NYPD Opens Hate-Crime Probe After Chabad HQ Ramming (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: A driver repeatedly rammed into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, prompting the NYPD to open a hate crime investigation. The driver was quickly arrested and no injuries were reported, according to police. The Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters was established in 1940 and is one of the most well-known Jewish buildings in the world. Shortly before 9pm, a grey Honda sedan entered the driveway of the building and crashed into the doorway several times, a law enforcement official told CNN. Images of the scene show one of the doors was rammed off its hinges. The suspect yelled to a person in the crowd it slipped, before being arrested by two officers. The driver, who has not been identified, has been cooperating with police and told officers it was not an attack, law enforcement officials said. Yakov Berman, head of PR at the headquarters, told CNN that the suspect had interacted with a group of rabbinical students roughly an hour before the ramming, when he asked them when a Hasidic gathering was happening. New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani said at a news conference, Anti-Semitism has no place in our city. Police have said they will increase security at places of worship in the city.