The 16-year-old boy is reportedly "alright," and claims to have grown accustomed to the frequent incidences of antisemitism in his neighborhood.
The rabbi fled to a nearby supermarket but was ejected for attempting to photograph his pursuing attacker.
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the most prominent of several separatist groups in Balochistan, claimed responsibility for the assault in a statement.
Protestors began by attempting to yank the flag out of the Jewish man's hands and then proceeded to attack him as a group. "I was completely surrounded. They started punching me in the head," he said
A former friend of main suspect Christian Brueckner, Manfred Seyferth, recounted seeing a video in which Brueckner assaulted the three-year-old girl.
Bechir Lehbeib, 26, told police he was a Palestinian and arrived in the US via the US/Mexico in November.
One of the arrested youths can be seen coming up to Father Nikodemus Schnabel. The young man is then caught on video spitting at Schnabel and saying an expletive about Jesus.
Police on Wednesday arrested Tireek Myrick, 32, in the Jan. 28 assault of Rabbi Menachem Shemtov, the Chabad rabbi at Georgetown University.
Multiple instances of assaults against bus drivers have been reported in recent years – a concerning trend as bus accidents have the capacity to injure many people.
The suspect, in her 50s, was taken in for questioning by police after a physical altercation with the minister.
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