Reply To: Extradition of shemira member

Story is on competing websites, stolen from the daily news:

Jewish leaders are blasting Brooklyn prosecutors who areworking with Israeli officials to extradite a Crown Heights Hasid charged with a hate crime back to New York.

Top rabbis, community heads, and Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Borough Park), posted letters on freeyitzi.org supporting Yitzhak Shuchat, 28, – wanted in the April 2008 assault of Andrew Charles the son of a black NYPD cop.

Earlier this month, the Israeli court ordered Shuchat to return to Brooklyn after he fled to a suburb outside Tel Aviv where he was leaving freely for three years.

In November 2011, the Daily News reported that Shuchat had moved to Israel with his wife and children despite a warrant out for his arrest. Israel then announced plans to ship Shuchat back to the States.

Prosecutors said Shuchat, who was a member of the Shmira Jewish safety patrol at the time, jumped out of a van beating Charles with a club.

Hikind said Shuchat was responding to the call of a Jewish woman being attacked, spotted Charles, prompting the fight.

Adams said he is also questioning why the fight is being called a hate crime, a decision that could fuel another battle between blacks and Hasidic Jews.