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Plea Deal In Beating Of Jewish Nassau County Man Decried As 'Dangerous Precedent' Plea Deal In Beating Of Jewish Nassau County Man Decried As 'Dangerous Precedent'
Plea Deal In Beating Of Jewish Nassau County Man Decried As 'Dangerous Precedent' Leaders on Long Island are blasting plans to offer a plea deal to a man accused of brutally beating a Jewish man in an antisemitic attack that was caught on video. Joseph Borgen, age 29, of Nassau County, was attacked by several people in Midtown Manhattan in May 2021, according to police. Video posted on Twitter shows several people kicking and throwing things at him. He was also struck repeatedly with crutches and pepper-sprayed. Borgen later told the Times of Israel he was attacked for wearing a yarmulke while walking to a pro-Israel rally. “I was literally just in a fetal position, t…