{"id":310906,"date":"2026-07-31T17:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310906\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:37:43","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-arrest-made-in-midwood-hate-crime-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310906\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Arrest Made In Midwood Hate Crime Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say an arrest has been made in connection to a hate crime assault in Midwood.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sean Behrens, 46, of Brooklyn, was taken into custody on Friday morning. Police say he is accused of attacking a 64-year-old man while hurling anti-Jewish remarks on July 21.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, Behrens walked up to the victim and pushed him to the ground. It happened just after 8 a.m. near Kings Highway and Ocean Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the 64-year-old suffered injuries to the back and waist.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics took him to Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital. He is expected to recover, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police released images of the alleged attacker a day after the incident. Behrens was just over a week later.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 46-year-old faces hate crime assault and aggravated harassment charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say an arrest has been made in connection to a hate crime assault in Midwood. Sean Behrens,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-310906","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\/310906","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=310906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}