Over the weekend, a young Orthodox Jewish man in New York was stabbed in the chest in the heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn by a man who reportedly yelled “Free Palestine” and “Do you want to die?”
Vincent Sumpter, 22, was charged with second-degree assault as a hate crime for stabbing Yechiel Michel Dabrowskin. The attack occurred around the corner from the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
“The perpetrator, a Black male in his early 20s, shouted ‘Free Palestine’ and, after an exchange of words with the victim, allegedly asked, ‘Do you want to die?’ before stabbing him,” Yaacov Behrman, a spokesman for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement posted on X.
I can confirm that a hate crime stabbing occurred early this morning in Crown Heights, around 2 a.m., near Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, close to Chabad Headquarters.
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