NYPD arrests Muslim teen for allegedly taunting Jewish subway rider, cops attacked by angry mob

[mota bhai 2,675]

... suspect Stephan Stowe, 17, and a group of eight friends approached a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke aboard a Brooklyn-bound 3 train just before 3 p.m. Monday, police sources said Wednesday.

"Assalamu Alaikum," Stowe said to the man, using a common greeting among Muslims that means, "Peace be with you," court documents allege.

When the man ignored the greeting, Stowe allegedly became combative.

"You think you're better than me?" the teen allegedly said. "We are cousins."

"No we’re not," The man shot back, and told Stowe to leave him alone.

The suspect then started hurling ethnic slurs and called the man disrespectful, according to court papers.

As the tension aboard the train escalated, the man whipped out his cell phone and took a photo of Stowe, who then snatched the phone and deleted the photo, police sources said.

"I'm going to kill you right now," Stowe said, according to cops and court records. He then swore at the man, according to cops and court records, and in an apparent reference to the Holocaust added, "They should have killed all of you."

The man managed to swipe his phone back from Stowe and ran to alert the conductor, police sources said. As the train pulled into the Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum stop, cops were waiting to collar Stowe, police sources said.

But that's when a mob rose up against the cops.

A pair of police officers struggled to detain Stowe inside the empty train while the angry onlookers swarmed the station's platform snapping video and yelling at cops, video first published by Gothamist on Wednesday shows.

Alarmed by the swelling crowd, the cops called for backup, police sources said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/melee-erupts-cops-arrest-muslim-teen-taunting-jewish-subway-rider-article-1.1320655#ixzz2QuwKlYDy

[JohnR! 5,495]

I've seen worse, at dispute over a parking spot at the movies....

Edited April 19, 2013 by Gegel

[decocker 7,198]

man, the comments on that article are a portal to all that ills humanity.

[GandD 5,966]

I read this whole thing and I feel like i'm missing something. Why would the crowd swarm the police? Was it a race thing?

[JohnR! 5,495]

man, the comments on that article are a portal to all that ills humanity.

Isn't that true tho...

[Sarah Elle-Même 660]

What a lowlife. His posse, too.

The same exact thing happened to me years ago on the LIRR. Except it was an old Orthodox Jewish man who spit in my face, shoved me, and called me an Arab ####### for overhearing my friend's and my conversation about my Yemeni boyfriend. He ran away like a scared kid before the MTA cop could get him. Lots of lowlifes out there. I never got no NYDN article.

[mota bhai 2,675]

I read this whole thing and I feel like i'm missing something. Why would the crowd swarm the police? Was it a race thing?

Yeah probably. I always hear a lot of anti-Semitism from black people around here. And there's a lot of tension already between NY's black population and the jews and the cops. This is not shocking at all.

What a lowlife. His posse, too.

The same exact thing happened to me years ago on the LIRR. Except it was an old Orthodox Jewish man who spit in my face, shoved me, and called me an Arab ####### for overhearing my friend's and my conversation about my Yemeni boyfriend. He ran away like a scared kid before the MTA cop could get him. Lots of lowlifes out there. I never got no NYDN article.

NYC Arabs don't mob, they don't start chit like this. You need a mob to get in the news.

[GandD 5,966]

What a shame. People are that jaded that they'll support one of their own race when they get in trouble for degrading another race. Police brutality blah blah, in this case, all he had to do was surrender peacefully.

[decocker 7,198]

sounds to me like a bunch of kids got rowdy. i seriously doubt stowe is a religious person. seems like anyone could say assalamu alaikum and get a rise out of the right person.

it was kinda rude for the man to ignore the greeting. he should have been polite and responded simply "and also with you". anyway, that's what i would've done.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

What a lowlife. His posse, too.

The same exact thing happened to me years ago on the LIRR. Except it was an old Orthodox Jewish man who spit in my face, shoved me, and called me an Arab ####### for overhearing my friend's and my conversation about my Yemeni boyfriend. He ran away like a scared kid before the MTA cop could get him. Lots of lowlifes out there. I never got no NYDN article.

The page has a link to a "related" story called "Brooklyn Hasid charged with felony hate crime after attacking 'f---ing Arabs' living next door"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/brooklyn-hasid-charged-felony-hate-crime-attacking-f-ing-arabs-living-door-article-1.132120#ixzz2QvHXzKth

However, I notice that it didn't get any comments at all, much less a string of racist ####### from the usual keyboard warriors. You see how that works ?

[mota bhai 2,675]

The page has a link to a "related" story called "Brooklyn Hasid charged with felony hate crime after attacking 'f---ing Arabs' living next door"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/brooklyn-hasid-charged-felony-hate-crime-attacking-f-ing-arabs-living-door-article-1.132120#ixzz2QvHXzKth

However, I notice that it didn't get any comments at all, much less a string of racist ####### from the usual keyboard warriors. You see how that works ?

Drudge linked one, not the other. Drudge magic.

[JohnR! 5,495]

What a lowlife. His posse, too.

The same exact thing happened to me years ago on the LIRR. Except it was an old Orthodox Jewish man who spit in my face, shoved me, and called me an Arab ####### for overhearing my friend's and my conversation about my Yemeni boyfriend. He ran away like a scared kid before the MTA cop could get him. Lots of lowlifes out there. I never got no NYDN article.

This is something I refuse to understand. Why anyone as xenophobic as that, would choose to live or remain in a city like NY, of all places!

[GandD 5,966]

The page has a link to a "related" story called "Brooklyn Hasid charged with felony hate crime after attacking 'f---ing Arabs' living next door"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/brooklyn-hasid-charged-felony-hate-crime-attacking-f-ing-arabs-living-door-article-1.132120#ixzz2QvHXzKth

However, I notice that it didn't get any comments at all, much less a string of racist ####### from the usual keyboard warriors. You see how that works ?

Yeah yeah we get it. Muslims are also victims of hate crimes too. What should be focused on here is that hate crimes of any type should not be tolerated......period. I bet if i try hard enough I can find a few hate crimes against whities.

[mota bhai 2,675]

This is something I refuse to understand. Why anyone as xenophobic as that, would choose to live or remain in a city like NY, of all places!

NYC is home to every flavor of asswipe known on this planet...

[Sarah Elle-Même 660]

Yeah probably. I always hear a lot of anti-Semitism from black people around here. And there's a lot of tension already between NY's black population and the jews and the cops. This is not shocking at all.

NYC Arabs don't mob, they don't start chit like this. You need a mob to get in the news.

They also generally mind their own business. Others, not so much. My experience. There's definitely something missing in that article. Probably the race angle. Which is strange for NYDN they are always race baiting. And yes the Jewish community has butted heads with certain members of the Black and Hispanic communities for years. Nothing new.