A group of about 300 persons coming out of a synagogue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, about 1 a.m. today, turned into an angry street mob and attacked an automobile when its driver tried to disperse the crowd out of the car’s way in front of the synagogue, police reported. Detectives later dispersed the crowd and arrested a Jewish boy, Joel Weiss, 16, charging him with felonious assault on Detective Herman Behrens, during the incident.
The driver, Servino Lugo, pulled the car out of the throng and around the corner where he and his brother, Benitto, abandoned the automobile and dashed to the station house. They returned with detectives to find the crowd shattering the windows and lights with sticks and tearing off the convertible top. In the scuffle that followed, Benitto Lugo was struck in the arm with a bottle and Detective Behrens was kicked three times in the back, police said. Weiss was held for a court hearing.
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