{"id":211767,"date":"2026-04-27T21:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:43:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-faces-hate-crime-charges-for-allegedly-punching-3-jewish-men-in-the-face-in-williamsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211767\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Faces Hate Crime Charges For Allegedly Punching 3 Jewish Men In The Face In Williamsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Queens man is facing hate crime charges for allegedly punching three Jewish men in Williamsburg, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Andrezj Wnuk, 41, is accused of carrying out the attacks in the span of just three minutes on Friday evening, targeting men wearing traditional Hasidic attire.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Wnuk allegedly uttered phrases like \u201cJew\u201d and \u201cYou Jew\u201d immediately before punching each man in the face, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Wnuk allegedly attacked the first man around 6:40 p.m. at Lorimer Street and Throop Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say the second assault happened two minutes later at Harrison Avenue and Lorimer Street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One minute later, a third man was attacked near Walton Street and Throop Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The men, aged 48, 38, and 21, declined medical attention, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police arrested Wnuk at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He faces a slew of hate crime charges, including assault, attempted assault and menacing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Wnuk was arraigned Saturday and his bail was set at $5,000 cash\/$20,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is due back in court Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens man is facing hate crime charges for allegedly punching three Jewish men in Williamsburg, prosecutors say.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-211767","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211767","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=211767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}