Cops hunt Hasidic EMT in Brooklyn attack on black college student
Updated Friday, May 16th 2008, 10:27 AM
Police have declared Yitzhak Shuchat a ‘person of interest’ in a suspected bias attack in Crown Heights, in which an unarmed black man was assaulted last month.
The NYPD launched a manhunt Friday for a member of a Hasidic anti-crime patrol believed to have beaten a black Crown Heights college student with a nightstick.
Police released a photo of Yitzhak Shuchat, calling the 25-year-old emergency medical technician a “person of interest” in the high-profile assault.
Shuchat is a member of the Crown Heights Shmira neighborhood patrol and a former NYPD auxiliary police officer, police sources said.
The victim, 20-year-old Andrew Charles, the son of a Brooklyn police officer, was attacked April 14 in an incident first detailed by Daily News columnist Errol Louis.
As Charles walked along Albany Ave., a white man on a bicycle sprayed him with Mace, police said.
A second man emerged from a GMC Envoy and smashed Charles in the back and arm with a nightstick, police said. An adviser to the Charles family said both attackers wore yarmulkes.
Police sources said a Shmira patrol went out that night in response to reports that black youths threw rocks at people’s homes and grabbed the first black teen they saw.
Shuchat’s mother, Rachel, disputed that claim.
“My son, he goes out to protect people. He doesn’t go out to beat people,” she said.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes convened a grand jury to investigate the assault – and to squeeze members of Shmira to tell what they saw that night.
Police sources said Shuchat had been a volunteer auxiliary police officer in Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct as a teenager, but was dismissed for undisclosed reasons more than five years ago. Charles’ father works in Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct.
Shuchat, identified by the victim from a photo array, has not been seen in the neighborhood for several weeks. Police fear he may try to leave the country.
Shuchat’s uncle, Daniel Goldstein, said police showed up at his Long Island home Thursday hunting for his nephew.
“They are looking for a scapegoat because this was a police officer’s son,” he said. “The kid doesn’t even have a broken arm! Does that warrant all this? They are treating my nephew like a murderer.”
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CHLEAKS 
March 29, 2009 at 6:09 pm |
you are a shmuke you already put up this artikel you shuld die you piece of shit you dumb fucker yimach shimo go to hell and go sulk some balls you gay fag
March 30, 2009 at 9:28 am |
shuchat is not such a bad guy. yossi stern is the real peice of shit in this story. and rafael lefkowitz the mosser is also a piece of shit.
March 31, 2009 at 4:04 pm |
Here is a classic example of selective rage.. all liberals suffer it. It’s amost a liberal genetic disease….where’s all the rage of shuchat being in a gang who is trying to put away 7 members of the “rebbe’s shechuna”?
where was all the rage toward shuchat when he did what he was famous for…prank calling hatzalah at all hours of day or night? where’s all the rage at his own gang members in shmira who sold him out…Think C.O.P….that’s another disease liberals suffer from..they are unable to think for themselves and hide behind…i can make up my mind for myself i don’t need the facts…..so fuck you.. you nameless faceless nobody.
April 4, 2009 at 7:58 am |
trying to bring back the pressure on shuchat is wrong, whether he did it or not i can tell you, I live on that block and that punk kid deserved. the beating. aside from him being a cops son this whole thing was blown out of proportion because he is black and jews did it. we should be screaming for justice in the street, not complaining why NYPD was to incompetent to find and arrest him. Yitzy is a good kid, he just had some bad influences in his life (ie. shmira/cop)
April 15, 2009 at 4:37 pm |
he is so hot i want to have sex with him
June 17, 2009 at 12:25 pm |
pig