Daily Stormer
October 17, 2015
Pretty sure this is a new thing.
I’ve never heard of being charged with a hate crime for a crime against a member of your own race before. Maybe it’s happened and I’ve missed it.
Daily Camera:
The suspect who pleaded guilty to hitting a Jewish man over the head with a pint glass for refusing to take off his yarmulke in a Boulder bar last year was sentenced to 28 days in jail Friday.
His co-defendant, an Israeli-born Jew who pleaded guilty to kicking the same victim during that assault, received five days on a jail work crew.
Both Bryan Tayefeh, 30, and Yotam Monjack, 27, who each pleaded guilty to hate-crime charges, were sentenced in separate hearings in Boulder District Court.
Tayefeh pleaded guilty to one count of felony menacing and misdemeanor counts of third-degree assault and bias-motivated crime, while Monjack pleaded guilty to one count of felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor counts of third-degree assault and bias-motivated crime.
Boulder District Judge Patrick Butler sentenced Tayefeh to two separate 14-day sentences in the Boulder County Jail. He will have to serve one stint between Jan. 1 and June 30 and the other between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2016.
Tayefeh also was sentenced to five years of probation, but will be allowed to serve that in his home state of California. He must also perform 200 hours of community service, either in California or Colorado.
Per the terms of his plea deal, Monjack received a deferred two-year sentence on his felony count, which means the guilty plea will be wiped from his record if he can avoid further criminal charges during that time.
Butler also gave Monjack two years of probation to be served alongside the deferred sentence.
The two men were accused of assaulting a Jewish man at the Sundown Saloon, 1136 Pearl St., on Dec. 19, 2014. According to court records, Seth Fineman, 22, said he was with a friend when Tayefeh and Monjack told him to remove his yarmulke, a skullcap traditionally worn by Jewish men.
Fineman told investigators he refused to take off the yarmulke and began to step away when Tayefeh hit him in the head with a pint glass. Surveillance video showed Monjack kicking at Fineman.
Fineman was taken to a local hospital with a laceration to his head that required 20 stitches.
Boulder Deputy District Attorney JP Martin said that Fineman to this day carries a scar on his head and has had trouble wearing his yarmulke in public.
“It affected him that night, it affected him for the past eight months and it will continue to affect him in the future,” Martin said.
While both defendants went through a restorative justice program with Fineman, Butler said some punitive sanctions were still necessary.
“Mr. Fineman has been remarkable in his understanding and ability to, I guess, be forgiving of this senseless event, and I applaud him for that,” Butler said. “But I can’t base a sentence on whether a victim happens to be a forgiving person or not a forgiving person.”