VIDEO: Anti-Hoverboard Policy Ignites Brawl in Brooklyn Kosher Market

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Three local men, two Orthodox Jews and one Latino, are facing assault charges this week for their alleged involvement in a brawl inside the kosher, Orthodox-run Central Market grocery store at Division and Wythe avenues on June 9.

And according to police, the day's mayhem can all be traced back to the bane of modern America: the hoverboard.

A young woman was riding one such weapon of mass destruction through Central Market on the evening of Wednesday, June 9, when two store managers noticed she was knocking down stuff in the aisles, a spokeswoman with the NYPD told Patch.

The managers — identified by police as Abraham Spielman, 21, and Mattis Edelstein, 29 — "didn't want a hoverboard in the store," the spokeswoman said, "so they tackled her off it."

"Spielman pushed her to the ground," the spokeswoman said, while "Edelstein threw a peach at her face."

The peach struck the woman's glasses, which in turn caused "lacerations and swelling" to her face, police said.

The disgruntled hoverboard rider then allegedly called her father, 41-year-old Mark Soto, to the scene.

From there, a witness video — posted to Facebook by community member Gary Schlesinger, and included both above and below — shows Soto repeatedly punching at least one of the managers in the face.

All three men were charged with misdemeanor assault, police said.

However, only one of them — Mattis Edelstein, the guy who allegedly threw a peach at the hoverboard rider — was ordered to appear in court immediately, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. The other two men received mere "desk appearance tickets," meaning they get a more few weeks before they'll have to come argue their case.

This difference in treatment between the Orthodox manager and the Latino man who punched him has angered some in the Orthodox community, who feel the two parties are receiving unequal treatment.

"As a result of this false PEACH arrest one the Manager's was in central booking for over 24 hours barely making it home before the onset of a 3 day holiday Shavuot with his large extended family," Schlesinger, the video uploader, wrote on Facebook.

The comment section for Schlesinger's video, meanwhile, has turned into a virtual battleground for the very real and historic tensions between Orthodox Jews and other minority groups living side-by-side in various parts of Brooklyn.

H/T DNAinfo