Posted on 06/13/2023 11:22:21 AM PDT by thegagline
A Jewish man who was beaten by a mob in a hate attack in Midtown told a courtroom Tuesday he couldn’t “fathom” why his attacker got a plea deal from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office — as the assailant was handed an 18-month prison term.
Joseph Borgen, 31, delivered a fiery victim impact statement at the Manhattan Supreme Court sentencing of Waseem Awawdeh, 24, for attacking Borgen during a clash between Israel and Palestine supporters on May, 20, 2021.
“Why is he getting a break? I really can’t fathom why he’s getting a deal. Me, personally, I wanted to go to trial, I wanted to see full justice,” Borgen, wearing a blue yarmulke, told the court.
Awawdeh had been offered a six-month sentence by prosecutors in District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office in exchange for his guilty plea to attempted assault in the second degree as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon.
Judge Felicia Mennin, however, handed down the harsher sentence, saying: “The behavior of the group was despicable… This is not how people behave in a civilized society. ***
“What kind of message does this send – to everybody, to all victims of hate crime?” [Borgen queried]
Awawdeh – who said in a jail cell that he would “do it again,” according to prosecutors *** “My biggest fear is you’re not going to do anything, you’re not going to do anything. You’ll go to jail for a year, go back to what you were doing and attack another Jew,” Borgen told him. “You said you would do it again – why don’t you do it again?”
Awawdeh’s attorney Peter Frankel defended his client and said that Awawdeh isn’t antisemitic – despite Awawdeh allegedly calling Borgen a “dirty Jew” during the attack. ***
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Most Jews in the USA are proud demonrats and they have voted demonrat for years, Isn’t this what you and your friends have been voting for your entire lives??
Alvin is nothing but a useless Soros Troll
So it’s OK to assault Jews because they vote Democrat. I see this all the time. No condemnation of the criminal. Just “Maybe you shouldn’t vote Democrat” if you’re Jewish.
From Trump, all the way down
There are no “fair” trials in NYC - only political ones
How did you vote, Joseph? Thought so.
Borgen wears a kippah (yarmulke) in public so he is probably not a Reformed Jew like Merrick Garland, Antony Blinken, Alejandro Mayorkas, “Rachel” Levine etc. The Orthodox and Conservative Jews are markedly different from the Reformed Jews.
Who did the victim vote for in NYC
Phew good thing the perp’s last name isn’t Trump otherwise he’d be in solitary right now
Brilliant. That's the truth. Every trial in New York City is political.
Don’t forget the context of the attacker, Awawdeh, a fascist free Palestine Arab - residing in the US
“I really can’t fathom why he’s getting a deal.”
I can. Jew-hating prosecutor gives Jew-hater a break.
BINGO. I doubt that they will learn anything from this latest experience.
Well said.
What’s to fathom? Most lib blacks seem to be anti-Semitic, and in addition, bragg wants these crimes and more.
This guy suffered a concussion. That’s not play time. If I’m DA I’m saying to the defense attorney get ready for trial.
Observant and Orthodox Jews including Chabad ones are strong supporters of Trump and are reliably conservative GOP voters.
The Conservative, Reform (Liberal) and Humanistic Jews are majority Dem.
Dennis Prager said: “Jews who continue to vote democrat year after year believe they are still voting for Franklin D. Roosevelt.” (Yes, FDR was anti-semitic in his behind the scenes planning and sold Jews out in WWII.)
Yea, but they still vote democrat and I can’t “fathom” why.
So Orthodox Jews and committed Zionist (both groups being overwhelmingly Republican) are responsible for the stupidity of liberal Jews?
I guess then you are responsible for Joe Biden’s actions, right?
He’s a white male gentile, isn’t he? That makes you guilty of his sins, by your logic.
Or is your statement flawed?
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