The NYPD is searching for a suspect who assaulted an 11-year-old Jewish girl in Williamsburg on Sunday afternoon, an attack that was captured on security footage.
The visibly Jewish young girl was approached from behind by an unidentified individual who grabbed her hair and dragged her to the ground before fleeing the scene.
The victim sustained minor injuries but declined medical attention. Surveillance video shows the suspect – an African-American teenager wearing a gray puffer coat and light-colored hoodie – attacking the girl without provocation.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is leading the investigation, as authorities work to determine whether the assault was motivated by antisemitism.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the NYPD Crime Stoppers hotline as the search for the suspect continues.
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Anti-Semitism?! No way! She probably just didn’t like her hairdo.
There should be no oprn season on Jews. This is not the 30s. My beloved parents had told us of some horrible things the Irish gangs used to do as spurned by the churches in Brooklyn, manhatten and the Bronx in the 20s-50s.
If the perp does not know the victim and targets one individual over others and that individual is visibly Jewish than the act is motivated by antisemitism.