A small protest outside a Brooklyn synagogue turned heated Monday when an enraged assemblyman burst through a police barrier and screeched "You're a whore!" at a demonstrator.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind lunged at members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a fringe group known for inflammatory anti-gay and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
He ran from a counter-protest section outside Chabad Lubavitch of Kensington and charged at the small pen holding the five Westboro members demonstrating outside the synagogue.
Hikind screamed "You're a whore!" at Westboro member Shirley Phelps and warned her, "Just be careful the rest of your day in Brooklyn."
Police pulled him away but did not arrest him.
Westboro also brought its message to a Midwood yeshiva, and later, a gay and lesbian support group in lower Manhattan.
Hikind said he was incited by a vulgar sign waved by Phelps that said "Thank God for dead soldiers," a reference to the group's belief that soldiers die as punishment for America's tolerance of gay people.
"It was an emotional moment," Hikind said. "I just wanted to take that sign from her. They're a despicable group."
Phelps said Hikind "needs to get over himself."
She said she wouldn't press charges.
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