New York Man Arrested After Telling Jewish Co-Worker She Was in ‘Gas Chamber’: Police
The 18-year-old victim was in a storage cooler when her male coworker allegedly shut the lights off and referenced a “gas chamber.”

Reuters/Joshua Lott
A New York man has been arrested and charged for allegedly telling a Jewish co-worker inside a store storage cooler that she was “in the gas chamber now” before hurling several anti-Semitic insults. William Sullivan, 21, was charged with aggravated harassment on Friday for the incident at Mother's Earth Storehouse in Ulster, New York earlier this month, authorities said. The 18-year-old Jewish woman, Sarah Shabanowitz, alleges she was working in the store’s cooler when Sullivan came into the doorway, shut off the lights, made an anti-Semitic remark and insulted her faith. “The way Mother Earth treated me was wrong. Not just Will, but management and the ownership. No one did anything to make me safe,” she wrote in a statement released Friday. “No one took this seriously. Instead, management ordered me to keep quiet. I will not be quiet. No one should be subjected to anti-Semitism or racism or sexism at work.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo also condemned the incident, noting that it’s just one of “a growing number of anti-Semitic activities.”
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