Driver rams automotive repeatedly into doorways of NYC Jewish web site, suspect detained

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A driver was taken into custody on Wednesday night time after police say the person deliberately and repeatedly rammed a automobile into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York Metropolis, damaging among the Jewish web site’s doorways.

NYPD and Chabad Lubavitch spokesperson Motti Seligson mentioned there have been no obvious accidents.

The automobile was inspected by the NYPD bomb squad, and no explosives had been discovered. The motive force shouted to bystanders that "it slipped" and mentioned one thing to police about making an attempt to park.

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Police mentioned there have been no obvious accidents. (AP)

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned the crash was being investigated as a hate crime .

The U.S. Justice Division additionally introduced it opened a civil rights investigation into the incident.

"I've instructed our legal prosecutors in @CivilRights to open a civil rights investigation into this violent assault," Assistant Lawyer Common for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon mentioned on X.

<source media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/672/378/mamdani-responds-to-nypd-commissioner-brother-remarks.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/1344/756/mamdani-responds-to-nypd-commissioner-brother-remarks.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" height="378" width="672"><source media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/931/523/mamdani-responds-to-nypd-commissioner-brother-remarks.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/1862/1046/mamdani-responds-to-nypd-commissioner-brother-remarks.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" height="523" width="931"> New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani mentioned the incident was "deeply alarming" and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned the crash was being investigated as a hate crime. (Getty Pictures)

New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani mentioned the incident was "deeply alarming" and that " antisemitism has no place in our metropolis."

"I'm at 770 Chabad World Headquarters in Crown Heights, the place a person deliberately, and repeatedly, crashed his automotive into the constructing. I'm relieved that nobody was injured on this horrifying incident," the mayor wrote on X.

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The U.S. Justice Division additionally introduced it opened a civil rights investigation into the incident. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

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"That is deeply alarming, particularly given the deep that means and historical past of the establishment to so many in New York and world wide," he continued. "Any menace to a Jewish establishment or place of worship have to be taken severely. Antisemitism has no place in our metropolis, and violence or intimidation in opposition to Jewish New Yorkers is unacceptable."

Mamdani added: "I stand in solidarity with the Crown Heights Jewish neighborhood, and I'm grateful to our first responders for taking swift motion. I'll maintain New Yorkers up to date as we be taught extra in regards to the incident."