A 26-year-old man out for a stroll with his wife and four children in Brooklyn was the target of a vicious antisemitic attack just blocks from his home when a woman screaming she was going to “kill all the Jews” punched the young dad in the head and chest, a police source said.
The victim was walking with his family near the corner of Nostrand and Willoughby Aves. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 11:20 p.m. on Jan. 9 when a woman started following them, screaming “I’m going to choke you!” and “I’m going to kill all the Jews!” according to the police source. The woman’s disturbing rants then escalated, and she punched the young father in the chest and head, the source said.
“Basically, I was walking with my wife and kids Friday night, and a lady approached us. First she was walking across the street and screaming antisemitic things, like everything, every curse I’ve ever heard, she said. But we ignored it,” the victim said when reached by phone. “We walked down the block, then she came up to us.”
“She started saying, ‘I’m gonna kill you. I’m gonna kill all the Jews. I’m gonna choke your kids.’ And she started following me.”
He moved away from her, but she started making the same threats to his wife and children, the man said.
“I was scared the way she was talking and the way she was standing between me and my wife and the kids. So I decided I need to say something, because this is getting out of hand,” he said. “I said, ‘get out of the face of my wife. Don’t touch my wife and kids.’”
“We crossed another street. Then, all of a sudden, she said, ‘You can’t frighten me.’ And she gave me a punch on my chest first. Then I called 911. After that, I said to my wife and kids,’just continue going home, because I want to make sure you are safe.’ Because I know that if I’m going to continue walking with my wife and kids, she’s going to follow my wife and kids. Rather I should stay there and they should go home and be safe.”
“After that, she gave me another punch in my face, next to my eye.”
“I’m not a big guy, I’m not strong and she was very aggressive, like, really aggressive,” said the victim, who asked to remain anonymous. “When she said, I’m gonna choke your kids, I was really scared.”
“As of now, my kids are scared, my wife is scared,” the victim said. “I hope it will not happen again to anyone.”
Cops arrested Isharae Summers and charged her with assault and aggravated harassment as a hate crime, among other offenses. She was arraigned Sunday afternoon and released.
The victim lives around the corner from where he was attacked, according to public records.