{"id":310815,"date":"2026-05-11T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310815\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:40:08","slug":"southfield-man-charged-with-hate-crime-after-alleged-antisemitic-threats-to-neighbor-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310815\/","title":{"rendered":"Southfield man charged with hate crime after alleged Antisemitic threats to neighbor, children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SOUTHFIELD, Mich. \u2013 Toby Jacob Rhodes, 54, was charged by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen D. McDonald with a hate crime after alleged Antisemitic threats to his neighbor and to children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The incident occurred on March 31, when Rhodes allegedly filmed his neighbor\u2019s three children while they were playing outside and reportedly shouted, \u201cAll Jews are murderers,\u201d \u201cAlways playing victim,\u201d \u201cKill the Jews,\u201d and \u201cKill you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Court documents revealed that Rhodes also allegedly attempted to block one of the children from riding a scooter on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A hate crime is punishable by up to two years in prison and\/or a $5,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Rhodes is also charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and ethnic intimidation for a separate incident that allegedly occurred on May 18, 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A pretrial hearing in that case is scheduled for June 2 in the Sixth Circuit Court.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHFIELD, Mich. \u2013 Toby Jacob Rhodes, 54, was charged by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen D. McDonald with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,904,145,144,5085],"class_list":["post-310815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-southfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}