Brooklyn Residents Kick Anti-Semite Off Subway at Jay Street

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, BROOKLYN — Swiftly and with no regrets, a group of men kicked an anti-Semitic creep off of a subway at the Jay St.-Metrotech stop this weekend after the man made disgusting Holocaust jokes and compared Donald Trump's America to Adolf Hitler's Germany, according to witnesses.

"Don't worry - we won't round up the pretty Jews," the man joked while he was riding the subway, according to a witness account posted to Facebook by a woman named Rachel.

A group of angry men on the subway then said to the man, "This is your stop," and forced him to get off the subway, according to the woman who said she saw the whole thing go down.

Here's a sobering first-hand account from Facebook, which went viral on Twitter when it was shared by a friend of the witness (WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE):

Lesson learned: Don't slang your bigotry through the streets of Brooklyn — and especially not on public transit.

Patch has reached out to the author of the post; we'll update if we hear back.

Unfortunately, not all victims of hate speech on public transit are protected to the extent they should be in New York City, as we saw when a 19-year-old girl wearing a hijab on a bus traveling to Manhattan was attacked by two men last week for her appearance.

Fariha Nizam wrote in her account of the bus ride on Facebook that her attackers were trying to yank her hijab off of her, and the MTA did nothing to protect her.

Nizam wrote:

The two of them started yelling at me, shouting to me to take off my hijab, yelling that it is not allowed anymore. My reaction, complete fear and anxiety. I broke out into tears, frustrated at myself for exhibiting so much weakness but unable to do anything else. I was crying incessantly, looking away, but they did not stop. They started yelling at me and telling me to take off the disgusting piece of cloth on my head, saying that it wasn’t allowed anymore.

Like many cities across America, NYC has turned into a hotbed of hate speech in the week since Trump was elected president. On Sunday, residents of Crown Heights found a swastika spray-painted onto a sidewalk in a heavily Orthodox Jewish area. A man under the Twitter handle @AngryMarxistJew promptly painted over the swastika, crossing it out:

Someone also sprayed pro-Trump graffiti onto the door of a Muslim prayer room on New York University's campus in Downtown Brooklyn last week. Then, over the weekend, swastikas were drawn onto four dorm-room doors at the New School in Manhattan.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) documented at least 200 hate crime incidents in the three days after Trump won the election — based on social media reports, news reports and direct submissions. However, SPLC officials said they have not been able to individually verify each incident.

According to the SPLC, the hateful incidents were more likely to occur on school and university campuses.

If you believe you have been a victim of a hate crime, call the Manhattan District Attorney and NYPD's joint "hate crime hotline" at 212-335-3100. Other important help lines for life in a post-Trump nation can be found here.

Editor's Note: A previous version of this story said the events described above occurred on a city bus. They actually occurred in a subway car.

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