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Behind the Aegis

(55,656 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 12:11 AM Sep 5

(JEWISH GROUP) Man charged with hate crime for chasing woman and child in Queens, yelling 'Kill the Jews!'

A 53-year-old man was arrested after he chased a woman pushing a stroller with a small child in it down a Queens street as he brandished a metal pipe and spewed anti-Semitic hate, police said on Friday.

The 59-year-old victim was pushing a 7-year-old in a stroller outside of Khal Chassidim of Bayswater synagogue on Westbourne Ave. in Bayswater shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday when a man wielding a metal pipe started chasing them and yelling, “Kill the Jews!” according to a criminal complaint documenting the incident.

The man chased them for about a block, when the woman and child managed to escape unhurt into a house, where they called the police.

Cops arrested Courtney Bryan, 53, at the scene. Bryan is charged with menacing, harassment, stalking and endangering the welfare of a child as hate crimes, as well as criminal possession of a weapon, according to court documents.

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(JEWISH GROUP) Man charged with hate crime for chasing woman and child in Queens, yelling 'Kill the Jews!' (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Sep 5 OP
I am so sorry, BtA. sheshe2 Sep 5 #1
Thanks sheshe, but, honestly, I am almost desensitized to it. Behind the Aegis Sep 5 #3
Desensitized, and that is so sad. sheshe2 Sep 5 #4
What the hell is wrong with people? Hate crimes, indeed Deuxcents Sep 5 #2
Over 50 years of conscious experience and this is the best he can come up with? What a loser. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 5 #5
So Sorry, too, BtA... Cha Sep 6 #6

Behind the Aegis

(55,656 posts)
3. Thanks sheshe, but, honestly, I am almost desensitized to it.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 12:25 AM
Sep 5

I have had to step away from much because of it. "Safe spaces" for GLBT, hobby groups, even democratic spaces, aren't safe for Jews anymore. Well, not certain types of Jews, anyway. It has become part of the fabric of my life and my family's life now.

sheshe2

(93,791 posts)
4. Desensitized, and that is so sad.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:25 AM
Sep 5

Again, I am so sorry.

Hold tight to that beautiful family of yours, BtA. Know that you are still loved.

💙

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,428 posts)
5. Over 50 years of conscious experience and this is the best he can come up with? What a loser. . . . . nt
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 03:15 AM
Sep 5

Cha

(314,401 posts)
6. So Sorry, too, BtA...
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 02:55 AM
Sep 6
The Hate from Courtney Bryan is overpowering all sense of self preservation..

The Trauma and Fright this woman and the Child must have experienced.. Thank Goodness they were able to find a house to get away from the Vicious, Metal Pipe wielding Assailant, Yelling "Kill the Jews" at them. Unthrowable

Hope they throw the full extent of the Law at him.

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