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The NY Post has a follow-up to yesterday's story about a man in Williamsburg who found himself surrounded and detained by a group of two dozen Hasidics after going into a store and yelling at the shopkeeper that he "hated Jews" and that they "should all die." The paper released the name of the man, Ben Kircher, who was not arrested because no charges were pressed and spoke to his father, Ben Kircher Sr. His dad, who is estranged from the 28-year-old, says, "I don't want people to think it's a hate crime. It's a drunk thing. He's not that kind of person when he's not drinking,"

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