A Rockland County mailman’s attack on a 4-year-old Jewish boy is not being treated as a hate crime because cops don’t believe it had anything to do with the tot’s religion, police told The Post on Sunday.
Shocking video caught the post-office employee allegedly going postal and shoving the child to the ground when he came near him while he was working his route in Ramapo last week.
The postal worker busted after allegedly shoving a 4-year-old Jewish boy in a caught-on-camera attack. X/TheMonseyScoop
The 39-year-old United States Postal Service worker, Gabriel Stan, who neighbors said lives with his parents in Stony Point, was initially charged with endangering the welfare of a child and misdemeanor attempted assault.
Cops then slapped an extra charge of felony attempted assault after outcry from the community.
The footage shows the youngster approaching the mail carrier, who then shoves the boy so hard that the child’s yarmulke is knocked off his head and he goes flying onto the sidewalk.
The kid is then seen retrieving his yarmulke and walking away.
The phone number listed for Stan was not in service, and no one answered the door to his family’s home Sunday.
“Oh, man! That is crazy,” one of Stan’s neighbors told The Post on Sunday of the situation. “You sure?
“I have a 10-year-old, and if he ever did anything like that to my kids it would get ugly quick,” the neighbor said. “I am shocked. He never seemed like a guy who’d do that.”
US Rep. Mike Lawler (R-Hudson Valley) condemned the incident on X on Saturday.
Gabriel Stan, 39, was charged after the shocking footage surfaced. Monsey Scoop
“The video is extremely disturbing and outrageous,” he posted. “There is zero justification for this type of violence and abuse towards a child — and can be zero tolerance. There must be a complete and thorough investigation by the police and the @USPS.”
The incident occurred in a heavily Jewish Orthodox community in the suburban county, sparking concerns that it was an anti-Semitic attack.
But Ramapo police said Sunday that the incident was not believed to be a hate crime, although they did not explain why.
The postal service said in a statement to The Post: “USPS does not comment on administrative actions regarding it’s employees.”