about another six seconds, at which point he didn’t have to walk between women, and he exited alone.

The mother didn’t try to stop or to speak to the Tzadik or otherwise indicate to him anything was amiss; and he had no reason to think anything out of the ordinary.

Six seconds of normal human activity in a crowded hallway.