Police in New York avoid charging Pakistanis with anti-white hate crime

Kerry Burke:

The pack of thugs who mugged and fatally beat a New Jersey man outside a Chelsea nightclub had robbed before, police sources said yesterday.

"Get that white m----------r!" one of the attackers shouted before three of them surrounded Thomas Whitney Jr., 24, and threw the first punch, according to two women who saw the beating.

Najib Noor, 19, punched Whitney in the head while Daryush Omar, 20, and Walliullah Hashimi, 22, kicked him as he lay bleeding on W. 19th St., not far from the Spy Club, where Whitney had been partying, prosecutors said.

The trio then flipped the financial analyst over so they could rummage through his pockets and steal his wallet and cell phone, authorities said.

"They traveled in a pack and they beat and robbed people. They went looking for a victim and they found one. They were out to do a robbery. They had done it before," a police source said.

Police said they didn't charge the three with a hate crime because the comment was seen as a way to identify a drunken mark, rather than a racial slur, police sources said. Omar and Noor are natives of Pakistan and Hashimi of Afghanistan.

They were arraigned on murder and robbery charges in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday and held without bail.

Another suspect, Jaweed Farhadi, told cops the crew had spent the night at the Avalon club on W. 20th St. Police initially thought the suspects had encountered Whitney at the Spy Club. Farhadi and two others were charged with criminal possession of stolen property.

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