Five Hasidic Jews arrested for assaulting gay man in NYC

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4513106,00.html

Early December, Taj Peterson was attacked while he was walking home from a party in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. According to Peterson, over a dozen ultra-Orthodox men assaulted him while shouting anti-gay slurs.

Aharon Hollender, 28, Abraham Winkler, 39, Mayer Herskovic, 21, Pinchas Braver, 19, and Joseph Fried, 25, were all charged with gang assault and other offenses. However, no hate crime charges have been filed against the offenders, the website reported
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"I'm walking down some block by myself and then the next thing I know, I'm surrounded by a group of Hasidic Jewish men and they're attacking me," Patterson told the website in December. "I was alone. I was an easy target. I'm black. I'm gay, a whole slew of reasons."

Patterson further told that he remembered the main instigator kicking him in the face, shouting "stay down, f----t, stay the f--- down.”