Violence in a nearby neighborhood.
Crown Heights is the neighborhood on the other side of Prospect Park from where I now live.
Last week this happened in Crown Heights.
A woman, a neighborhood resident in her 30s, heard police helicopters over her apartment. She walked over to investigate around 10:30 p.m. but by then a pro-Palestinian protest had mostly dispersed.
Not wanting to be filmed, the woman covered her face with a scarf.
“As soon as I pulled up my scarf, a group of 100 men came over immediately and encircled me.”
“They were shouting at me, threatening to rape me, chanting ‘death to Arabs.’ I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene,” she said.
As the chants grew in intensity, a police officer tried to escort her to safety. They were followed for blocks by hundreds of men and boys screaming at them in Hebrew and English.
Video shows two of the men kicking her in the back, another hurling a traffic cone into her head and a fourth pushing a trash can into her.
“This is America,” one of the men can be heard saying. “We got Israel. We got an Army now.”
At one point, she and the police officer were nearly cornered against a building.
“I felt sheer terror,” the woman recalled. “I realized at that point that I couldn’t lead this mob of men to my home. I had nowhere to go. I didn’t know what to do. I was just terrified.”
After several blocks, the officer hustled the woman into a police vehicle, prompting one man to yell, “Get her!”
The crowd erupted in cheers as she was driven away.
The woman, a lifelong New Yorker, said she was left with bruises and mentally shaken by the episode.
“I’m afraid to move around the neighborhood where I’ve lived for a decade,” she told the AP. “It doesn’t seem like anyone in any position of power really cares.”
The Brown shirts of Musoline have come to america - who will stand up?