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Jewish teenage girl in Brooklyn ‘punched at bus stop’
CCTV footage shows the attack
March 12, 2024 09:05
CCTV footage shows the attack
March 12, 2024 09:05(JNS) Surveillance camera footage appears to have captured an assault on a teenage Jewish girl in Brooklyn, NY, last Friday.
A spokesperson for the New York City Police Department said that the 15-year-old girl “stated she was waiting for the bus when an unknown suspect struck her in the left ear with a closed fist, causing pain and swelling.”
“The suspect fled on foot,” the police spokesperson added. “There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.”
I'm deeply troubled to hear about this incident. On Friday morning, around 11:30 AM, at Lefferts Ave and Troy Ave, surveillance footage captured a disturbing act of violence. The footage shows a man casually walking past a Jewish woman standing on the corner, then suddenly… pic.twitter.com/xZpvWRJLlD
Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, who works in communications for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, shared video footage from the Crown Heights Shomrim community watch group on social media and stted that the girl was Jewish.
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