NY suspect indicted for brutally assaulting Jewish man on subway

A suspect is indicted for beating a Jewish man on a New York City subway.

Neil Hurlock, 20, a Brooklyn resident, is charged with assault, menacing, robbery and aggravated harassment — all as hate crimes — as well as other charges.

On the morning of March 2, Hurlock, wearing a black face mask, followed his Jewish victim onto a train at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center subway station in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office says.

Hurlock allegedly punched the victim in the face twice, picked the victim up while striking him, threw the victim onto the subway seats, and punched him in the face several more times.

Hurlock allegedly called the victim a “Fucking Jew” during the attack.

The victim was reading a religious text and identifiable as Jewish due to his clothing, including a kippah, the district attorney says.

The attacker allegedly removed the kippah from the victim’s head before fleeing the scene.

During the attack, the defendant’s phone fell out of his pocket. The victim picked up the phone, called police, and was transported to a hospital, where he was treated for pain, bruising and swelling on his head and cuts on his hands.

The police executed a search warrant for the phone, obtained its number, and arrested Hurlock several days later after an investigation.

Hurlock was released and is set to appear in court in June.

“This defendant is accused of brutally assaulting a man in an unprovoked and senseless act of anti-Semitic hate. The impact of crimes like this radiates through entire communities and we will seek strong accountability because we have no tolerance for hate fueled violence in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez says in a statement.

Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined in New York City.