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TENSION IN CROWN HTS.

By JOHN DOYLE and TODD VENEZIA

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May 17, 2008

Crown Heights erupted in anger yesterday as nearly 300 people marched in protest after a 16-year-old Jewish teen was beaten and robbed in the early morning.

Police have made no arrests but have not ruled the attack a hate crime, which has angered members of the Jewish community.

The mugging has raised racial tensions in the Jewish and African-American community that have simmered since the racial turmoil of the early 1990s.

The attack and march came on the same day cops released a photo and asked for the public's help in the capture of a Jewish man, Yitzhak Shuchat, 25, who has been named a suspect in the April attack on 20-year-old Andrew Charles, a black college student who is the son of a police officer.

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