The NYPD is searching for woman accused of attacking a group of Jewish children last week in Brooklyn.
According to the Washington Post, the incident took place around 12:30 p.m. Friday outside the Kehal Tiferes Avrohom Ziditshov Orthodox synagogue in Flatlands. Authorities say surveillance video shows the suspect approach three kids on the sidewalk and hurl “anti-Jewish statements” before spiting on one of them.
“Hitler should have killed you all,” she said, according to the NYPD. “I’ll kill you and know where you live.”
Police said the child who was allegedly spat on was an 8-year-old boy; the other two kids—ages 2 and 7—were his siblings.
“This woman passed by them, yelled at them. Something along the lines of Hitler should have killed you all,” their father, Aryah Fried, told WLNY.
He added that his 8-year-old son told the woman he would’ve saved his little sister in the Holocaust.
“I gotta teach him not to engage, but he engaged,” he continued. “And she came running back at him, spat in his face and told him we will kill you all, I know where you live, and we’ll make sure to get you all next time.”
Police have not made any arrests, nor have they publicly identified the suspect. The NYPD said the woman appears to be in her 20s and stands about 5-feet-3-inches tall with black hair. She was last seen wearing an orange sweatshirt, black leggings, and “Ugg” style boots. According to the Post, she could face aggravated harassment charges in connection to the alleged attack.
”I would hope that she understands the severity of what she did,” Fried said. “To do it to anybody is obviously problematic, but for an adult to do it to a child is just beyond crazy.”
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTips.
