A 71-year-old man was arrested Friday, about two weeks after a woman recorded him yelling racially charged slurs at her and others riding in a motorcade in support of Palestine, according to police.
The woman went to the Teaneck Police Station in Bergen County on April 14 to report she was participating in a motor vehicle procession on Teaneck Road when a man began yelling from a passenger seat in a vehicle next to her.
A rear-seat passenger spit at the victim and the driver allegedly brandished a knife, the woman told police.
“The victim recorded the altercation and provided the video as evidence of the criminal conduct,” Teaneck Police Chief Andrew R. McGurr said in a statement.
McGurr said police identified the driver as Ebrahim Yehounatan, of Flushing, New York.
Yehounatan’s name was entered into a national crime database and he was arrested on a warrant Friday in Ocean County by officers with the Lakewood Police Department, McGurr said.
Teaneck police charged Yehounatan with second and fourth-degree bias intimidation, a third-degree weapons offense, and harassment as a disorderly person’s crime.
Yehounatan was taken Friday to the Bergen County Jail ahead of a court appearance, according to police. Attorney information for the man was not listed in court records on Friday afternoon.
The person who spit at the motorcade was not charged. “The rear-seat passenger of the vehicle was identified and a legal review of his conduct determined that his actions did not rise to the level of criminality,” McGurr said.
Anyone with information about the incident or other investigations is asked to call the Teaneck Police Department at 201-837-2600.
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