I screamed ‘What do you want from me?’: Hasidic victim describes Brooklyn attack: Leopold Schwartz says cab driver Farrukh Afzal assaulted him without provocation: ‘If he had a knife, he would stab me on the spot’. Sixty-two-year-old Leopold Schwartz, who was assaulted by a taxi driver on a Brooklyn street on Sunday in what has been dubbed a likely hate crime, has recounted the frightening moments of his assault by Farrukh Afzal. The attack took place at about 7:30 a.m. in the Borough Park neighborhood. Schwartz, a Hasidic Jew, was on his way to morning services and was standing at an intersection, when Afzal, a cab driver, stopped his car suddenly, rushed at him and began to beat him. Read More: https://www.timesofisrael.com/hasidic-victim-recalls-attack-by-enraged-cab-driver-on-brooklyn-street/
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