Brooklyn, NY – Six years after a confrontation in Crown Heights, a Brooklyn man has been cleared of charges of bias crimes by the Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson.
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Yitzchok Shuchat, a member of Crown Heights’ Shmira patrol, was responding in 2008, to a call when he tangled with a black man, as previously reported on VIN News.
The incident took on racial overtones when prosecutors charged that Shuchat confronted Andrew Charles, the son of an NYPD officer, because he was black further escalating tensions between the Jewish and black communities of Crown Heights.
Shuchat, who was charged with assault, fled to Israel, and one year later, then district attorney Charles Hynes also charged him with assault as a hate crime.
Shuchat served four years of house arrest in Israel before he was extradited back to the United States this past summer.
The DA’s office dropped all bias charges against Shuchat, who pled guilty today to Assault in the second degree. He was sentenced to one day in jail and 25 days of community service.
“Today’s guilty plea is an appropriate disposition of this matter because the facts of the case simply did not support a hate crime and there were no serious injuries,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson.
Yitzy Shuchat is a good person who looked after a community that is always under attack by one thug or another. Muggings, thefts, car break-ins, knockouts, the new shoe “game” on little kids – you have no idea. It is thanks to Shomrim & guys like Yitzy that CH has any kind of protection, because the police don’t do anything to help us. My daughter in law was victim of a nasty crime last week & the cops didn’t show up for 45 minutes. Shomrim kept an eye on the creep till they got away from their pre-Chanukah donuts.
Oh no. Now a Yid will get mixed up in the decision that he was not guilty of racism. But Sharpton, Obama, Holder, and the rest of the black racists will insist that this is a miscarriage of justice. And we’ll have more demonstrations and riots in Brooklyn.
To #2
You are such a fool, stop pontificating that you KNOW. You clearly don’t. The shoe game is where gangs of Black teens (mainly girls) look at other kids’ shoes. If they like them they attack, yell some slogan (I forget what) & steal one of the shoes. I told my granddaughter who walks to school alone not to wear her new sparkly shoes (she is 11). Fortunately it is not as prevalent as Knockout, but it does happen. Research it. You are such an expert, you know everything. Yeah, right. If it didn’t happen to you, it didn’t happen?
the shoe game is very serious and so is the knockout punch