LOS ANGELES (AP) — A brawl involving pro-Palestinians who attacked Jewish diners at a Los Angeles restaurant will be investigated as a hate crime, the city’s mayor said.
Witnesses said members of a car caravan flying Palestinian flags attacked outdoor diners just before 10 p.m. Tuesday at a sushi restaurant in the Beverly Grove area as violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip intensified.
The Los Angeles Times said a witness, who asked to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said some people from the caravan threw bottles and chanted “death to Jews” and “free Palestine.”
“Somebody in one of the cars driving by started throwing glass bottles or glass cups at the tables and they shattered everywhere,” a woman diner, who didn’t want to be identified, told KCBS-TV.
Several cars stopped and men got out, began running toward the tables and began asking “Who’s Jewish?” the woman said.
KTLA-TV reported that a witness, who was not identified, said fighting erupted when two men replied they were.
Video showed a man being punched on a sidewalk.
The man, who wished to be identified only as M, told KABC-TV that he was helping plan an upcoming wedding with four Jewish friends when the car caravan rolled up.
Video showed some men dressed in black getting out of a car and pushing M’s friend to the ground. M said grabbed a metal stanchion. Video showed him swinging it at attackers.
M said he grabbed it to scare the men.
“There were many girls behind us. I was scared that they would attack everybody,” he said.
M was followed to his car, punched and pepper sprayed, and was treated at a hospital, he said.
LOS ANGELES: Video shows Jewish man on foot being chased by cars with Palestinian flags on La Brea. Comes amid another incident of Palestinian men beating Israelis nearby. pic.twitter.com/6LNrfYXvmz
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Restaurant staff rushed patrons inside, locked the doors and called police.
No arrests were immediately made.
Police said five victims were punched or hurt by broken glass, but nobody was seriously injured. At least three suspects were being sought.
Mayor Eric Garcetti, in tweets posted Wednesday afternoon, said the LAPD is looking into the assault as a hate crime and condemned what he called an “organized, anti-Semitic attack.”
“Jewish Angelenos, like all residents, should always feel safe in our city,” he posted. “L.A. is a city of belonging, not of hate.”
A weekend protest in West Los Angeles in support of Palestinians drew thousands of peaceful protesters. An earlier Tuesday demonstration outside the Israeli consulate also was peaceful and an organizer, Amani Barakat, told KCBS-TV that he wouldn’t condone violence.
“We’ve organized many protests, Saturday’s protest we had more than 20,000 people that showed up and not one single incident,” Barakat said.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations for Greater Los Angeles condemned the incident.
“As a civil rights and advocacy organization, we support everyone’s right to free speech, the right to assemble and rally in support of their respective political views,” Executive Director Hussam Ayloush said in a statement. “However, despite heightened tensions in Palestine and Israel, it is never acceptable for that conflict to spill over into our streets and cities. Violence and intimidation should be condemned, investigated, and if warranted, prosecuted.”
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Arm yourselves Jewish people. Don’t let the American nazi’s do what the German nazi’s did.
I dont think they were Nazi’s per say. I remember when Skin heads and antisemitism were at all time low. That was circa 2006. I read the klan was down to 65 members, nearly extinct, actual members wise. Then something renewed a new form of bigotry and both sides grew in number once more.
It wasn’t “something renewed a new form of bigotry”, it was Obama.
This is why people need the right to carry arms.
This was LA, one of the more stringent cities for ccw around…
Not “need”, but are guaranteed the right to be protected by the Constitution.
ACtually all it does is AFFIRM we have that right..
LT,
By affirming, ostensibly protecting it under the law.
We are all Jews here.
German nazis were left wing starting out like today’s Democrats with both becoming more extreme. The German acronym NAZI stands for National Workers’ SOCIALIST Party. And Muslims backed them just like there’s an alliance between Palis and Dems today. Most American Jewish voters are Democrat (over 70%) so they’re actually reaping what they’re sowing with their votes.
Yes ,charge them with a hate crime. If they weren’t born in this country deport them.
I am ACTUALLY SHOCKED folks are actually looking at this AS A HATE crime..
Usually when black thugs (which most of those attackers seemed to be)< STRIKE OUT against whites, its NEVER EVER seen as a "hate crime"..
The Jewish people who vote for Democrats better wake up very quickly. Only the Conservatives are your friends. The Democrats condone this violence, as they condone the attacks against Israel by the Palestinians, by blm and by antifa.
I really find that amazing. Even though the dems use and abuse the Jewish population, 70-80% of them vote democrat. I just don’t get it. (78% voted for obama).
Immigrants also vote Democrat — against their self interest.
