More Details Emerge About Park Slope Train Stabbing

Emil Benjamin / Via The Daily News

This past Monday there was a stabbing on a train in Park Slope. The details were vague at first -- was the man 29 or 30? Was it a G or an F train? What prompted the attack? -- but have since come together to paint a pretty fucked up picture.

30 year-old Emil Benjamin and his brother were on an F train around 9:40PM when two men approached and started hurling anti-Semitic slurs at them.

"They said, 'You're nobody, you Jewish bastard,' " Benjamin told the Daily News. 

The men then jumped Benjamin, and the pummeling spilled from the train onto the platform once the train stopped at the 4th ave/9th street station. Benjamin landed a good punch on one of the guys, at which time they fled. That's when he realized he'd been stabbed.

"I felt blood gushing out of my back and my left leg," Benjamin said. "It was sizzling hot, like a hot shower. My blue jeans were red. My sneakers were soaked with blood." 

Benjamin was rushed to the hospital, and the suspects, 22 year-old Rafael Padin and 18 year-old Jose Santos, were busted near the scene of the attack. 

The police aren't investigating the incident as a hate crime, which I find a little odd. The attacker called Benjamin a "Jewish bastard," then stabbed him. But hey, I went to film school, not law school. So tell me what you guys think: hate crime or not?