{"id":235774,"date":"2026-05-18T20:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235774\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:03:41","slug":"man-struck-by-egg-while-praying-outside-brooklyn-mosque-nypd-hate-crime-investigation-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235774\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck by egg while praying outside Brooklyn mosque; NYPD hate crime investigation launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD Hate Crimes detectives are investigating an incident where a man was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2056108632366834133?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">pelted with an egg<\/a> while praying outside a Brooklyn mosque, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old victim was attacked outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BaitulMamurMasjid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baitul Mamur Mosque and Community Center<\/a> on Glenmore Ave. near Euclid Ave. in East New York around 3 p.m. Friday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mamdani condemned the incident in a strongly worded post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am aware of the disturbing incident targeting worshippers during Friday prayers outside the Baitul Mamur Mosque in Brooklyn, where a man praying was struck with an egg,\u201d Mamdani posted on X late Sunday. \u201cThat hateful act is unacceptable and an affront to the values that define us as New Yorkers. \u2028My administration is committed to rooting out anti-Muslim hate in all its forms and ensuring every New Yorker can live and worship in safety and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident, the department confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. A description of the suspect was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Baitul Mamur did not immediately return a request for comment on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD Hate Crimes detectives are investigating an incident where a man was pelted with an egg while praying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-235774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235774","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=235774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}