NY: Driver Rams Car Into Headquarters of Chabad Hasidic Movement
A motorist rammed his car at least four times into a side entrance of the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish movement in Brooklyn Wednesday night, according to video of the crash.
The driver was immediately arrested, the police said. There did not appear to be any injuries, Motti Seligson, a spokesman for the movement, said. The police said Wednesday night they were still investigating and had no information on a motive or charges against the driver. The car is registered to Dan Sohail, 36, of Carteret, N.J., an internal police document showed.
The episode unfolded at 8:45 p.m. at the Gothic revival structure at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. Video taken at the scene shows a gray Honda sedan, with a cargo carrier on the roof and New Jersey plates, at the bottom of a driveway. The car slams into a set of wooden doors, one of which splinters and flies from its hinges. As people look on, yelling “Yo! Yo!” and “No!,” the car backs up and hits the doors again, breaking off another door, and again and again.
As onlookers cautiously approach the car, the driver, a heavyset man with a beard, wearing shorts despite the temperature of 16 degrees, gets out and starts walking up the driveway. He agitatedly explains to a bystander, “It slipped.” Two officers walk up to him and handcuff him behind his back. He does not resist. He appears to spit at the crowd as the officers lead him toward a police vehicle.
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