According to a report, the New York district attorney offered a plea deal to a suspect who attacked a Jewish man in 2021. The suspect has since said he would “do it again.”
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is offering a plea deal to Waseem Awawdeh, 24, for his alleged role in beating Joseph Borgen, 29, with crutches, punching, kicking and pepper-spraying him, according to the New York Sun.
The alleged six-month plea deal comes after Awawdeh told one of his jailers that he would repeat the assault, saying, “If I could do it again, I would do it again,” according to a prosecutor at the arraignment hearing for Awawdeh charges in Manhattan Criminal Court. .
“I have no problem doing it again,” he added of the attack that took place last year near Broadway and West 49th Street.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg at the New York District Attorney’s office to face charges on September 8, 2022, in New York City.
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Awawdeh was charged with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, threats, aggravated harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon in the 2021 attack and faced a maximum of seven years if convicted of the charges.
Mahmoud Musa, Faisal Elezzi and Mohammed Othman were also charged in the attack, which was unprovoked, prosecutors told Judge Kathryn Paek in 2021.
During the assault, Awawdeh allegedly called Borgen a “dirty Jew,” said, “Fuck Israel,” and said, “Hamas is going to kill you all.”
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Borgen shared his recollection of the attack, including his injuries.
“I felt liquid being poured on my face, and at first I thought I was being urinated on,” Borgen told The New York Post in 2021.
Joseph Borgen, a recent victim of a hate crime, speaks during a rally denouncing anti-Semitic violence on May 27, 2021 in Cedarhurst, New York.
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People listen to Joseph Borgen, a recent victim of a hate crime, speak during a rally denouncing anti-Semitic violence on May 27, 2021 in Cedarhurst, New York.
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“But it turned out they were pepper spraying me and they were pepper spraying me. My face was on fire,” he said at the time. “That pain was worse than the concussion and everything else that followed.”
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Borgen also explained that he was in shock, had injuries to his arm and was in pain “all over” his body.
“I had an X-ray on my wrist. It’s not broken, but it’s messy. Every time I move it, it hurts, it’s probably a sprain,” he recalled at the time. “I have bruises all over my body. I have a black eye. My face is bruised. My whole body aches. They were kicking me in the ribs, in the stomach.”
The Post reported that Awawdeh’s attorney said “no decision has been made” on the district attorney’s offer.
