A hateful scooter-riding suspect knocked a yarmulke off a Jewish man’s head in Brooklyn this week, police said Friday.
The 49-year-old victim, wearing traditional Jewish attire, was looking at his cell phone on 18th Avenue near 45th Street in Borough Park around 7:20 p.m. Wednesday when two men drove past him on a scooter and then stopped, cops said.
The passenger got off the scooter, approached the man and said something indecipherable as he slapped off the head covering the victim was wearing, authorities said.
He then got back on the scooter as his accomplice drove off, heading west on 18th Avenue toward 46th Street, cops said.
The victim did not report any physical injuries.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident.
Police released photos of both suspects, described as males believed to be in their late teens to early 20s, with medium complexions and thin builds.
The incident comes day after Lenny De La Rosa, 21, allegedly scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on a scrolling message board outside the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue on the Upper East Side.
