New York police are searching for a man who hopped off his bicycle in Williamsburg Sunday night to attack two young Hasidic boys playing on the sidewalk.
Police said the man told the boys, 11 and 13, to get off the sidewalk and then assaulted two of them while other boys scattered away from him, WCBS reported. He hit and kicked the boys before getting back on his bike and riding away, traveling the wrong way on the one-way stree as he had been when he arrived on the scene. The boys were taken to a local hospital for treatment and are expected to be OK.
Disturbing video footage showing the perpetrator assaulting and beating kids on Franklin Avenue on Sunday night. @NYPD79Pct @NYPDBklynNorth pic.twitter.com/Fiwh8F7NQp
— Williamsburg 365 News (@Williamsburg365) May 15, 2024
“It’s just absolutely awful. I cannot believe that somebody would attack children,” City Councilmember Lincoln Restler said. “I am hopeful and confident they will identify this person and hold him accountable.”
The entire attack on the orthodox Jewish boys was caught on video, and police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.
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