NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police released surveillance video Tuesday night of a suspect in the case of a Hasidic Jewish man injured after he was attacked Tuesday morning in a Brooklyn park with a large rock. The NYPD hate crimes unit is investigating.
"A 64 year old Jewish man was violently assaulted in Rochester Park in Crown Heights," council member Chaim Deutsch tweeted, along with a photo of the rock. "THIS is the weapon that was used against him."
The man was identified as Avraham Gopin.
Gopin -- who, along with a passer-by, chased the suspect -- was transported to a hospital.
“He sustained a head injury which required 3 staples, a broken nose, as well as suffered a bruised leg and the loss of two teeth,” Gopin's son-in-law Rabbi Getzy Markowitz told COLlive.com. "He fought back, while being hit in the head with the brick."
In light of a recent rash of anti-Semitic, Deutsch wrote, "Has it become too dangerous for openly religious Jewish men to walk the streets of NYC?"
Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams tweeted, "I'm disgusted by the vicious attack on Avraham Gopin this morning in Crown Heights' Lincoln Terrace Park. No one should be attacked, hate-fueled or not. Violence is violence, wrong is wrong."
The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is investigating the incident.
The incident took place around 8 a.m.