Man arrested for Brooklyn anti-Semitic slap: NYPD

A man was arrested Thursday and charged with a hate crime for allegedly slapping a Hasidic man who was walking in Williamsburg, cops said.

Carrington Maddox, 31, was charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime and menacing for attacking a 27-year-old man dressed in traditional garb on Monday, according to police.

The victim was approached by a stranger who randomly slapped him on the left side of the face in front of 144 Lynch St. around 4:30 p.m. –  the third suspected anti-Semitic attack in Brooklyn in two days, according to cops.

Maddox was arrested from a tip to the NYPD’s CrimeStoppers hotline, police said. 

The attack came a day after two other disturbing assaults occurred against Jewish men in the neighborhood, cops said.

The pair of assaults happened within minutes of each other just after 6 a.m. Sunday, police said.

The Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is probing them, as well.

Surveillance video of the first incident shows an attacker blasting a 72-year-old man dressed in traditional Hasidic garb with the white spray of a fire extinguisher on Taylor Street and Lee Avenue.

The victim, who asked not to be named, told CBS2 that a group approached him from behind and one of them chased him before spraying him in the head.

“One guy ran after me, and he started to spray,” the victim told the station. “I tried to walk as fast as I can.”

In the second incident, an attacker unleashed an extinguisher on a 66-year-old Jewish man and then punched him at the nearby intersection of Roebling and Third streets before fleeing, cops said.