A Rockland County mailman’s attack on a 4-year-old Jewish boy is not being treated as a hate crime because cops don’t believe it had anything to do with the tot’s religion, police told The Post on Sunday.
Shocking video caught the post-office employee allegedly going postal and shoving the child to the ground when he came near him while he was working his route in Ramapo last week.
The 39-year-old United States Postal Service worker, Gabriel Stan, who neighbors said lives with his parents in Stony Point, was initially charged with endangering the welfare of a child and misdemeanor attempted assault.
Cops then slapped an extra charge of felony attempted assault after outcry from the community.
The footage shows the youngster approaching the mail carrier, who then shoves the boy so hard that the child’s yarmulke is knocked off his head and he goes flying onto the sidewalk.
The kid is then seen retrieving his yarmulke and walking away.
“Oh, man! That is crazy,” one of Stan’s neighbors told The Post on Sunday of the situation. “You sure?
“I have a 10-year-old, and if he ever did anything like that to my kids it would get ugly quick,” the neighbor said. “I am shocked. He never seemed like a guy who’d do that.”
The incident occurred in a heavily Jewish Orthodox community in the suburban county, sparking concerns that it was an anti-Semitic attack.
But Ramapo police said Sunday that the incident was not believed to be a hate crime, although they did not explain why.
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