NEW YORK
CNN
By Rande Iaboni and Marina Carver, CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) – New York police have arrested a man for throwing a chemical, believed to be bleach, on a rabbi who advocates for sexual abuse victims.
Meilech Schnitzler, 36, turned himself in to police Wednesday and was charged with assault, menacing, criminal mischief, and criminal possession of a weapon.
He is accused of attacking Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg in Brooklyn’s tightknit Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg on Tuesday.
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