- The boys, ages 11 and 13, were playing on the sidewalk in Williamsburg on Sunday.
- Police have not identified any suspects in the possible hate crime.
Two Orthodox Jewish children were brutally beaten by a young man on a Brooklyn sidewalk in an attack caught on video.
The boys, ages 11 and 13, were reportedly playing on the sidewalk in Williamsburg Sunday night when a man got off a Citi bike and attacked them.
Horrific video of the attack shows the adult man kicking and stomping on one of the children.
The attacker told the boys to ‘get off the sidewalk before unleashing the assault, according to reports CBS News.
Authorities said the children were treated at the scene by EMS and suffered minor cuts to the back of their heads.
The boys, ages 11 and 13, were reportedly playing on the sidewalk in Williamsburg on Sunday.
The man is seen stomping on one of the children at one point. Both children were treated for cuts.
The suspect is between 18 and 20 years old and was last seen wearing a black jacket, a black and white striped shirt, light blue jeans and white sneakers.
Police are still searching for the unidentified man and the attack is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
The suspect is described as between 18 and 20 years old and was last seen wearing a black jacket, black and white striped shirt, light blue jeans and white sneakers.
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso said on X: ‘This attack on a group of Orthodox Jewish children is disgusting.
‘Anti-Semitism has no home in Brooklyn and I am grateful that the Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating this attack. My office is following the situation.
It comes as Jewish and Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups have reported sharp increases in harassment, prejudice and physical attacks against their members in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas.
There has been a nearly 50 percent increase in anti-Semitic crimes in New York City in the first four months of this year.
According to data released by the New York Police Department, both New York City and New Jersey have become hotbeds for anti-Semitic-related crimes.
City officials have reported a 45 percent increase in hate crimes against Jews.
The attacker is seen arriving at the scene on a Citi bike Sunday night in Williamsburg.
As of April 2024, 96 such hate incidents have been reported across the Big Apple, a sharp increase from the 66 reported during the same period last year, according to police department statistics.
Police Commissioner Edward Caban explained Wednesday at a pre-Easter security briefing: “The October 7 terrorist attacks changed the public safety landscape and we are still feeling the effects of that terrible day.”
According to the Anti-Defamation League, between October 7 and the end of 2023, the agency recorded 5,204 incidents, more than the total incidents for all of 2022.
The attack on the Hasidic boys comes days after a 16-year-old suspect from East Flatbush was shot and killed in Soho by a suspect who fled on a Citi Bike.
Makhai Brown was leaving his high school in the affluent area when he tried to break up an argument between two other people and one of them pulled out a gun and shot him in the head.