A postal worker from Rockland County has been taken into custody following an incident where he allegedly shoved a 4-year-old Jewish boy to the ground, an act that was captured on camera and has shocked the community.
Disturbing surveillance video shared by The Monsey Scoop shows the moment when the young boy approached a stationary mail truck. Without warning, the 39-year-old USPS employee turned and forcefully pushed the child onto the sidewalk in a neighborhood in Ramapo on Thursday evening.
After the child was knocked down, the postal worker returned to his vehicle. Meanwhile, the little boy, who was knocked flat, stood up, retrieved his yarmulke that had been knocked off, and then walked away, as seen in the footage.
Witnesses reported that the mailman was yelling at a group of nearby children before the incident occurred.
According to Ramapo police, the suspect, a man from Stony Point, was arrested on Friday. He faces charges of child endangerment and third-degree attempted assault, both classified as misdemeanors.
The incident has drawn strong reactions from community leaders in the largely Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish area, who denounced the attack on the child and expressed gratitude to law enforcement for their prompt response.
“I have viewed the video depicting an incident involving a physical attack on a small child,” Ramapo Town Supervisor Michael Specht wrote on X Friday afternoon.
“The content of this video is very disturbing. Ramapo Police have treated this matter with extreme seriousness and have now arrested the suspect.”
State Assemblyman Aron Wieder called the incident “appalling and deeply troubling.”
State Senator Bill Weber also called for the USPS worker to face the harshest legal consequences.
“I’ve heard from constituents who are deeply alarmed by the assault of a young child in the @TownOfRamapo. I share their concern and outrage,” he wrote on X after the irate man was arrested.
“He must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!”
The heartless suspect was released from custody and is due back in court at a later date, cops said.
The USPS did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
