One Day in Prison: Brooklyn DA Does Sweetheart Plea Deal With Chabad Street Patrol Member Who Beat Innocent Black Teen

Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson dropped hate crime charges against Yitzchak Shuchat, a member of the Crown Heights Shmira street patrol who used a police baton in 2008 to attack a young black man. Shuchat fled to Israel and fought extradition for years. He was finally extraditied earlier this year and Thompson just gave him the sweetheat plea deal of all time.

Above: Yitzchak Shuchat

One Day in Prison: Brooklyn DA Does Sweetheart Plea Deal With Chabad Street Patrol Member Who Beat Innocent Black Teen
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson dropped hate crime charges against Yitzchak Shuchat, a member of the Crown Heights Shmira street patrol who used a police baton in 2008 to attack a 20-year-old black man in an unprovoked assault after Shuchat and fellow Shmira members apparently mistook him for another man who had allegedly committed a crime in the neighborhood.

Shuchat fled to Canada and then Israel to escape prosecution and fought extradition for years. He was finally extradited earlier this year to Brooklyn to stand trial and pleaded guilty to felony assault late last week.

The hate crimes charge was added about one year after the incident by then-Brooklyn DA Charles J. Hynes.

Fleeing prosecution and an unprovoked violent assault was not enough for Thompson to buck the powerful hasidic community.

Instead, Shuchat was given a sweetheart plea deal that will see him serve only one day in jail and perform 25 days of community service. Sentencing guidelines call for a 2-year to 7-year sentence. But to pave the way for that deal, the hate crimes charge had to first be dropped.

“Today’s guilty plea is an appropriate disposition of this matter because the facts of the case simply did not support a hate crime and there were no serious injuries,” Thompson reportedly said.

In the case of a violent assault against anti-child-sex-abuse activist Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, in which the Satmar hasidic assailant tried to blind Rosenberg by throwing bleach in his eyes, Thompson gave the perpetrator a no-prison plea deal and justified it by saying Rosenberg’s injuries were not serious or permanent. Yet almost two years after the assault, Rosenberg still suffers pain and discomfort and must use prescription eye medication on a daily basis.

“Bias is a very serious crime. We want our police and our courts to pursue bias crimes with full vigor, but only when the charges are justified. No one should ever be accused of this if it is not true. I am delighted that we have a man of Ken Thompson’s caliber as the Brooklyn District Attorney, pursuing justice, and happy that everyone involved in this case can now move forward with their lives,” New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind said, reflecting the haredi and Chabad viewpoint that the hate crime charge was unwarranted – even though it was clear Shuchat’s victim, the son of a NYPD officer, was targeted at least in part because of his skin color. Hikind previously openly fought against Shuchat’s extradition.

It is unusual for prosecutors to drop charges and make sweetheart plea deals with felons who flee prosecution – especially if they flee to a foreign country and fight extradition.

Thompson has made a series of decisions favoring the haredi community since taking office in January, from making a sweetheart no-prison plea deal with the Satmar hasidic man who assaulted Rosenberg, to making similar deals with other hasidic criminals, to failing to prosecute the hasidim who brought false evidence against hasidic child sex abuse whistleblower Sam Kellner to the DA. That false evidence lead to Kellner’s wrongful arrest and prosecution.

Since taking office, Thompson has also become close to several top Satmar community leaders – including at least one linked to the Kellner case.

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Comments

[S M L]

So Thompson is no better than Hynes or at least is headed down the same path. The Satmar dirty everything they touch. Glad I don't live in NY any longer.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

what a disgrace. they would have been right on all along in ferguson, with chabad heading the parade in crown heights. yiikes.

[ghost buster]

“Today’s guilty plea is an appropriate disposition of this matter because the facts of the case simply did not support a hate crime and there were no serious injuries,” Thompson reportedly said.

thank you mr. Thompson, real justice has been served in Brooklyn.

