Tuesday, June 28, 2011

A Jewish man has been hit with hate crime charges for pouring beer on a newlywed neighbor, calling her an "Arab terrorist" and pummeling her husband, police sources have said

Following the unprovoked attack in Mill Basin, Simchon Schwartz, 46, hid in a local synagogue and tried to fight off cops when they came to arrest him. The Hasidic Jew even kicked out a window of a police cruiser as he sat inside. "F---ing Arabs! F---ing terrorists!" Schwartz screamed when he grabbed his neighbor, Selda Turan, 27. He shoved the woman against her car and poured beer on her head, a police source said. Turan's husband of 13 months, Mustafa Turan, rushed out of their house to protect his wife, but Schwartz punched him in the face. Neighbors said that the Turans moved into the heavily Jewish neighborhood about a month ago. They said that the victims were from Turkey; it wasn't clear if they were Muslim. Schwartz was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court on charges of felony assault and felony criminal mischief, both as hate crimes. He was also charged with resisting arrest, obstructing cops, menacing and harassment. He could get up to 15 years in prison if convicted. A judge rejected a prosecution request to hold Schwartz on $60,000 bail, but granted the Turans an order of protection barring him from contacting them.

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