6-Year-Old Orthodox Brooklyn Child Showered by Glass After Rock Attack on Car
— A teenage boy hurled a rock into the car of an Orthodox Jewish woman in Brooklyn, shattering the back window and covering her 6-year-old child in glass.
The teen, who was not identified, had shouted an anti-Semitic remark at the woman in the car before throwing the rock and fleeing the scene, the New York Daily News reported.
The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
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