What do you get when you cross the age-old Israel-Palestine conflict with the clichéd "Florida man" trope? A bizarre story about violence and bloodshed, of course.
27-year-old Mordechai Brafman was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder after he shot and injured a father and son because he thought they were Palestinians.
From Yahoo! News:
Around 9:30 p.m., surveillance video captured Brafman's truck traveling south on Pine Tree Drive and making a U-turn at 48th Street, where the victims' vehicle was stopped just north of 48th in the left lane.
At that point, Brafman drove by and stopped directly in front of them in the right lane, where he left his vehicle and shot at the victims' vehicle '17 times, unprovoked, striking both victims' as they passed him, arrest documents said.
The most ironic part? The victims — Ari Rabi and his father — are Jewish. Like actual Jewish Israelis. From Israel.
'Boom, boom, boom, boom. I got hit in the shoulder. One of the bullets missed my father's head,' Rabi said through his cousin, who served as an interpreter.
According to Rabi, neither he nor his father knew Brafman prior to the incident. Rabi clarified that they're not Palestinian.
If you're wondering, yes, the pro-Hamas wokies are already making jokes.
The State's Attorney's Office is now pursuing hate crime charges against Brafman.
Both victims are recovering.
Tone down the crazy a little bit, Florida man!
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