Suleiman Othman Plea Bargained
On December 26, 2021, Blake Zavadsky was on 86th Street in Bay Ridge. Suleiman Othman, from Staten Island, did not like Zavadsky’s sweatshirt with the IDF emblem and told him to take it off. (Story here)
Othman pleaded guilty to attempted third-degree assault as a hate crime in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday.
In January 2022, not one Bay Ridge politician spoke out against this. Some even blamed the victim. But a hate crime is a hate crime. Inna Vernikov and Ari Kagan rallied against the hate. (See here)
Othman will receive a 60-day jail term and three years’ probation.
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