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Los Angeles police have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with a shocking assault on a group of Jewish diners that was caught on video earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Xavier Pabon, of Banning, Calif., was arrested late Friday with the assistance of the US Marshal Service task force at a home outside Los Angeles. He was initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon and initial bail was set at $275,000. The LAPD said it had requested enhanced bail “due to the crime being motivated by hatred.”<\/p>\n
Investigators believe Pabon was part of a group that pulled up to Sushi Fumi restaurant in the Beverly Grove section of Los Angeles at around 10 p.m. Tuesday. Witnesses said the group began to shout anti-Semitic slurs and throw bottles at diners. <\/p>\n
“Somebody in one of the cars driving by started throwing glass bottles or glass cups at the tables and they shattered everywhere,” one woman told CBSLA, adding that a group of about 30 charged the tables and began asking, “Who’s Jewish?”<\/p>\n
A male photographer, who said he was planning a wedding with several Jewish men and was attacked when he tried to defend the group he was with, described the violence as “a hate crime.”<\/p>\n
“It was prepared,” he told CBSLA, adding, “they came to fight with Jewish people.”<\/p>\n
Officials did not specify Pabon’s alleged role in the attack and did not say what weapon he was accused of using. <\/p>\n
The LAPD credited tips from the public with assisting in the identification of Pabon and added that they were working to nab the other suspects in the assault. <\/p>\n
The violence came amid a surge in anti-semitic incidents sparked by the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, which ended in a ceasefire Friday. On Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center on Extremism reported 193 potential hate crimes in the week after the fighting began May 10, compared to 131 the week before. <\/p>\n
The ADL also recorded more than 17,000 tweets sent between May 7 and May 14 that used a variation of the phrase “Hitler was right.”<\/p>\n