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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 12:44 PM Jan 2022

Woman spits on Jewish boy, shouts antisemitic comments at children outside synagogue, police say

Source: Chron.com

New York City authorities are investigating an antisemitic attack involving a woman who spat on an 8-year-old Jewish boy outside a Brooklyn synagogue last week and allegedly told him and his young siblings that they should have been killed in the Holocaust.

The incident outside the Kehal Tiferet Avrohom Ziditshov Orthodox synagogue unfolded Friday after 12:30 p.m. Surveillance video released by the New York Police Department shows a woman dressed in an orange hoodie, black leggings and black Uggs marching up to a group of children in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn. When she got in front of the children - ages 2, 7 and 8 - she began to shout "anti-Jewish statements" at them, authorities said.

"Hitler should have killed you all," she said, according to police. "I'll kill you and know where you live." She then spit in the face of the 8-year-old boy and fled on foot, an NYPD spokesperson told The Washington Post on Thursday.

The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is now investigating the incident and searching for the woman, who has yet to be publicly identified. Police described the White woman as being in her 20s, standing 5-foot-3, weighing 140 pounds and having long black straight hair. She could face aggravated harassment charges stemming from the incident.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Woman-spits-on-Jewish-boy-shouts-antisemitic-16790702.php



Aryah Fried, the father of the three children, told CBS New York that his kids remained rattled after the woman, whom they had not seen before, approached them while they were playing outside the synagogue.

"I would hope that she understands the severity of what she did," Fried said. "To do it to anybody is obviously problematic, but for an adult to do it to a child is just beyond crazy."
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Woman spits on Jewish boy, shouts antisemitic comments at children outside synagogue, police say (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jan 2022 OP
I hope they find her ass! hamsterjill Jan 2022 #1
lock her up & give her 5 years for ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON .... her spit. She could have COVID Trueblue1968 Jan 2022 #41
Odd how the Jews are supposed to be such a problem, when they never do anything to anyone. oldsoftie Jan 2022 #2
Amen Evolve Dammit Jan 2022 #9
no no no melm00se Jan 2022 #21
The loyalty one is especially rich IronLionZion Jan 2022 #23
We have a member of congress talking about space lasers IronLionZion Jan 2022 #22
Hate Crime! McKim Jan 2022 #3
Add assault to those charges Zambero Jan 2022 #4
if u can find and catch the perp first . the poor kids must be in a state of shock AllaN01Bear Jan 2022 #25
Hope there's a security camera somewhere around. Be nice to show her face to the world oldsoftie Jan 2022 #35
Bingo. paleotn Jan 2022 #34
A silly question jmowreader Jan 2022 #5
The answer to that is really quite simple. Totally Tunsie Jan 2022 #16
She's despicable. Hope she is charged with federal hate crime. iluvtennis Jan 2022 #6
WTF is wrong with people??? Initech Jan 2022 #7
Shame on her Marthe48 Jan 2022 #8
Must have had a wonderful upbringing. Most unhinged hatred has deep origins. Look at 45. Evolve Dammit Jan 2022 #10
as a jew IAMSPARTICUS Jan 2022 #11
As a human being, H2O Man Jan 2022 #13
"I would have to fight the instinct to reduce them to a bloody puddle." sakabatou Jan 2022 #32
i aggree w u. id go full krackatoa on this female unit. AllaN01Bear Jan 2022 #26
I wonder if the police will identify and find her? Stuart G Jan 2022 #12
Definitely time for social media to kick into gear and find this woman. Lonestarblue Jan 2022 #14
I'm a little surprised at one of her comments. WinstonSmith4740 Jan 2022 #15
Actually, the far-right is rather split on that issue. Behind the Aegis Jan 2022 #27
Scary, scary people. WinstonSmith4740 Jan 2022 #28
I briefly wonder which side of the split this gentleman represents. Marcuse Jan 2022 #31
Here she is. (picture) frogmarch Jan 2022 #17
With THAT clear video Pas-de-Calais Jan 2022 #33
This sounds so fucking outlandish - was she paid by someone? harumph Jan 2022 #18
Trump and the trump humpers made this kind of hate OK. Scottie Mom Jan 2022 #19
Horrible. To actually spit in the face of a child sounds unhinged. txwhitedove Jan 2022 #20
This. GB_RN Jan 2022 #24
It's not really religion. Igel Jan 2022 #36
I Get Your Point... GB_RN Jan 2022 #37
Pretty clear photos Mz Pip Jan 2022 #29
Someone will turn her in madville Jan 2022 #30
She probably will blame the kids. That's the way cowards work. flying_wahini Jan 2022 #38
Typical batshit crazy Republican terrorist behavior. nt live love laugh Jan 2022 #39
Yay! They got her! frogmarch Jan 2022 #40

