November 08, 2019

Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Complaints in Subway See Dramatic Rise (BS time)

Reports of hate crimes targeting the Jewish community are surging in the subway, according to police statistics, a troubling trend that mirrors what’s bubbling outside of the transit system.
As of October 20, the NYPD has logged 42 hate-crime complaints involving anti-Semitic acts in the subway this year, NYPD numbers show — a 162% increase over the number of incidents reported through that date in 2018.
They include a June 13 encounter at the Gates Avenue station in Brooklyn, where a 26-year-old man allegedly yelled “Heil, Hitler!” and “All Jews must die!” at a 33-year-old man before grabbing the victim’s phone out of his shirt pocket and flinging it at an oncoming J train, according to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. The alleged assailant faces multiple criminal charges, including a pair being prosecuted as hate crimes.