Hasid Cuts Off Cops, Gets Busted After Low Speed Chase
A motorist in Brooklyn learned the hard way not to cut off the NYPD's elite Emergency Service Unit. Yehuda Bernstein, 39, nearly crashed into the squad's marked truck yesterday afternoon at Ocean Parkway and Prospect Avenue when he cut if off -- and then he led the officers on a low-speed chase for about six blocks before he was finally dragged out of his car kicking and screaming, cops said.
Police nail cutoff man
By LARRY CELONA and JOHN DOYLE • New York Post
A motorist in Brooklyn learned the hard way not to cut off the NYPD's elite Emergency Service Unit.
Yehuda Bernstein, 39, nearly crashed into the squad's marked truck yesterday afternoon at Ocean Parkway and Prospect Avenue when he cut if off -- and then he led the officers on a low-speed chase for about six blocks before he was finally dragged out of his car kicking and screaming, cops said.
The ESU officers blasted their sirens for Bernstein to stop his Lincoln MKS but he allegedly ignored them and proceeded south down Ocean Parkway, swerving into oncoming traffic and blowing red lights along the way.
The high-tech truck followed and finally caught Bernstein near Beverly Road when he was slowed by traffic, sources said.
He resisted arrest by gripping the steering wheel and it took several officers to pry him out. A cop finally put his knee in Bernstein's back and shouted, "You idiot! You could have killed someone!"
He was issued a desk appearance for misdemeanor reckless endangerment and cut loose.
I'm told Bernstein grew up in Crown Heights and still lives there, and that he was at one time – and may still be, to some extent – a Chabad hasid.
chasid my foot.
Where are his tsitsis. Amd that chain around his neck. Does he use it for a gartel.
Posted by: MPidiot | May 13, 2011 at 11:45 AM
he must of been high on grugs to do what he did no sane person behaves this way, i hope he gets what he deserves a big fine and community service.
Posted by: jancsipista | May 13, 2011 at 11:51 AM
yehuda is a very nice guy
Posted by: jicky | May 13, 2011 at 11:54 AM
The picture shows a real looking Chabad Chosid.Am I missing the Yechi capel?
maybe it fell off under arrest,if he ever had one in the begining.
Shmaryahoo, I am very curious to know how you look, where could I find your picture?
Posted by: Loshon Hora | May 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM
BTW do Chabad Hassids wear Tzizit?
Posted by: Loshon Hora | May 13, 2011 at 12:05 PM
After looking closely maybe you meant the picture on the left Got him,That guy has a long enough beard.
I am confused now who is who?
Posted by: Loshon Hora | May 13, 2011 at 12:06 PM
That's what happens when you go off the derech!!!
Posted by: R. Wisler | May 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM
SHMRAYA---- YOU HAVE GONE TO A NEW LOW LEVEL..... THIS STORY IS DEFINITELY NEWSWORTHY-- BUT YOUR BIASED EDITORIAL TO ASSOCIATE THEM WITH CHABBAD IS ACTUALLY PATHETIC ON YOUR PART. LIKE A CRYING BABY....
Posted by: theman | May 13, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Isnt that the same guy that got busted for beeting hiw wife? shuld have not let him out than
Posted by: jon | May 13, 2011 at 12:15 PM
How did he wind up getting half naked in the above arrest pic??
Posted by: Maple Bacon | May 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM
theman, is your real name Matthew?
Posted by: Maple Bacon | May 13, 2011 at 12:32 PM
looks like a regular Jew no chusid to me
Posted by: seymour | May 13, 2011 at 12:41 PM
The police called him an idiot...
Wait until Dov Hykind hears about this clear
anti semitic outrage by NYPD. I smell law
suit.
Posted by: Phillip | May 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM
looks kind of "buff" for a chasid-I would imagine that last time this dude went to shul was at his bar mitzvah, or to get drunk at a kiddush.
Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM
my name is not mathew..why?
Posted by: theman | May 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM
He does not have a big fat belly, and he has a normal haircut.
Probably not a 'Hasid'.
He's lucky they didn't give him the Rodney King treatment.
Posted by: WoolSilkCotton | May 13, 2011 at 01:00 PM
"I'm told Bernstein grew up in Crown Heights and still lives there, and that he was at one time – and may still be, to some extent – a Chabad hasid."
Sham- rya, you really hate Chabad over the snub to your idea a couple of decades ago. Get it over with, grow up and out of all that self-hatred.
You do know that when you post something like "I'm told ...grew up in Crown Heights and still lives there... etc" that you truly sound like a beauty parlor gossiper?
Posted by: Ergo proxy | May 13, 2011 at 01:15 PM
Shmarya, this is a new one for you. What's next?
"Joe Shmoe, arrested by police for jaywalking yesterday once walked by a Chabad House and may briefly have glanced at the window."
Your headline is simple false advertising.
Posted by: Garnel Ironheart | May 13, 2011 at 01:17 PM
Is this the new face of "Hasids?" Bare hairy bellies and necklaces? I want to join them Hasids.
Posted by: Yoily Weiss | May 13, 2011 at 01:18 PM
Yoily, you call THAT hairy?
Posted by: Teddy | May 13, 2011 at 01:27 PM
If that guy is a Chabad Hasid, then I am the Rebbe.
