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“[They] started cursing me, [saying] go back to your country, scum bags, you just messed this country up and all that."

Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn | New York 1 | VICTIM CALLS FOR FEDERAL CHARGES IN TEEN HATE CRIME

A Pakistani man beaten on a Brooklyn street called for federal charges Monday against the five teens charged in the attack, speaking out for the first time since the attack two weeks ago. NY1's Shazia Khan filed the following report.

"They were raising slogans, ‘Muslim terrorists,’” explained Shahid Amber, a victim of a hate crime. “[They] started cursing me, [saying] go back to your country, scum bags, you just messed this country up and all that."...

180px-Brass_knuckles_dsc04625.jpg“One of them, he spit on my face,” said Amber. “As I was cleaning my face, I see a punch coming on my face with a brass knuckle.”

Amber was treated for a number of injuries, including a broken nose, and soon after, the police arrested five teens, all of them Jewish, and charged them with assault as a hate crime....

“Young people are not born to hate, they learn it someplace,” said Donna Lieberman of the New York City Liberties Union. “And when our government engages in profiling based on ethnicity, religion, and race then our young people learn very, very quickly.”

The Jewish Anti-Defamation League has joined others in condemning the attack. The suspects are due back in court next month

Posted by Alan on November 7, 2006 11:35 AM |

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