That is something i’ve been telling them, for years!.. BUT THEY SEEM TO NEVER CARE, as they keep voting dem, “like my daddy did”… Like they are just mindless lemmings…
I used to live near a Jewish community and have many Jewish friends. Every election, the Jewish neighborhoods had Democrat signs proudly displayed on most of their front lawns. Many were unhappy with Obama in both terms. They were appalled at the way he treated Netanyahu. They were angry about him kissing the backsides of Arab countries that hate Israel. They were up in arms about the many restrictions he implemented to make it harder for them to do business. Did that stop most of them from voting to reelect him or voting for Hillary and Biden? Not in this lifetime. They couldn’t even learn the hard way. They will vote Democrat because they cannot bring themselves to vote Republican or any other party. Almost seems as if it is a disease. In the end, the Democrat voting Jews will vote themselves right into another Holocaust and take all of us with them.
Then i have little to no sympathy FOR THEM..
The Jewish people voted 77% for Biden. If they want to keep being treated like they were in Germany keep voting for Communists Democrats.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it take a drink..
IF THESE FOOLS wish to keep voting for the party that SUPPORTS ARABS over their own kind, that’s on THEIR OWN HEADS.
Hate crimes in America, brought to you by the democrats.
NAME ME one hate group, in the US, that has NOT BEEN BROUGHT TO you by the commucrat party!
Los Angeles Mayor translation: If we find the jews were attacked because they were jewish and the attackers said they did it because they were arabs. It is no hate crime. The jews deserved it. Screw them. Investigation over. La times then reports the jews were really Trump supporters so hate is OK.
You have the cool, clear eye of a seeker of wisdom and truth. (Name that tune and win a prize.)
Hey, come on… There ARE some good Palestinians… Like Sirhan Sirhan, for example!
Palestinian Terrorists should be treated like Israel is treating their Palestinian Terrorists!
Yeah, turn their home country into a fused silica lined yacht basin.
There was a time in Germany where glass was shattered and Jews were attacked for no other reason than they were Jewish. They were beaten, attacked, and removed. Ghettos were formed and Jewish people were forced to live in a specific area. Gold stars were worn by those of Jewish ethnic heritage. Hatred against the Jewish people was allowed to happen unfettered and fomented by the government. Ultimately over 6 million Jews and others who supported, defended, or aided them were murdered.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Let us NOT forget.
If you listen to what is being taught in the socialist schools, this never happened. The younger generation does not believe it for a hot second.
My grandparents escaped Germany, and it just wasn’t the Jewish they were after; it was anyone that was not deemed the superior race of blue eyed and blonde hair.
Kind of ironic and hypocritical when you consider that Hitler did not have blond hair and blue eyes. I even heard some people comment that he even looked like a Jew.
Kind of hard to learn from history, WHEN THE LEFT DOESN”T WANT TO teach it!
Not all Jews are the Jews of ’30s and ’40s Germany, but they just aren’t obvious like the maligned JDL.
They must like it they keep voting Democrat.
Always be armed with something . I used to carry a cane . A walking stick, like an old ski pole is great for stabbing back at the gut or chest . Putting your keys, one each between your fingers , makes a good punch . Best defense is to not provoke the idiots driving by with words like FU . A smart man keeps his cool, especially when he’s outnumbered. Those were fools looking for a reaction. Don’t give them one. Finally, stop Voting for DEMON-RATS !!!!
How many stores have been torched and vandalized by conservative mobs?
How many Federal courthouses have been set afire by conservative mobs?
How many Palestinian (or Arabic or Persian) restaurants have been besieged by Jewish mobs?
These are not rhetorical questions. They’re real questions, with easily verified answers.
ZERO!
View from another window: why is biden bringing in illegals cause he cannot rely on daca votes 100% anymore nor on born here Latino citizens who see through his puppet strings being pulled by obama, along with help from blm, tlaib, cortez. The blacks are still being played by blm so those in charge can get richer and any black that dies is just more fuel to their riches.
Think about this: why are there no big commercials, news, kudos, models, celebrities that are of Latino/south of the border background – this is cause most of us (Latinos born here) are not fooled as are the blacks being paraded on those listed ways just to keep the division going while making sure they are fooled into voting democrat.
The mayor condemns the attack. The police will investigate. Does anybody really think any of the perps will end up with jail time?
Hell no.. knowing LA county’s libtard DA, they will at most be given community service and maybe probation.
They have to be found first. Good luck with that.
WITH all the video footage of them, finding them shouldn’t be that hard.
Wake up Democrat voters you’ve been had.
If the Jewish diners attacked are Dem voters (70% likelihood, higher in California) then they’re getting what they voted for. Dems have made pets of Palis. As Obama said, “Elections have consequences” and if Jewish Americans couldn’t see this one coming, then their rep for high IQ is exaggerated.