{"id":211195,"date":"2026-04-27T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211195\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:19:10","slug":"man-in-iran-flag-t-shirt-punches-strangers-on-brooklyn-street-in-anti-semitic-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211195\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in Iran flag T-shirt punches strangers on Brooklyn street in anti-Semitic hate crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0 man wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an Iranian flag shouted \u201cF\u2014ing Jews!\u201d as he punched three strangers in the face in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/law-enforcement\/hate-crimes.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hate-fueled attack<\/a> on a Brooklyn street, police sources said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The three victims \u2014 Jewish men dressed in traditional Hasidic garb, ages 48, 38 and 21 \u2014 were confronted near Throop Ave. and Gerry St. in Williamsburg about 6:40 p.m. Friday. Each of them was punched in the face as the attacker yelled out his bigoted remarks, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Andrzej Wnuk, 41, was arrested shortly after and charged with assault and menacing as a hate crime as well as aggravated harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Wnuk lives in Ridgewood, Queens and has no prior arrests, according to police. He was ordered held on $20,000 bond during his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Through March 31, 80 of the 146 hate crime incidents reported citywide have been labeled anti-Semitic, NYPD <a href=\"https:\/\/app.powerbigov.us\/view?r=eyJrIjoiNTAwY2MzZWUtZTFjMy00YjQ3LTk1YWEtZGE0MDhkN2UzYTRhIiwidCI6IjJiOWY1N2ViLTc4ZDEtNDZmYi1iZTgzLWEyYWZkZDdjNjA0MyJ9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statistics show<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0 man wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an Iranian flag shouted \u201cF\u2014ing Jews!\u201d as he punched three strangers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,83494],"class_list":["post-211195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-victims-did-not-require-medical-attention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}