From the COLlive inbox:
On Shabbos afternoon, a Crown Heights father was walking home with his 9-year-old son and his son’s friend. A half a block before arriving home, the father stopped at a relative’s house to pick up another child. The boys received permission from the father to continue walking and to go ahead for the remaining half a block.
Suddenly, one teen from a group of three black youths attempted to block the boys from walking and demanded “Hug me, hug me”. One of the boys managed to slip away, but the teen trapped his friend. The 9-year-old boy refused to oblige, responding: “not today” with confidence while trying to walk away.
The teen then aggressively told the boy, “Hug me! Or else I’m going to pick you up!” When the boy refused to oblige, the teen made good on his threat and proceeded to pick up the boy while his friends laughed and took pictures.
This can all be seen clearly in the horrifying videos below (from two angles).
This story did not happen on some far-off street, nor did it happen during the night. This happened on Lefferts and Kingston, in broad daylight.
The boy who managed to slip away at first began to run towards home, but then he turned around to call for help from other Yidden he saw in the distance. When the teens saw the adults approaching, they let the boy go and walked away as though nothing had happened.
This story is not being shared in order to frighten you or scare you. It is being shared because when the parents filed a report with the police, the police asked that they share these videos and remind parents that there ARE dangers out there, and that we need to teach our children how to respond.
The police complimented both boys on how they handled the situation so well. They stressed the importance of always walking in groups which in this case actually turned out to be helpful.
Now, as the weather gets nicer, and our children start spending more time outdoors, it’s more important than ever that they are prepared. Please take a moment to speak with your children. Let them know that they should always be aware of their surroundings. Remind them that they should always walk in groups, and that if Chas V’Shalom there ever is any danger, they should run and/or scream for help.
The police also asked that the community report incidents like these, as they are on our side, and want to be able to help. When we keep them in the loop about crimes in our neighborhood, they will be able to step in and help catch the perpetrators, as well as prevent future incidents
May we only have good news to share! Stay safe.
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Disgusting!
Ok…
so for the dimwits CH residents who participated in the BLM protests just a few months ago…this is for you. Something to think about when you ”stand in solitude with our fellow neighbors”
To kill a black man causes vandalism, corruption, defunding the police, violence, etc… but for blacks to harrass us is totally normal…
i love the logic in all of this
Nothing wrong with black people. I walk past school and the’re black security guards and they tend to be the more cheerful of guards.
But everyone has their opinion.
The perps where it hurts and scream loudly to draw attention to the situation. The perps don’t want attention drawn to them nor a fight at least this level of harassment (as opposed to violent crime.
Eh… Very unpleasant – and I imagine traumatic for the boys involved. But horrifying? Not sure such rhetoric is helpful in diffusing tension.
We won’t call it horrifying. Satisfied??
What a stupid comment this is!
Would you like this to happen to YOU?? Or to your vulnerable child???
How bad does something have to be for you to call it bad???
Absolutely not. I think it would be very unpleasant and traumatic for a child.
But would I call that video horrifying? horror inducing? hmm. I think it undermines horror.
Words have meaning, – and we gotta be careful how we use em.
God Bless America
“WE CAN’T BREATHE SAFELY IN CROWN HEIGHTS, WE CAN’T. BREATHE!!!
JEWISH LIVES MATTER
Now I like that approach.
Wow the boy didn’t show fear!!
Their own behavior seems to constantly get in the way.
The Black community has 0 respect for us.
Please spread my words. JEWS are hurt , run over, attacked and the world is silent. I PREDICT BIG TROUBLE FOR ISRAEL AND JEWS AROUND THE WORLD
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awwwww that’s so cute he was only trying to hug him! we should really try to make friends with black people
Excuse me?
your joking, right?
It is quite obvious that this comment is sarcastic. So yes they’re joking.
Were these guys caught? If not, what confidence do we have in the police department? Reporting is the easy part, and then you just have a statistic.
Poor kids,that must have been so scary and traumatic,thank God they got away
Don’t put this on the parents, just do your JOB and search for and arrest the thugs. Telling them, as a solution, to ‘run and scream for help’ particularly when they are unable to get away is a truly pathetic attempt to avoid discussion about the pervading issue in Crown Heights: that the black /community’ appears to have an unhealthy obsession with Jews and seem to get away with almost all of their repeated offences. And worse, that the upstanding Jewish community are penalized whenever they take the only truly effective measures ie; defend themselves. How pathetic that he police… Read more »
If a Frum man would have done that, we would have some serious suspicions, but if your A black teen it’s called cute love awwwwww.
If we treat the black people of our neighborhood like any other normal human being, and stop virtue signaling and being overly gracious (and intimidated) maybe they will grow up to act like normal, peaceful human beings ( like most other black people).
Nothing cute, not even pretend. They chase the child and corner him and then forcibly touch him and pick him up, all while one them laughingly takes a video.
Cowards starting up with young children. Reshaim for their hatred and utter hypocrisy, and to whomever supports BLM in any way: you unfortunately help encourage and facilitate these attacks, even if that was not your attention.
Wake up!!!!
Where are all those who marched now?????
Moshiach NOW!
