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Hate-filled Brooklyn attackers spew slurs at interracial couple, threaten to lynch boyfriend
Bernard Szurantwas charged with assault, menacing, criminal mischief and harassment.
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SARAH GABRIELLICHRISTINA CARREGATHOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 3:55 AM
A pair of Brooklyn bigots unleashed a ferocious attack on an interracial couple, dropping the N-word and threatening a lynching before viciously beating the twosome.
“I feel like I’m back 50 years ago or something,” said Anna, 38, who was attacked with her boyfriend, John, outside Coney Island Hospital last weekend.
“Being attacked for (our races) — it’s the first time,” she told the Daily News on Tuesday. “I’ve never felt any hate from people that live here.”
Anna is a white native of Moldova, while John, 42, is a black man from Trinidad. Both asked that their last names be omitted to prevent any reprisals from their accused racist tormenters.
Anna and John were planning to celebrate their sixth anniversary when they ran into the foul-mouthed assailants, who police identified as Bernard Szurant and Rudolph Evmenenko. The couple had just parked their car and was crossing E. 17th St. and Ave. R in Sheepshead Bay at 5:50 a.m. on Saturday when a soused Szurant and Evmenenko began their hate-fueled barrage, according to the victims and authorities.
“This is our neighborhood you f-----g n-----! Get out of here!” Szurant, 25, and Evmenenko, 27, allegedly screamed just before the 6:30 a.m. assault.
The pair threatened to “crack (John) open,” according to court documents.
The drunken assailants were slurring their words, recalled Anna, a home health aide.
“They were basically torturing (John),” she said. “They couldn’t hit him because he’s tall and they were smaller, (but) they literally attached to his body and wouldn’t let go. Like leeches.”
John was more concerned for his girlfriend’s safety.
“I was trying to sort of be a barrier between her and them,” he said. “I was more concerned about her because she just threw herself right in the middle of it.”
The vile insults escalated into threats. “Go back to your neighborhood, we’re going to lynch you, you f------ charcoal burner!” said one of the suspects.
John was paralyzed by the in-your-face insults and imminent threat of violence.
“They said something about ‘I want to lynch your a--’ or something like that. They know enough about black history to know that, apparently,” John said.
The attackers then jumped him, hitting him repeatedly in the face, cops said.
John sustained a gash to his arm as he tried to defend himself, according to court documents.
"A couple times they feigned that they had a weapon, acted like they had a gun, and that was a bit unnerving,” John said. “I said to him, 'You're not a man if you can't use your hands.’”
“(John) didn't want to cause serious injuries,” said Anna. “He was a professional boxer years ago. He knows how to protect himself from hits. If they couldn't get a good shot on him, he wasn't gonna take the first shot."
Anna said she starting pushing and kicking the two men.
“I started praying and begging God to help us,” she recalled.
"It was about a 10-minute ordeal from beginning to end,” John said. “It seemed like it went on forever but, as far as fights go, that's an eternity.”
When Anna tried to call 911, Evmenenko knocked the cell phone out of her hand and returned to beating, police said.
"This was going on all the way until the cops literally pulled up in the car and they grabbed them off of him,” Anna said.
Cops took both men into custody at the scene. But Szurant didn’t go quietly — and began threatening the black NYPD detective taking him into custody, police said.
“I know you,” he told the detective. “I know where you work. I am going to come to the 61st Precinct and f------ kill you, you f------ n-----.”
And the tirade continued.
“You p---- n-----,” he screamed. “I hate n------!”
Cops charged both Szurant and Evmenenko with assault, menacing, criminal mischief and harassment. Szurant was also charged with harassment in the threatening of the detective.
A judge ordered the two released from jail following a brief Sunday arraignment, with orders to stay away from Anna and John.
Calls to their attorneys were not immediately returned.
Szurant has an extensive criminal history with 23 arrests, including robbery, records show.
In October 2015, he was arrested for choking his sister in a dispute over money, according to court documents.
John was taken aback when he learned of his alleged attacker’s long rap sheet.
“So it's only a matter of time before he does something to really hurt somebody. I feel like I got to pray about this,” he said. “It sounds like he is on the path for a criminal career sort of thing. That's insanity."
Evmenenko is on the opposite side of the spectrum with just one arrest — criminal possession of marijuana in July 2016.
Neighbors said Szurant is often violent.
"He uses some type of drugs and that makes him react really angrily," said one neighbor who asked for anonymity. “The police have come 50 million times ... he threatened his mother with a knife.
"He's like any kid -- young, gets messed up in drugs and the wrong crowd -- and this is the reaction," he said.
Anna said she and John remain scarred by the experience, but they are not going to let it ruin their relationship.
As they walked down the street together in the following days, John told Anna to keep her head up high.
"We are closer now more than ever,” she said. “I feel that we've been more protective of each other. More sympathetic and understanding."
John said the terrifying ordeal made him reflect on the culture around him.
"I've always felt that living in this part of Brooklyn there is this sort of deep-seated racism,” he said. “For them to make that attack based on pure racism is a sad sort of commentary on where we are at in this society at this given time.
