Photos Show Attacker Who Choked Jewish Man In Crown Heights: NYPD

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Police are looking for a suspect they believe shouted anti-Semitic slurs before choking and punching a man, the second of two such assaults to happen in Crown Heights this month.

Police released photos Monday night of a man accused of attacking a 52-year-old on the corner of East 46th Street and Rutland Road at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone tweeted a photo of the victim with a blackened eye after the assault, and wrote the attacker shouted, “You stole all my money and robbed me, and stole my mortgage and my house. I want to kill you!’"

The man beaten and strangled for being Jewish. In 2018. pic.twitter.com/xKbPbWL9ao
— Mordechai Lightstone (@Mottel) April 23, 2018

Police describe the suspect as a six-foot-tall man in his 40s, weighing about 200 pound, sporting a beard and wearing dark clothes.

The assault came two weeks after another man’s nose was broken on the morning of Saturday, April 14, outside the Chabad movement headquarters, Bklyner reported.

“The anti-Semitic incidents that occurred in Crown Heights over the past two weeks are horrifying and have no place in our community,” said Public Advocate Letitia James in a statement. “Hate against any group of people has zero place in New York City and will never be tolerated.”

Header photo courtesy of police