If only he would’ve started with me 🙂
Believe me, he would NOT come out the fight looking very happy. Or well
How do these animals get away with this. Can someone please create a petition.
Wth would a petition do? Create a task force like the good old days – beat the black until they’re white.
Please don’t insult animals. These are humans who are acting not like a human is meant to be acting.
1- suppport shomrim for watching our community 2- no child should be unable to get to camp this summer because if finances . We as a community need to do more to get our kids off these hot crime filled streets during the Long days ahead . 3- call the Precint and demand action !!!! Sorry but I don’t see any cops . The other day when they were releasing the verdict you had to see how many cops were protecting the streets while here in Jewish ch just a few. 4- they are NOT our friends , all the… Read more »
The laws of morality must be taught and not trampled on by modern society.
While I think the perpetrator needs an education about boundaries and minors, and while I strongly criticize the perpetrator’s choice of action, this seems to me like the perpetrator wanted to have some hug between a “black” and “white” “jew” as if to counter the current narrative of color and religion dis-harmony, and as if to “teach” the kid to “hug” versus “hate. All action seemed gentle. No, it’s not his role to teach, and certainly not against a stranger’s will, and certainly not involving a minor, and yes, he’s probably clueless as to appropriate rules of engagement with minor… Read more »
When entrapped and grabbed when he clearly didn’t want to be that is not love or someone trying to bridge a gap. They clearly left when an adult came. That’s guilt. You need help. You were probably at the BLM rally too. This is sick behavior by teens who know that no one will punish them.
Your comment makes me sick
Nothing cute, nothing gentle, they are not even pretending that it is, so why are you trying to pretend for them. They chase the child and corner him and then forcibly touch him and pick him up, all while one of them laughingly takes a video. They are cowards for starting up with young children. They are reshaim for their hatred and utter hypocrisy, and to whomever supports BLM or this type of behavior in any way: you unfortunately help encourage and facilitate these attacks, even if you claim that was not your attention. Wake up!!!! Where are all those… Read more »
If you were the parent and that what was your child, if you were a man and that was your wife…
Is that what you would say as well…
It’s easy to justify for yourself people’s actions until they are aimed at you.
There are so many people these days that turn an eye, or even justify, looting, violence, false reporting, maligning others, you name it… I wonder how fast they would be doing that if it was their reputation, their livelihood, their family, their child, their business, their home, their life…
I might agree. Except that the friends were standing around filming and getting their kicks out of it.
how horrible of you to validate a criminal act.
At lease the boys knew they were doing evil, your self hatred is unfathomable.
Hugging or kissing a stranger against their will is called ‘assault’ – even in secular law. Look it up in the Torte section of any academic law volume. Ignorance is a danger to the public and feeds into the narrative that attempts to reward the criminal and de-legitimize the victim.
Is called ‘assault’. I learned this in law in college. If it is not treated as such (regardless of the commenters here pretending to be in the community), then there is a serious miscarriage of justice and a precedent for other violators.
It’s time for every frum 18 year old to register to vote. We have about a half million religious Jews in ny state. If we got rid of the liberal politicians we would be safe
but only long term and real solution in reality for every Yid and every human being is Moshiach NOW! That is B”H where we are headed. May Hashem have rachmanus and may it be immediate and without further pain, stress or sorrow of any type for any person.
And how exactly could a politician stop a dumb teenager from picking up Jewish kids on the streets for his friends to take pictures?
When will these thugs leave us alone, they are here to make trouble for us these people act like they came out of the wild and continue to be wild disgusting like it says that Aisov hates Yaakov let’s make them realize they are behaving like people that are mentally ill.
Defund the police is a two edged sword. Once the law abiding citizens can’t turn to the police for our safety we will start taking care of our neighborhood ourselves and we are far less concerned about the perps feelings. Enough said.
For those of you in our community busy screaming BLM, please start putting your activist energy to helping you own, so busy screaming that the frum communities are racist, one thing is clear- you’ll never find your so called racist brothers doing such perverted criminal acts. I’m not discriminating and generalizing against the blacks i’m not saying that their all like this, but if your fellow yid expresses fear, don’t be self hating and scream racist. these crimes are shown over and over again, and your not finding violent revenge, if your horribly false claims of white supremacy truly was our… Read more »
Who remembers when the Rebbe said that we are “One community”? The “us vs them”, “Black vs Jews” mindset and comments here is not the Rebbe’s vison for the neighborhood. We have to work with Black leaders and neighbors to make sure things like this don’t happen, so we all can feel safe. Calling human beings animals is dehumanizing, and really not okay. We need to have conversations – work together in community, and that will actually foster the safety we strive for.
Disgusting and illegal to touch a child like that!
Violated social distancing for sure.
Hope he didn’t give the kids anything more….
Truths that’s assault, obvious unwanted touch and the kid is a minor. He should be arrested not just because we think so, because that is the law. Regardless of skin color.
Anyone who believes that this is not deeply traumatizing, does not understand kids . Or parents for that matter.
b-h
the community is defenseless in dealing with this kind of harassment. even older jewish kids are victims! so what do do? hire black teens as shomrim for certain blocks! pay them well! see what happens!