hamsterjill

(15,223 posts)
1. I hope they find her ass!
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 12:48 PM
Jan 2022

What an absolute horrible and completely unnecessary thing for some dumb ass loud mouth to do. These children will be traumatized for life. She’s a complete bully for choosing children to be the brunt of her stupidity and animosity.

Find her, charge her, spit on her, and put her ass in jail.

oldsoftie

(12,577 posts)
2. Odd how the Jews are supposed to be such a problem, when they never do anything to anyone.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 12:49 PM
Jan 2022

Haven't seen a lot of Jews here shooting up schools, robbing people, attacking Asians, randomly shooting people, ect. I'd gladly have my neighborhood full of Jewish families.

melm00se

(4,993 posts)
21. no no no
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 02:25 PM
Jan 2022

Jews

- Control all financial markets.
- Control all forms of media.
- Killed Jesus Christ.
- Don't "look like us".
- Have space lasers.
- Have no loyalty to anything other than other Jews and Israel.
- All of this was covered in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion













and just in case some didn't get it:
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IronLionZion

(45,474 posts)
22. We have a member of congress talking about space lasers
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 02:26 PM
Jan 2022

a lot of Qanon stuff is rooted in anti-Semitic conspiracies. And way too many elected officials are comfortable saying the quiet parts out loud these days.

Zambero

(8,965 posts)
4. Add assault to those charges
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 01:07 PM
Jan 2022

Spitting on someone on the midst of a global pandemic goes far beyond harassment.

AllaN01Bear

(18,307 posts)
25. if u can find and catch the perp first . the poor kids must be in a state of shock
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 03:16 PM
Jan 2022

i hope that the parental units got the kids tested for covid . if they come down with it and in my silly mind , i would view that as spitting as assult , and if one of the kids die , murder .

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
5. A silly question
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 01:15 PM
Jan 2022

If you hate Jews as much as this woman does, why would you live in New York City, the Jewish Capitol of North America?

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
16. The answer to that is really quite simple.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 02:05 PM
Jan 2022

Bigots such as this feel they are the entitled ones, and it is their right to live where they choose, and it's the Jewish people who are the infringers and who don't belong. If these bigots had their way, they would "own" NYC (and others) and banish the Jews, which basically is the sentiment this a-hole was conveying.

IAMSPARTICUS

(17 posts)
11. as a jew
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 01:22 PM
Jan 2022

i know the father's response was measured and reasonable. but come on. my response would have been to spit in her face...the best lougie i could muster. it's like watching schumer and garland....measured, soft spoken. or as right wing bigoted pieces of shit would say....pussies. those animals respond to shit like alex jones. and since trump and his ilk have gotten away with every illegal act they have ever committed, who can blame them. hey garland, you don't want to antagonize them??? WTF. pay attention. arrrggggg!

H2O Man

(73,577 posts)
13. As a human being,
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 01:41 PM
Jan 2022

with a Jewish branch on my family tree, I believe in non-violence. I do, and I think that there is a need for us to use it as a tactic today. But I also recognize human beings' right to protect their home and family. I've had a board broken over my head in a public demonstration. My only response was to grab the section that broke off when it hit my head; I still have it, and take as much pride in it as I do the numerous trophies I won while boxing as a teenager.

