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A Jewish New Yorker who was stabbed in a brazen antisemitic attack in Brooklyn said Tuesday he’s glad cops have taken the alleged hateful goon off the streets.
“I’m thankful for the hard work and communication of the NYPD,” Elias Rosner told The Post, one day after cops nabbed 23-year-old Armani Charles and charged him with the Dec. 16 hate crime attack in Crown Heights.
“I’m glad that they got him off the street and he can’t hurt anyone else.”
Rosner, 35, a member of the Lubavitch Hasidic community, said last week that he had just left a synagogue when he spotted the assailant walking down the street spewing hateful threats.
“I’m going to kill Jewish people, I’m going to kill a Jew today, I don’t give a f–k,” Rosner recalled the creep saying. “We wouldn’t be in this mess if the Holocaust had happened.”
Rosner said the maniac picked him out of the crowd and targeted him because he “was the one guy that has the bravery to look him in the eye.”
He said he has martial arts training and was able to fend off most of the attack after the fiend pulled a knife.
But he still suffered a deep wound to the chest that came within centimeters of his heart.
The suspect remained on the loose until Monday, when police arrested Charles.
Charles was charged with attempted assault, assault, aggravated harassment and menacing, all as a hate crime, police said.
Sources said he has no prior arrests and no history of mental health issues.
He was awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court Tuesday.
— Additional reporting by Joe Marino
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