Posted by: WoolSilkCotton | May 13, 2011 at 01:31 PM
first of all that guy is a chabad choosid
shemarya what do you exactly want from yehuda ?did he help you when you came to new york ?
Posted by: jicky | May 13, 2011 at 01:47 PM
good thing he didnt drive into a little black kid, r else twoulda been riot phase 2.
Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 13, 2011 at 02:32 PM
Hey, if he drove into one of my kids, you can be damn sure I would make a riot happen.
Posted by: jay | May 13, 2011 at 03:31 PM
What a clear case of a cop pissed off by seeing a kippa in an MKZ...nothing more upsetting to a cop than a Jew in an expensive car.....his face doesn't look like he's resisting arrest, looks like the cops did a CYA (cover your ass) story.....
Posted by: SFried | May 13, 2011 at 04:21 PM
My family knows Yehuda for many years.......I'd bet my paycheck this story is NOT what happened. He's a good guy who was in the wrong place at the worong time with the wrong cop....the perfect storm.
Posted by: SSherman | May 13, 2011 at 04:26 PM
Jon......sounds like you think you know him well, did you ever meet him? I think not. I heard you abused your wife physically and verbally....hmmmm, wonder which story is true. I'll ask her myself.
Posted by: Grossman | May 13, 2011 at 04:31 PM
wow-sherman and fried-proving again that the old adage that jews are smart is false.
Posted by: tooclose2detroit | May 13, 2011 at 04:32 PM
SFried, SSherman, and Grossman are all the same person.
This is called sockpuppeting, and is form of lying and cheating that is not allowed.
And now this person, whoever s/he is, is banned.
Posted by: Shmarya | May 13, 2011 at 04:35 PM
Looks like an at-risk kid who went off the derech. Some become bloggers, others become reckless drivers.
Posted by: sk | May 13, 2011 at 04:48 PM
His necklace looks like it's holding reading glasses
Posted by: Chchick | May 13, 2011 at 04:50 PM
The frumma derech is drek.
Posted by: WoolSilkCotton | May 13, 2011 at 05:14 PM
Hassid? Shmarya, what are you smoking, I want some too?!
Posted by: hassid my foot | May 13, 2011 at 05:17 PM
Wow this is some serious sinas chinam! you should be ashamed of yourselves!! Look at his face in the picture he doesnt look like hes fighting anyone! plus nothing says crazy driver like a man with his reading glasses on!
Posted by: CutiePie | May 13, 2011 at 05:19 PM
The exposure that FM got in the Satmar velt has indeed attracted new readers, and a whole bunch of trolls.
Posted by: WoolSilkCotton | May 13, 2011 at 05:45 PM
""He's lucky they didn't give him the Rodney King treatment.""
In Texas, the cops will just shoot you and get 'no billed' by the Grand Jury
Posted by: Isa | May 13, 2011 at 06:58 PM
That's no hasid ..,... It's yuda bernstein or Bernie ..... He's a good kind hearted guy..... Likes his wheels but that don't make him a perp..., he's actually a really nice guy ...
Posted by: Do tell | May 14, 2011 at 03:54 AM
A desk appearance for misdemeanor? That's all? Imagine if he were a black man! He'd have been tased AND he'd be in jail.
Posted by: Dovit | May 14, 2011 at 09:23 AM
He is "beardless Chassid". Just because he doesn't have a beard, don't make the mistake that he isn't "one of them". He could be working "undercover". I know or know of a number of these types.
Posted by: David | May 14, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Yehuda never knew cops were chasing him they dragged him out of the car and started hitting him he didnt have a clue what they wanted from him ,
anybody can explain a low speed chase ?
Posted by: jicky | May 14, 2011 at 10:47 PM
He looks like a Neturei Karta guy to me. I thought all these guys were in Iran?
Posted by: moshe | May 14, 2011 at 11:56 PM
so I guess he always passes red light and swerves into traffic is that what you are saying
Posted by: seymour | May 15, 2011 at 07:09 PM
jickey, you his gf? Sure sounds like it. Lol. Hope you know some self defensse moves. I seen pictures of what happend to wifey
Posted by: jon | May 15, 2011 at 09:59 PM
seymour is funnyt
Posted by: jon | May 15, 2011 at 09:59 PM
B"H
Shmarya
Are you going to accuse the WMF guy arrested in NY for being Chabad also?
Posted by: Rubashkin Supporter | May 15, 2011 at 11:43 PM
Yehuda is a nice guy with a heart of gold...as for wifey, the only place you'll find her is in a liquor store, passed out or selling her wares for a big screen TV. Again, this is a clear case of angry cop v. Jew in an MKZ. Leave the guy alone.
Posted by: Jen | May 16, 2011 at 10:59 AM
And what the hell is a slow speed chase? Really?
Posted by: Jen | May 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Such nonsense.
Posted by: Sara | May 16, 2011 at 07:41 PM
If he is a "hasid" I am the pope!
Posted by: mark levin | May 17, 2011 at 09:46 PM
Look at his face in the picture doesn't look like he's resisting arrest What a clear case of a cop pissed off by seeing Jew in an expensive car iv herd yehuda is a very nice guy def a cover you ass story I smell law
suit.
Posted by: A REALIST | May 17, 2011 at 11:31 PM