New York City police said they arrested and charged a former Obama administration official Wednesday after videos surfaced showing a man making anti-Islamic insults to a food cart worker.

Authorities said Stuart Seldowitz, 64, who served as the National Security Council chief for former President Barack Obama, was charged with aggravated harassment and multiple counts of stalking. One of the stalking charges is considered a hate crime. 

Mr. Seldowtiz was taken into custody in connection to a series of videos where he is accused of making anti-Muslim statements while berating a 24-year-old food cart vendor in the Upper East Side.

One video shows the man saying the vendor supports the Hamas terrorist group and that he “prays to a criminal,” referring to the Prophet Muhammad.

“But you’re a terrorist. You support terrorism,” the man says in the video. “You’re killing little children.”

“You kill children, not me,” the food cart vendor responds.

“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what? It wasn’t enough,” the man says back.

In another video, the man asks the vendor is he raped his daughter “like Mohammed” did.

Mr. Seldowitz told WNBC in New York that the incidents were precipitated by the vendor telling him he’s Egyptian and supports Hamas.

“I said, ‘You’re okay with the raping of women, the killing of children, the taking of hostages and the killing of 1,200 people in Israel?’ And he said ‘Yes, it was all for Palestine.’ And that’s what got me upset,” Mr. Seldowitz told the station.

A different worker who helps run the food cart told WNBC that Mr. Seldowitz got into the first confrontation on Nov. 7, and had returned another three times after that.