A former National Security Council employee from the time Barack Obama was president of the United States was arrested after videos were released of him using Islamophobic and hateful language against an employee working in a trailer in New York, according to reports. the police announced.
Stuart Seldowitz, 64, was arrested Wednesday on preliminary charges of hate crime and stalking, second-degree aggravated harassment, harassment and workplace stalking.
However, it remains unclear what charges Seldowitz will face when the Manhattan district attorney’s office takes up the case.
“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian children, that wasn’t enough!” says Obama’s former national security adviser, Stuart Seldowitz, in yet another video taunting a Muslim street vendor in New York. The liberal and human mask of the Zionists fell with the current… pic.twitter.com/WJfZIOWSw2
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Before the arrest was announced, Seldowitz confirmed to CNN via email that he was the one who appeared in the videos, which were recorded by a salesperson in the trailer on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and appear to be from different days.
In the released videos, Seldowitz mocks Islam, insults the man about his citizenship, accuses him of supporting Hamas and refers to the war between Israel and Hamas.
“You support the killing of young children,” the former National Security Council official told the seller, who responded: “You are the one killing children, not me.” “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian children, you know what? That wouldn’t be enough,” Seldowitz responded.
In another video, Seldowitz tells the seller that he will put up “big signs” at that location saying that the seller “believes in Hamas.” “Mukhabarat [o Serviço Geral de Inteligência do Egito], in Egypt, will receive his parents. Does your dad love his nails? They will take them out one by one,” he said in another video.
Seldowitz also made derogatory comments about the Prophet Muhammad and Islam.
Seldowitz said Daily beast that although he initiated conversation with the food vendor about current affairs, the videos only show one side of the story, accusing the vendor of instigating the interaction by allegedly expressing support for Hamas. “I’m sorry everything happened and I’m sorry. But in the heat of the moment I said things I probably shouldn’t have said,” he said. City & State.
The attorney who represents street vendors throughout New York City told CNN on Tuesday that the man who recorded the videos told him that Seldowitz had been tormenting his trailer since Nov. 8.
Source: DN
