Hate Crimes
A lawyer for University of Louisville student, Brown, 21, said his client has “serious mental issues” and would undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
A former board member of the Jewish Community Center in Louisville, Craig Greenberg says that Judaism plays a “very important part of my life and my family’s life.”
Craig Greenberg, who is Jewish, was in his campaign headquarters at the time of the attack.
A total of 2,255 incidents of Jew-hatred were recorded last year in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, up from the 1,684 the previous year.
The bus suffered damage, but no casualties were reported.
A total of 15 hate crimes targeting Jewish people were reported—a 275 percent increase compared to the four incidents the year before.
New York Mayor Eric Adams tweeted: “Hatred won’t be tolerated in our city. Anti-Semitic acts of violence are an attack on every New Yorker and they will be met with the force of the entire city.”
Malaki Thorpe, 18, is facing two counts of racially aggravated actual bodily harm and one count of possession of an offensive weapon.
The bullet was centimeters away from causing life-altering damage, according to her doctors • “I was saved by a miracle,” says Adi Bloy.
“I don’t understand why the bail was so low,” he said. “$1,000 is nothing. It took a while for the NYPD to catch him. How do we know he won’t now go into hiding since he is free?” asked Blake Zavadsky, who was punched in the face while shopping in December in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Suleiman Othman, a 27-year-old man from Staten Island, N.Y., is being charged with third-degree assault, along with aggravated harassment and hate-crime charges.
About 100 people gathered in support of Blake Zavadsky, who was physically assaulted in Brooklyn, N.Y., for wearing a sweatshirt that featured the emblem of the Israel Defense Forces.
