This is an unexpected sentence. The way things are going, Mohammed Othman or someone like him will be mayor of New York City before too long.
“Jewish victim of NY gang ‘more than satisfied’ with attacker’s prison sentence,” by Mike Wagenheim, JNS, December 24, 2023:
A New York court sentenced Mohammed Othman, who brutally attacked Joseph Borgen on May 20, 2021, to five-and-a-half years in prison on Wednesday.
Othman assaulted and pepper-sprayed Borgen on Broadway near West 49th Street in the Diamond District while the latter was en route to a pro-Israel rally during the Israel-Gaza war (“Operation Pillar of Defense”). Othman pleaded guilty in October to second-degree assault as a hate crime.
Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge Felicia Mennin added five years of post-release supervision to Othman’s sentence. Prosecutors had asked for five years of incarceration for Othman, who was the second defendant in the case whom Mennin sentenced beyond what prosecutors sought….
Borgen was wearing a yarmulke when Othman and four other men ambushed him, shouting antisemitic slurs. Punched and kicked repeatedly and beaten with a crutch, Borgen suffered a concussion, wrist injury and black eye. His body was left bruised. He said he will require another wrist surgery and still deals with the incident’s lingering physical effects.
Video evidence showed Othman pepper-spraying Borgen three times and spraying a bystander who tried to protect Borgen. Othman was also recorded throwing a firework at a Jewish woman, burning her, from the back of a pickup truck.
Othman, 26, of Staten Island, had six prior arrests, including domestic violence charges….
Three other attackers have been sentenced. Waseem Awawdeh, who beat Borgen with a crutch and reportedly said of the attack, “If I could do it again, I would,” pleaded guilty to attempted assault as a hate crime and received 18 months in jail.
In November, Mahmoud Musa received seven years in prison for his role in the attack, when he maced, kicked, punched and beat Borgen with crutches. The sentence was six months beyond the prosecutor’s recommendation….
Tatanka says
Why is that A-hole together with the other 4 miscreants not deported ?
John1 says
+1
rick says
Three other attackers have been sentenced. Waseem Awawdeh, who beat Borgen with a crutch and reportedly said of the attack, “If I could do it again, I would…
That is what Israel is facing in Gaza. No repentance. No “sorry”. It’s just “I hate Jews so much I would do it again.” There is no solving that other than moving them away from Israel.
Kuffar says
Finally… He should get more.
bagsgroove says
Give them sparkie chairs !
Rick says
How/why are people like this in the US?
SteveC says
Much easier to let him die in jail. Just tell hillary he has dirt on her.
William Kemmler says
“A New York court sentenced Mohammed Othman, who brutally attacked Joseph Borgen on May 20, 2021, to five-and-a-half years in prison on Wednesday.”
Oh please, five-and-a-half years in prison is nothing. Othman and the others will be out in half that time or less. It’s the way the legal system and prisons work these days. Most states are under federal court order to reduce their prison populations so they use any excuse to release prisoners early. Disgusting but true.
OLD GUY says
And while they are in prison they will be spreading islam and making plans to attack more American citizens. If they are nor born in America citizens DEPORT them. If they are born in America make them serve the full sentence and no special food or treatment because they are islamic.
FYI says
I prefer to call it
“Operation hammering the ass out of hamas”
Forget about politics{Zionism etc} or who is behind this/what caused this for a minute:Israel is hammering hamas and are fighting terrorist scumbags on our behalf..They are defending their Biblically Sanctioned ancestral homeland.And the west.
In a way the IDF is like a Biblical Army.They have rules of engagement and have the Law of Moses.
hamas have no rules of engagement and no law at all.
It’s like a posse going after a bunch of murderous child killing rapist trash ,evil desperadoes, but the Leftist media is so morally bankrupt and corrupt it makes out the posse to be the bad guys,
Nobody wants kids involved killed or hurt-except hamas.
The IDF are not .carpet bombing indiscriminately or targeting children {hamas do that}but thet are hammering hamas
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why, was he a Trump supporter? 😈
Nigel F says
I hope these evil mohammedan filthsacks have a horrible time in prison. Lower than pond scum they are.
Troybeam says
Happy this judge gave a sentence however low in time to serve, at least he not not sent it to the sharia courts to handle.
Terry says
He should be deported and banned from the West. And all like him! One citizenship one passport, and all this gets whiddled down. It is nonsense that our so-called State Department, AG and the Department of Justice cannot force and deport all these rabble -rouser’s, most of whom have falsely came here anyway! But wait! Those same parties are supporting this garbage! Islamism, Globalism, Marxism, and the whole hosts of criminal gangs, crime families, thugs, and punks; aided and abetted if not led by shady Organizations, Grants, Foundations, and supra-national groups, nation states, and billions of people who are just mean, demented, selfish, self-willed, and greedy. Looks to me like Revelations may be about to burst upon God’s world- not the Dragon’s and his Beast’s and his systems, his Mystery Whore of Babylon, and his hordes of depraved and demonic billions.