Hate Crime Case Against Yitzhak Shuchat, Resurrects Crown Heights' Racial Tension

NEW YORK (AP) ? Yitzhak Shuchat, a white member of a civilian patrol group, and Andrew Charles, the black son of a police officer, came face to face in 2008 in a neighborhood with a history of racial strife ? that much is certain.

But six years later, the circumstances of the encounter in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn remain murky, even as prosecutors pursue charges against 28-year-old Shuchat alleging he attacked Charles because of his race. Shuchat's supporters in the neighborhood's Orthodox Jewish community have reacted with dismay over what they call a hate crime investigation gone awry.

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Fuente: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/02/yitzhak-shuchat-hate-crim_n_5644107.html