“It's disappointing, it was scary, it was unnerving,” he said. “But thank God we didn't get hurt."
Bernard Szurantwas charged with assault, menacing, criminal mischief and harassment.
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SARAH GABRIELLICHRISTINA CARREGATHOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 3:55 AM
A pair of Brooklyn bigots unleashed a ferocious attack on an interracial couple, dropping the N-word and threatening a lynching before viciously beating the twosome.
“I feel like I’m back 50 years ago or something,” said Anna, 38, who was attacked with her boyfriend, John, outside Coney Island Hospital last weekend.
“Being attacked for (our races) — it’s the first time,” she told the Daily News on Tuesday. “I’ve never felt any hate from people that live here.”
Anna is a white native of Moldova, while John, 42, is a black man from Trinidad. Both asked that their last names be omitted to prevent any reprisals from their accused racist tormenters.
Anna and John were planning to celebrate their sixth anniversary when they ran into the foul-mouthed assailants, who police identified as Bernard Szurant and Rudolph Evmenenko. The couple had just parked their car and was crossing E. 17th St. and Ave. R in Sheepshead Bay at 5:50 a.m. on Saturday when a soused Szurant and Evmenenko began their hate-fueled barrage, according to the victims and authorities.
“This is our neighborhood you f-----g n-----! Get out of here!” Szurant, 25, and Evmenenko, 27, allegedly screamed just before the 6:30 a.m. assault.
The pair threatened to “crack (John) open,” according to court documents.
The drunken assailants were slurring their words, recalled Anna, a home health aide.
“They were basically torturing (John),” she said. “They couldn’t hit him because he’s tall and they were smaller, (but) they literally attached to his body and wouldn’t let go. Like leeches.”
John was more concerned for his girlfriend’s safety.
“I was trying to sort of be a barrier between her and them,” he said. “I was more concerned about her because she just threw herself right in the middle of it.”
The vile insults escalated into threats. “Go back to your neighborhood, we’re going to lynch you, you f------ charcoal burner!” said one of the suspects.
John was paralyzed by the in-your-face insults and imminent threat of violence.
“They said something about ‘I want to lynch your a--’ or something like that. They know enough about black history to know that, apparently,” John said.
The attackers then jumped him, hitting him repeatedly in the face, cops said.
John sustained a gash to his arm as he tried to defend himself, according to court documents.
"A couple times they feigned that they had a weapon, acted like they had a gun, and that was a bit unnerving,” John said. “I said to him, 'You're not a man if you can't use your hands.’”
“(John) didn't want to cause serious injuries,” said Anna. “He was a professional boxer years ago. He knows how to protect himself from hits. If they couldn't get a good shot on him, he wasn't gonna take the first shot."
Anna said she starting pushing and kicking the two men.
“I started praying and begging God to help us,” she recalled.
"It was about a 10-minute ordeal from beginning to end,” John said. “It seemed like it went on forever but, as far as fights go, that's an eternity.”
When Anna tried to call 911, Evmenenko knocked the cell phone out of her hand and returned to beating, police said.
"This was going on all the way until the cops literally pulled up in the car and they grabbed them off of him,” Anna said.
Cops took both men into custody at the scene. But Szurant didn’t go quietly — and began threatening the black NYPD detective taking him into custody, police said.
“I know you,” he told the detective. “I know where you work. I am going to come to the 61st Precinct and f------ kill you, you f------ n-----.”
And the tirade continued.
“You p---- n-----,” he screamed. “I hate n------!”
Cops charged both Szurant and Evmenenko with assault, menacing, criminal mischief and harassment. Szurant was also charged with harassment in the threatening of the detective.
A judge ordered the two released from jail following a brief Sunday arraignment, with orders to stay away from Anna and John.
Calls to their attorneys were not immediately returned.
Szurant has an extensive criminal history with 23 arrests, including robbery, records show.
In October 2015, he was arrested for choking his sister in a dispute over money, according to court documents.
John was taken aback when he learned of his alleged attacker’s long rap sheet.
“So it's only a matter of time before he does something to really hurt somebody. I feel like I got to pray about this,” he said. “It sounds like he is on the path for a criminal career sort of thing. That's insanity."
Evmenenko is on the opposite side of the spectrum with just one arrest — criminal possession of marijuana in July 2016.
Neighbors said Szurant is often violent.
"He uses some type of drugs and that makes him react really angrily," said one neighbor who asked for anonymity. “The police have come 50 million times ... he threatened his mother with a knife.
"He's like any kid -- young, gets messed up in drugs and the wrong crowd -- and this is the reaction," he said.
Anna said she and John remain scarred by the experience, but they are not going to let it ruin their relationship.
As they walked down the street together in the following days, John told Anna to keep her head up high.
"We are closer now more than ever,” she said. “I feel that we've been more protective of each other. More sympathetic and understanding."
John said the terrifying ordeal made him reflect on the culture around him.
"I've always felt that living in this part of Brooklyn there is this sort of deep-seated racism,” he said. “For them to make that attack based on pure racism is a sad sort of commentary on where we are at in this society at this given time.
“It's disappointing, it was scary, it was unnerving,” he said. “But thank God we didn't get hurt."
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