A young couple and their baby, dressed in traditional Hasidic garb, were slashed in an unprovoked attack in Lower Manhattan from an ex-con released from prison less than two months ago, police said Thursday.
The victims were treated at the scene by medics and were not badly hurt.
Video shows the attacker carrying an umbrella as he walks past the victims — a man and woman, both 22, and their 13-month-old baby in a stroller — on State St. near Battery Park about 5:50 p.m. Wednesday.
Moments later, he reverses course, slashing the man on the head, the woman on the lip and the baby on the chin.
The victims ran off as the assailant, who was yelling and screaming throughout the incident, gave chase.
Darryl Jones, 30, was nabbed a short time later and charged with assault, weapon possession and drug possession for K-2 found on him, police said. The knife was recovered in a garbage can near the scene.
Hate crime charges have not been ruled out if anti-Jewish bias turns out to be a motivation in the attack. Jones did not make any anti-Semitic statements, police said.
Jones has 12 previous arrests, seven of them sealed. The others include a 2011 beatdown of a 50-year-old man inside the suspect’s Morningside Heights’ building. Police said he and another man tried to rob the victim and badly beat him, busting his eye socket and three ribs.
Jones was later convicted of attempted murder and attempted assault.
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Why is it we only hear about these “hate” crimes solely in the bluest of blue areas? The “peace-love-tolerance-acceptance” that is purportedly the rule in these meccas of liberalism seem to have a monopoly on singling out people or groups that they detest or are prejudiced against , and respond by beating the living (dung) out of them. Somehow then the message then equates this savagery to “white conservative men”, miles and miles away from the incidents.
THIS IS WHY i keep saying, START charging the mayors/DA’s who keep LETTING These crooks out, AS ACCESSORIES for every crime they commit..
WHEN They start spending time in jail THEMSELVES< you'd soon see this sort of nonsense, stopped..
“Jones has 12 previous arrests”. Where is blm and why is this less than animal on the street? Answer! Liberal politicians do not believe in incarcerating trash in society. Hey voters, electing liberal politicians is great for chaos / crime in society, isn’t it?
The couple were dressed in Hassidic garb. But there was no evidence of a “hate crime”?? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…. And, BTW, ALL crimes are “hate” crimes.
YOu can bet, if it had been a white perp and black victim, EVEN IF THEY HAD ONLY TARGETED that guy cause he was an ‘easy mark’, THEY WOULD BE screaming “HATE crime” from the roof tops…
He should be put away and only released when he stops breathing……….W.
Why waste money harboring him in prison. JUST BEHEAD HIM NOW, and staple his skull on a spike in central park, as a warning to others.
Wow, the liberal news never said a word about this crime.
OF COURSE not.. IT was a BLACK OFFENDER, like most of these ‘asian attacks’ have been.