A man stabbed on a subway platform during a spat with two men said he had the upper hand until the toughs pulled out a blade.
Emil Benjamin, 30, was on a southbound F train approaching a station at Fourth Ave. and Ninth St. in Park Slope when the two men started cursing him out with anti-Semitic slurs about 9:40 p.m. Monday, he said.
“They said, ‘You’re nobody, you Jewish bastard,’ ” Benjamin said.
Benjamin, a Kavkazi Jew, and a loan broker from Bensonhurst, punched one of the brutes in the mouth, busting his lip open. But as the duo ran away, Benjamin felt something pouring down his back.
“I felt blood gushing out of my back and my left leg,” he said. “It was sizzling hot, like a hot shower. My blue jeans were red. My sneakers were soaked with blood.”
As bystanders called for help, Benjamin, who was stabbed in the back and left thigh, spotted a blood-soaked knife on the concrete platform. He was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center, and cops busted the suspects nearby.
Rafael Padin, 22, and Jose Santos, 18, were charged with assault. Padin, who sliced his own hand during the stabbing, was also slapped with criminal possession of a weapon.
Police said they are not investigating the incident as a hate crime.
“If it was just fists, I might have been able to fight them off,” Benjamin said. “But I couldn’t handle all the blood. “
Still, Benjamin said, no one should ever resort to violence. “The best thing to do is walk away with a smile,” he said. “Smile to life, and life will smile to you.”
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7 Responses
Why is it NOT a hate crime if it started from anti-Semitic slurs?!?!?
This is the reason why you never get physical with these guys. Many of them carry knives and they will kill you for no reason.
You have to love the liberwackyness of this. They made up this thing called “hate crime” for hating someone & “domestic violence” when you “love” someone.
To AinOhdMilvado,
Hate crime in America is when you call a black or Hispanic name. Hate crime in Europe and Israel is when say the emmes about Arabs that they are murderers, rapists, and thieves.
When Jews are verbally and/or physically assaulted, that’s only, you know, you know, you know, well that’s nothing.
Glad to see people standing up to anti semites.
“Police said they are not investigating the incident as a hate crime.”
Although I am a strong supporter of the NYPD… this if true is insane. Either parts of this story are missing or the local precinct is trying too hard to keep it’s crime stats down.
I hope that the Brooklyn DA’s office will persue this matter as a real hate crime and charge these two accordingly.
From this article it sounds like this Benjamin was the first to get physical…