Hanukkah Thugs Have History of Hateful, Violent Behavior

Joseph Jirovec and Kimberly Babajko are two of ten people arrested in an attack that was initiated by a friendly greeting of "Happy Channukah!" aboard a Q train in Brooklyn last week. Both Jirovec and Babajko have criminal records for assaulting minorities and could face hate crime charges in their latest brush with justice. Both are scheduled to appear in Brooklyn Criminal Court today for the vicious beating they allegedly administered to Walter Adler, who was on his way home from a holiday dinner. Adler and his girlfriend were spared further injury when a complete stranger, Hassan Askari, intervened at his own physical expense. The young Muslim man was beaten alongside Adler.

Jirovec, who is the son of a city firefighter currently serving in the military in Iraq, was already on probation after being sentenced in 2006 for pleading guilty to assaulting two black men. His girlfriend, Kim Babajko, was arrested in early September for an attack on two livery cab drivers. It's likely that felony hate crime charges will result in serious jail time for the prior incidents, in addition to whatever sentences they accrue for last week's attack. A third member of the group, Zachary Rogalski, has also been charged in the past for an assault against black men.

Hassan Askari was honored for his act of heroism this week and received a check for $5,000 from lawyer Benjamin Brafman. Askari currently works two jobs as a waiter to pay his way through Berkley College in New York, where he is studying accounting. Rap impressario Russell Simmons was at the benefit dinner for the Center for Ethnic Understanding and had high praise for Askari. "'What you want for yourself is what you give to others. The idea is one that is central to all prophets, all Jews, all Muslims."

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By Dave Hogarty in News on December 14, 2007 3:01 PM

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The Edge

The irony in that picture just goes to show how "racist" they think they are.

Elderta

Touché, Moneda... I was thinking the same thing.

As these assholes, I hope they have a fun time in jail. That should be an interesting experience for them. What idiots. All the best to Askari. Really, we need more folks like him in the world.

moneda

Why does it matter what ethnicity they are?

You must be new here...

Streamwise

Its certainly funny how these Slavic idiots think that emulating American white trash is somehow cool. We should deport them to Lawton Oklahoma with a few hundred grams of meth and see what happens....

Albert Sharpton

The muslim dude should of just exploded himself, and killed off these mofos.

freddyhere

Where's Donald Trump's 10G check...

halik007

Jirovec is a czech name, Babajko either Ukrainian or Russian

Czech ->

ed_Extinct

They're Czech. Eastern Europeans are notoriously known for their hatred towards Jews, Muslims and Russians.

Life in jail wouldn't be long enough for these two schmucks!

Spirit of 76

Askari shows the true spirit of Islam, unlike the radical fundamentalists who get all the attention. It's scary that one of those punks wants to get into the military. Don't we have a bad enough reputation overseas?

JacqueMehoff

what ethnicity are they?

the girls in the group are cute, not the dana plato lookalike but the others who were involved.

one sort of looks like ellen pompeo.

natis

Throw them in jail, give them three meals a day of wonder bread and cheese and throw away the key.

ChampionOfTheSun

That's cool that someone gave that guy a $5000 check. But, it would have been nice if the city gave him something too, to encourage other people to step up.

JMH

Because I'm curious. Is it supposed to be a secret or something?
I just don't see how it's relevant or useful information. All it does is lead to people saying things like "stupid polaks," which would have been an unfair generalization even if these guys WERE Polish.

matty

They're serbian. And they were probably scared the jewish couple were going to grow horns and take all their money.

CR

Sorry, *two* generations ago.

CR

Hey, a generation ago these two probably would have been guards at a Nazi death camp.

jibbly

What a shame that Jirovec's dad used to put his life in mortal danger to save people from burning buildings regardless of their race, religion, or creed. How unfortunate that his kid turned out to be such a rotten apple.

Amanda Harletsch

They are fucked in the head regardless

HughGass

"Why does it matter what ethnicity they are?"

Because I'm curious. Is it supposed to be a secret or something?

Joclyn

Aren't they also all around 19 years old? With priors? Please, put this filth away for good.

JMH

Why does it matter what ethnicity they are?

halftime

Albos

chuzzlewit

it's white trash.

Tgirl

the stupid part still applies

HughGass

Jirovec, Babajko - what ethnicity is that?

JRod5417

nonumentalart- Those are not Polish names so please keep your stupid insults to yourself.

nonumentalart

stupid polaks

Tgirl

meatheads

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"What you want for yourself is what you give to others..." Not a good idea for me, as what I really want is a good spanking. But yeah, good for Askari.