Williamsburg, NY - Dad Apologizes for Hate Son

Williamsburg, NY - An apologetic New Jersey dad whose troublemaker son threatened to shoot a Hasidic shopkeeper in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, insisted that his wayward offspring is mentally ill and not an anti-Semite. “I don’t want people to think it’s a hate crime. It’s a drunk thing,” said distraught dad Ben Kircher Sr., 58. “He’s not that kind of person when he’s not drinking,” he said of his estranged son, Ben Jr., 28.