NYPD arrests Brooklyn man who punched Hasidic man in the face
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NYPD arrests Brooklyn man who punched Hasidic man in the face

By Lisa Keys / JTA February 1, 2022, 6:51 pm Edit
The NYPD has arrested a man, pictured here in a surveillance video, suspected of assaulting a Jewish man in Crown Heights early on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. (NYPD Twitter)
The NYPD has arrested a man, pictured here in a surveillance video, suspected of assaulting a Jewish man in Crown Heights early on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. (NYPD Twitter)

The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force has arrested a man accused of punching a Hasidic man in the nose early on Saturday, Jan. 22 in Crown Heights.

Babyson Dumervil, a 24-year-old from Brooklyn, has been charged with assault.

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In the wake of the early Shabbat morning attack — in which Dumervil allegedly crossed a street and punched a 21-year-old Hasidic man in the face at Troy Ave. and Carroll St. — the Anti-Defamation League offered up to $5,000 for information about the person responsible for the attack.

According to CrownHeights.Info, the victim was identified as a yeshiva student; his eyeglasses were broken and his face was lacerated in the unprovoked attack.

Dumervil’s arrest follows the apprehension of a suspect in another high-profile antisemitic incident in Brooklyn in January: On Jan. 14, a woman approached three Jewish children in Marine Park neighborhood, spat on one child and told them: “Hitler should have killed you all.”

The following week, the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force arrested Christina Darling, 21. She faces charges of menacing and aggravated harassment — both hate crimes — as well as acting in a manner injurious to a child.

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