A frum child was snatched by an attacker while walking with his father to a Shabbos afternoon event at a shul in Crown Heights. The unsettling event took place around 3:30 pm on Kingston Avenue near Lefferts Avenue. Security footage shows the masked attacker passing by the father and his two children, then suddenly seizing one of the children. The father reacted by confronting the man, prompting the assailant to release the child.
The child’s mother described the attacker as “a black man, wearing a mask, who tried to grab her son, until her husband started to beat him up,” at which point the man let go of the child. Authorities are actively seeking the individual responsible for the incident.
Yaacov Behrman, Director of the Jewish Future Alliance, voiced concern over the recent string of violent events in the area. “Something is clearly going on in Crown Heights—there have been incident after incident over the past two weeks,” he remarked.
This incident adds to a series of troubling occurrences in Crown Heights over the past week. These include a violent assault on a Jewish man by two teens during an attempted robbery, a slashing attack on another Jewish man, an individual aggressively knocked to the ground, and an incident of harassment at a Kosher Cafe, where a man shouted antisemitic and anti-Israel remarks at patrons. In each case, the perpetrators were black males.

{Matzav.com}