(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force has arrested a man accused of punching a Hasidic man in the nose early on Saturday, Jan. 22 in Crown Heights.
Babyson Dumervil, a 24-year-old from Brooklyn, has been charged with assault.
Arrest Update
Hate Crime Task Force Detectives, assisted by Brooklyn South Warrants, apprehended the individual wanted for this crime.Arrested:
Dumervil, Babyson 24
Brooklyn, New YorkCharge:
Assault https://t.co/fpN56beaP9— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) February 1, 2022
In the wake of the early Shabbat morning attack — in which Dumervil allegedly crossed a street and punched a 21-year-old Hasidic man in the face at Troy Ave. and Carroll St. — the Anti-Defamation League offered up to $5,000 for information about the person responsible for the attack.
According to CrownHeights.Info, the victim was identified as a yeshiva student; his eyeglasses were broken and his face was lacerated in the unprovoked attack.
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Dumervil’s arrest follows the apprehension of a suspect in another high-profile antisemitic incident in Brooklyn in January: On Jan. 14, a woman approached three Jewish children in Marine Park neighborhood, spat on one child and told them: “Hitler should have killed you all.”
The following week, the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force arrested Christina Darling, 21. She faces charges of menacing and aggravated harassment — both hate crimes — as well as acting in a manner injurious to a child.
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