A man was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on Thursday for allegedly assaulting a 66-year-old woman while yelling anti-Semitic remarks at her, authorities said.
Jarrett Harris, 62, of Cambridge, was charged with a assault and battery with intent to intimidate and assault and battery of a person over the age of 60, said Elizabeth Vlock, spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney’s office.
He is due back in court Nov. 28, she said.
The woman told officers she was walking with a man near the intersection of Harvard and Inman streets shortly after 10:30 p.m. when the two allegedly saw Harris in front of a residence and struck up a conversation with him about the building’s architecture, Cambridge police said.
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When the woman and man said they had to leave and continued walking, Harris allegedly rushed up beside her and yelled, “Shut the [expletive] up, [expletive]!” He then pushed her up against a wall, put his first up against her throat, and yelled, “You [expletive] Jewish [expletive]!” according to police.
The woman was uninjured, police said, but both she and the man said they were shocked by Harris’s unprovoked behavior.
Harris was later found walking on Inman Street toward Massachusetts Avenue. When officers approached him, he allegedly told police, “I just wanted that [expletive] off my property!”
Harris was brought to the woman and the man, who identified him as the alleged assaulter, police said.
While being questioned by officers, police said Harris repeatedly yelled about three times, “She is a [expletive] Jewish [expletive] and I will say it again!”
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