If some fool spit on my kids -- or any kids -- in front of me, I would have to fight the instinct to reduce them to a bloody puddle. That would be difficult. I hope I would restrain the person until the police arrived.

I am troubled by the increase of aggressive hatred and violence against the Jewish population. Obviously, against all groups. But I mention Jews because there is a group I support that should be of interest to everyone here:

https://www.bendthearc.us/

Lonestarblue

(10,030 posts)
14. Definitely time for social media to kick into gear and find this woman.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 01:46 PM
Jan 2022

She is a menace. And these types of people are such perfect t exemplars of the superiority of the white race—NOT. This country is not just for white people. Aargh.

WinstonSmith4740

(3,056 posts)
15. I'm a little surprised at one of her comments.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 01:50 PM
Jan 2022

Usually these stupid lunatics don't believe The Holocaust even happened,.

Behind the Aegis

(53,966 posts)
27. Actually, the far-right is rather split on that issue.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 03:43 PM
Jan 2022

While some clam it didn't happen, others lean into it and claim the real problem is not all of us were murdered. The term "oven dodgers" is becoming more prevalent in the on-line world, so if you see it, they are referring to Jews.

WinstonSmith4740

(3,056 posts)
28. Scary, scary people.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 03:46 PM
Jan 2022

I wish sometimes I could figure out how their minds work, but mostly I'm damn glad I don't.

Scottie Mom

(5,812 posts)
19. Trump and the trump humpers made this kind of hate OK.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 02:18 PM
Jan 2022

Who in the hell would do this to a child...except for a trump humper.

The woman who did this most surely took the innocence of childhood away.

GB_RN

(2,368 posts)
24. This.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 03:15 PM
Jan 2022

I don't care what you think of someone's religion; spitting on an innocent kid because you hate the religion they're born into is just beyond any sense of coherency or bounds of decency.

Igel

(35,332 posts)
36. It's not really religion.
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 07:47 PM
Jan 2022

It's ethnicity.

Religion is indexical--few people that "act" and "believe" "Jewish" aren't Jews. Yeah, lots of scare quotes, each deserved.

I've had a professor be a dick because he thought I was Jewish. He was explicit--he had to teach on *his* day of rest (Friday), why should he tolerate a Zionist and cut him *any* slack? Miss his final, you fail. (He only knew I objected to taking my final Saturday morning. That meant "Zionist", that meant "Jew.&quot The college administration slapped him down hard, because *they* thought this Torah-observant Irish-American was Jewish ... a college in north Jersey ... with a lot of Jewish alumni. The provost also had a stereotypically Jewish surname. I'm sure the slap-down went over well, esp. since the professor called to abjectly apologize.

I've had fundie Muslims treat me like canine anal ejecta because of my practices and denial of being a Muslim. "Non-Muslim person who doesn't eat pork" = "Jew". I wasn't insulted (etc.) because I was a Torah-observant Irish-American Xian. I was insulted because the strong assumption was I was a Jew. And all Jews are hateful Zionists. Apparently.

GB_RN

(2,368 posts)
37. I Get Your Point...
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 08:45 PM
Jan 2022

But I was thinking a little more broadly. People all over the world hate other people, simply because they're born into a different religion. Kids can't help what religion their parents are, they don't choose it and they shouldn't be subjected to hatred for it.

Not that anyone should be subjected to hatred like that. Honestly. I mean hating someone because you (not you, Igel😉, you get the idea) think your religion is the only correct one and theirs is wrong and offensive to your specific deity or your particular version of the same deity is...irrational...to say the least.

madville

(7,412 posts)
30. Someone will turn her in
Thu Jan 20, 2022, 04:37 PM
Jan 2022

Will be interesting to find out what her backstory is, a few possibilities come to mind but no point in speculating.

frogmarch

(12,158 posts)
40. Yay! They got her!
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 04:39 PM
Jan 2022

snip:
(CNN)The New York City Police Department has arrested a woman accused of harassing and spitting on an 8-year-old Jewish boy outside a Brooklyn synagogue last week, authorities said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/us/new-york-antisemitic-incident-arrest/index.html

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