Hasidic Jews who beat and blinded gay black man are handed just 150 hours community service - and are trying to avoid doing it in 'culturally diverse' NYC area
- Pinchas Braver and Abraham Winkler admitted taking part in beating
- They pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment and were spared jail
- Both were charged with gang hate crime and facing lengthy jail time
- Taj Patterson was left blind in one eye after beating in December 2013
- He says he was walking down the street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when the group beat him while shouting homophobic slurs
Two Hasidic men who admitted to brutally beating a gay black man until he was blinded in one eye were sentenced to just 150 hours of community service – but are trying to get out of doing it in a ‘culturally diverse’ neighborhood.
Fashion student Taj Patterson was left permanently blind in his right eye after being beaten by a group of Hasidic men as he walked down the street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in December 2013.
Pinchas Braver, 22, and Abraham Winkler, 42, who were part of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish patrol group, were charged with gang hate crime and facing up to 25 years in prison, the New York Post reported.
But instead, they pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment in a plea deal that meant they avoided jail in exchange for three years of probation, paying $1,400 restitution and performing the 150 hours of community service in a ‘culturally diverse’ placement.
Two others had their cases dropped, but Mayer Herkovic, will go on trial next week.
But the men told the court last week that they wanted to do the community service at Chai Lifeline, a group that works with Jewish children with life-threatening illness.
But the men told the court last week that they wanted to do the community service at Chai Lifeline, a group that works with Jewish children with life-threatening illness.
So they beat the **** out of the poor man and they try to put their conditions of where to do the community service and ****? Give me a ****ing break... Don't tell me the judge agreed because...
Also they should've been arrested for years not this ****** penalty.
Orthodox Jews, what a surprise. The fact that they "patrol" in streets tho, that's what ISIS sympathizers do in East London as well also the judge was obviously biased
But ATRL told me Christians were the most homophobic religious group out there for not baking a cake!
I don't recall anyone ever saying that so I don't know where you got that from.
And there are plenty of Christians who beat gay men so I don't get why you're trying to sau. In fact, I'm willing bet most of the perpetrators in gay bashings in the US are by Christians.
also the judge was obviously biased
maybe even years
