18yo brooklyn man arrested for attacking an orthodox jewish man, hours after being released for stealing orange juice

[Sugar Cookie]

An 18-year-old man has been arrested in Brooklyn after surveillance video showed him attacking an Orthodox Jewish man with a tree branch on Monday afternoon.

The footage shows the 26-year-old victim, dressed in a black suit and hat, crossing Empire Boulevard at Albany Avenue in the Crown Heights neighborhood when he is confronted by the suspect, identified as Shervy Taylor.

The victim reaches the front door of Stan’s French Cleaners, but before he has a chance to enter the suspect bludgeons him with such force that the stick breaks into three pieces,

Taylor attempted to flee, but three men, including the owner of the dry cleaning business, pursued him on foot and eventually cornered him in Lefferts Park.

Another video obtained by ABC7 shows the accused attacker lying supine on the ground, surrounded by several bystanders.

When Taylor makes an attempt to get up, someone puts a foot on his chest and pushes him back down.

The 26-year-old victim was taken to a hospital to be treated for his injuries and later released.

According to police, just hours before the unprovoked assault on the Jewish man, Taylor had been arrested on a petit larceny charge for allegedly stealing orange juice from a local deli, but was quickly released.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Orthodox-Jewish-man-tree-branch-Brooklyn.html

 

[Siobhan]

Kudos the white sneakered ninja , TaeKwan!

 

[Exodus]

Why is it so Important that the Victim is "Jewish"? That was mentioned something like 5 times, yet nothing more to this article indicates that being the reasoning behind the assault, is it worse to hit a Jew than someone of a different religion?

 

[Sejanus]

Give this creep a public flogging

 

[Satanica]

I'm pretty sure he would've gotten one, too, if it wasn't illegal. Just a punk or off his meds or on his dope?

 

[thatsmallgrl]

I wonder if the store he stole the orange juice from was run by a Jewish person. It seems incredibly stupid to be released and immediately attack someone.

Maybe he was specifically looking for Jewish person to attack because of the recent arrest.

Also, who the fuck steals orange juice?

 

[Siobhan]

Why is it so Important that the Victim is "Jewish"? That was mentioned something like 5 times, yet nothing more to this article indicates that being the reasoning behind the assault, is it worse to hit a Jew than someone of a different religion?

Perhaps because the victim is an Orthodox Jew, and that makes him easier to spot or single out, due to his dressing customs, hat and sidelocks.