The man who was arrested for savagely beating a Jewish man in Midtown last week is showing no remorse for his actions.
In fact, he would do it again, given the chance.
23-year-old Waseem Awawdeh of Bay Ridge was arrested on Friday for the beating of 29-year-old Joseph Borgen, and charged with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing, aggravated assault as a hate crime and criminal possession of a hate crime.
According to a prosecutor at the arraignment, Awawdeh told one of his jailers “If I could do it again, I would do it again. I have no problem doing it again.”
In view of this, it is incredible that he was released on bail. Awawdeh’s bail was set at $10,000.
The Manhattan assistant district attorney added that the case is being investigated as a hate crime, noting that Awawdeh called Borgen a “dirty Jew” and said, “[expletive] Israel, Hamas is going to kill all of you.”
The NYPD has released an image of more suspects being sought in the case.
Five males knocked Joseph Borgen to the ground and assaulted him while making anti-Semitic statements (DCPI)
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