A woman was arrested on Saturday after an attack on a rabbi and another Jewish man in New York City
The New York Post reports that Anna Mochalova, 32, was arrested and is facing charges, including assault as a hate crime, after jabbing a young rabbi in Midtown Manhattan. Officials also revealed she attacked another Jewish man just minutes later.
The alleged bigot began to stalk Yosef, a 26-year-old rabbi, who is seen in surveillance video wearing traditional Orthodox garb, before stabbing him in the back with a needle near West 47th Street and Fifth Avenue on Wednesday at 5:50 p.m., according to prosecutors.
Yosef, the young rabbi stabbed with a syringe, previously told The Post he believes he was targeted because he is “visibly Jewish.”
In another incident a few minutes laters, Mochalova is alleged to have deliberately bumped into a 37-year-old Jewish man wearing a yarmulke.
Mochalova bumped into the man several times, causing a stinging sensation in his right arm, prosecutors alleged – before chillingly telling the man “run away from here. I have a gun. I’m going to shoot you.”
The man was later treated for lacerations, according to authorities.
Prosecutors also claim that a third potential victim was not harmed after he was Muslim.
Although radical leftist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is bragging about the “historic lows’ for wurders and shootings in the city, hate crimes have jumped by nearly 13%. Although Jewish New Yorkers make up only 10% of the city’s population, more than half of the confirmed hate crimes were anti-Jewish.
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