From the Liveblog of
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Man charged for attacking Jews with scissors in Brooklyn
Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.
A suspect is charged with attacking Jews with scissors in New York City.
Kareem Govan, 47, is charged with seven counts including assault, menacing and harassment.
The NYPD says the suspect approached a group of males yesterday afternoon “with metal cutting shears” in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the home base of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
“The individual threatened to stab the group of males and attacked a 47-year-old male as he attempted to flee causing minor injuries,” the NYPD tells The Times of Israel.
The victim was treated on the scene, the NYPD says.
The statement does not specify whether the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, a community organizer and Chabad spokesperson, shares a video of the incident on X.
Shocking video footage of the incident. https://t.co/ykq8vUAvt2 pic.twitter.com/BKOPOVyboT
— Yaacov Behrman (@ChabadLubavitch) February 9, 2025
The footage shows a man approaching a group from behind, lunging over one’s head, and stabbing at the face of another.
Behrman tells The Times of Israel that the targets of the attack were all Jewish.
