New York — The man who Randomly hit a woman He was convicted walking down a Manhattan street nearly two years ago on hate crime charges for that assault and several others.
A New York state court judge on Wednesday convicted Skipocki Stora of assaulting, stalking and harassing strangers in what prosecutors described as a series of misogynistic, anti-white and anti-Semitic incidents between 2023 and 2024.
The 42-year-old Brooklyn resident represented himself during the weeks-long trial in a Manhattan court.
“I never did anything racist toward anyone, I never did anything discriminatory toward anyone, and I never tried to hurt anyone,” he said in his closing statements to the New York Post. Reports.
However, prosecutors showed a video of Stora harassing a Jewish couple, as well as videos he recorded of himself screaming and harassing white people, according to the newspaper.
“The victims were met with violence and harassment simply because of who they were,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement after the conviction. “Hate crimes strike at the core of our city’s values and sense of safety.”
Stora was remanded in custody and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 14.
Messages left on his Instagram account, where he claims to be the “great-grandson” of black nationalist Marcus Garvey and is running for governor as a Republican, were not immediately responded to.
The March 25, 2024, assault on a then 23-year-old woman attracted widespread attention after the victim posted about it on TikTok and several other people described similar attacks.
Stora’s punch knocked the woman to the ground and caused pain and swelling on the left side of her head, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said that months earlier, Stora elbowed a 17-year-old student in the neck and said, “You people think you can do whatever you want,” using an expletive.
He also elbowed a 37-year-old woman in the shoulder, causing bruises, in another incident, and then harassed a couple who filmed him tearing down posters of Israeli hostages.
Stora followed the husband and wife, shouting anti-white and anti-Semitic threats and insults, including “Die, Jews, die!” According to prosecutors.