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The NYPD has been slapped with yet another notice of a multimillion-dollar legal claim stemming from the inaction of its officers on the evening of April 24, when members of a pro-Israel mob were accused of assaulting people outside the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights after the synagogue hosted a talk from the racist, ultranationalist Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Last week, we reported on the $1.25 million claim filed by a Crown Heights resident who claims at least a dozen cops did nothing to help her as she was mobbed and assaulted by a group of at least 100 pro-Israel men and boys after they mistook her for a protester that night.
Now, the NYPD is facing another claim of selective policing—this latest one from a Jewish Israeli American New Yorker who went to the synagogue to protest Ben-Gvir that evening, and who says she was attacked by counterprotesters and hit with a projectile as officers "stood down." The two women's notices of claim, filed with Comptroller Brad Lander's office, are procedural precursors to lawsuits that will be filed in the coming months.
The latest claim, filed Friday and shared with Hell Gate, details the allegations of the Israeli American woman. The woman, who is in her 20s, went to the synagogue on Eastern Parkway that night to peacefully protest Ben-Gvir, and left in an ambulance, bleeding from the head and requiring three stitches, according to her claim. She plans to seek $1.75 million in damages.
The woman recounted that she was outside the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters when she and other protesters were attacked by a group of Ben-Gvir supporters that she believed were members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Those counterprotesters broke the police barrier between them, hit them with eggs, and flashed strobe lights in their eyes, while dozens of NYPD cops who were in the area at the time did nothing, the woman said.