[dave]

Boo Hoo, wait till the sweetheart deal they get in Williamsburg

[yossie]

I follow your blog and comments for sometime now. I always keep in mind your bias and that's fine. You are intitled. But reading this post, I realize clearly you slanted the story for your bias. 1. The fact is, these two black kids were harrassing young mothers walking their children down the street, and throwing rocks and these mothers. 2. These two black kids provoked a hate crime by their initial actions of harrassment to white jewish women. 3. The response to this crime wa stopped in its tracks, without causing any "injury" to these black kids. Not a single cut, or blood, or broken bone, not even medical attention ! Not even a bandaid!. 4. Without any proof brought to DA hynes, he chose to charge yitzy with a hate crime! Even the black perps said, yitzy did not mention any racial slur! 5. The DA was determined to get this case, even threatening me, it was only after my lawyer responded, did the DA and police back off from the threat. 6. When yitzy realized he was being framed, he ran out of the clutches of this vendetta, and put together lawyers to work this out. The above are the facts, as I was directly involved with the police and the DA regarding this matter. So the DA thompson finally saw the truth and settled the issue!

[shuki]

The reason why this guy shuchat got of because there were witnesses that came forward with video footage of Charles cursing and throwing rocks

[yossie]

So u disagree with my comment, and u delete it?

[Miami rocks]

Charles, the son of Moses Charles, an NYPD officer, stated openly on News 12 that he believed the attack was an isolated attack and was not racially motivated. Despite the protests of both Shuchat and Charles, the attack was labeled a bias crime and the district attorney’s office convened a grand jury to conduct an investigation, something that Charles Hynes has done only four times in his twenty two year career as a district attorney.
Facts are that shuchat did time in Israeli jail while awaiting extradition which I'm sure Thompson took into consideration. He also was required to post 300 k bail and forfeit his passport.
I wouldn't call this a sweetheart deal.
Its failed messiah mission of promoting his own vendetta and hatred of any orthodox Jew .
Plain and simple .

[Shmarya]

yossie –

It's called a spam filter. Get over it. And no, your statement of the facts is not correct, either.

[Shmarya]

shuki –

The reason Shuchat got off is that Thompson is at best incompetent and at worst corrupt.

It was unprovoked assault carried out by a vigilante street patrol, and while I realize a Chabad education don't mean much, you may once have learned that such behavior is illegal.

[jimmy]

"The reason Shuchat got off is that Thompson is at best incompetent and at worst corrupt."

And yet you were the one pushing for his election..........
So, either you have very poor judgement (very likely, based on your opinions on the blog)and/or always looking to find fault in everyone

[MarkfromShortHills]

Filthy hasidic shit vote their way out of unbiased application of criminal law. Thompson is Hynes renamed, re-raced, and re-elected.

[Yosef]

Too bad there were no Chasidim (or any one else) around to stop that black man Ismail Abdula, who had a long criminal history, from murdering 2 NYPD officers who were of Asian and Hispanic origin.

[IC]

I don't believe there was proof at the start of the case to warrant the hate crime charges. Not commenting on the resolution of this case, but clearly from the get-go people felt Charles Hynes was trumping up charges.

Mr Hynes could 'swing both ways' and go after any body who he thought it was advantageous to. It would be interesting to hear what Mr. Charles (the victims) family have to say.

[Miami rocks]

Mark from Short hills.
You must be an ex chosid the way you curse .

I suggest shopping excursion to short hills or regular sessions with a clinical psychologist

[m]

this is very weird . after 5 years of hunting Yitzhak shuchat and bringing him to the US . suddenly , no trial ,and only 1 day of jail , weird .

this is a financial deal out of court settlement . the victim , Andrew Charles was paid big bucks to drop the trial ,
half a million $ , a million ?

who paid for that ? chabad ? and some of the deal paid by the state ?

[MG]

Good. Thompson is in the Jewish pockets. Good riddance to Hynes who put Weberman in jail.

[truthbearer]

Okay, let me sort this all out because I am a trained lawyer. Thompson did nothing other than 'suck up' and 'sell out' the rule of law to the Satmar community simply because he knows that they vote in a bloc. What happened to Nachum rosenberg was similiar to what occurred in the eightees to model marla hanson when she had her face slashed with a razor blade. the Jewish perp. who put the two black thugs up to that did fifteen years. This Hassidishe bastard who attempted to blind Rosenberg - and who almost did - should have gotten the same amount whether he succeeded or not. As far as Shuchat is concerned, this was no sweetheart deal but simply a set up to trumped up charges. Not only was this not a hate crime but it was not an assault either. Just becuase you hit someone with a stick does not mean that there are "serious" injuries which the law mandates that there be in order for assault charges to stick. It is only because Rosenberg was Jewish that Thompson allowed the no jail time deal. It is just like in the South when a black kills another black that there is often lax prosecution. This city is corrupt beyond any redemption. And Kenneth Thompson is no different than Charles Hynes.