A violent hit-and-run in Brooklyn is being investigated as a attainable hate crime, after police stated video confirmed a driver run down a Jewish man in a crosswalk and then take off.
Stunning surveillance footage confirmed the second a automotive slammed into the 55-year-old man, who’s Hasidic, as he was crossing at Albany Avenue and Union Road in Crown Heights simply after 5 p.m. Friday, police stated.
Within the video, the automotive is seen turning on the intersection, then accelerating proper into the sufferer. The person fell to the bottom and broke his leg, however is recovering.
Residents within the space are involved that one in every of their brothers within the Jewish group was struck in such a method.
“You can see from the video, didn’t seem like an accident to me. Got to be safe,” stated Usher Berkovich, who lives close by. “As a Jew, I feel like I have to be more careful and crime has been up especially on the Jewish community.”
The motive force instantly took off from the scene, and police are attempting to find out if the motive force smashed into him on function. In the event that they decide that to be the case, the motive force may face hate crime fees.
“If it was not intentional I might be very stunned as a result of he actually swerves into him on the finish
An investigation is ongoing.