A nine-year-old Lubavitch boy was threatened with a knife by a teenager screaming “I will kill you, Jew,” and “heil Hitler” at a public playground in Crown Heights, police have said.
A nine-year-old Lubavitch boy was threatened with a knife by a teenager screaming “I will kill you, Jew,” and “heil Hitler” at a public playground in Crown Heights, police have said.
The disturbing scenes unraveled at KIPP AMP Middle School and MS 354 in Crown Heights on Monday evening.
Chaya Sundroy, the victim’s mother reported her son was targeted within minutes of their arrival and that her daughter was also attacked.
“My kids were shaking, they were crying. They asked why,” the mother said. “We didn’t do nothing to him, why they say that, why they want to killed us. They were really, really scared about it.”
Police said the hateful teen was also heard shouting “heil Hitler”, a scream Sundroy said was aimed at her daughter.
Additional sources told The New York Post that several people allegedly joined in the attack shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
A boy in the group then flashed a knife, the woman and police have said. Sundroy said she is not certain whether the person who shouted at her son was the same person who yelled at them.
The group ran off as soon as police were called to the scene and no one was injured.
NYPD have said they are investigating the incident as a “possible biased incident” and are seeking for one person.
The city has experienced a spike in hate crimes against Jewish communities since the start of the war.
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