Gang of White Men [more than 12] Attack Black College Student in Brooklyn - Victim Left for Dead with Broken Eye Socket
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White Supremacy = the Ultimate KO Game. White supremacy is conducted through violence and/or deception [MORE]. From [HERE] and [HERE] Police are investigating after a Black man was assaulted by a mob of more than a dozen white men in Brooklyn, leaving him with a broken eye socket and a torn retina.
The 22-year-old victim, Taj Patterson says he was out with friends in Williamsburg Dec. 1 when a group of 15 to 20 men he described as Hasidic Jews wearing religious garb approached him.
"They came up behind me, they grabbed me, they punched me in the face, kicked me down, knocked me out," Patterson told NBC 4 New York.
Patterson says that during the beating, the men yelled anti-gay slurs, including, "Stay down, f----t!”
"I’m walking down some block by myself and then the next thing I know, I’m surrounded by a group of Hasidic Jewish men and they’re attacking me,” Patterson tells the Daily News. “I was alone. I was an easy target. I’m black. I’m gay, a whole slew of reasons."
Patterson's mother, Zahra Patterson, said "it wasn't until someone stopped them — the witnesses, a Bus driver, otherwise, my son would have been left for dead."
Patterson, a student at the New York City College of Technology, was taken to Woodhull Hospital, where he was treated for a broken eye socket, a torn retina, bruises and blood clotting. No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing. He's expected to have additional surgeries in two weeks to reattach the damaged retina.
Patterson said he had been drinking on a party bus with friends before the assault on Flushing Avenue in the heavily Orthodox section of Williamsburg, but has no idea why he was beat up.
"I want these people to know they can't put their hands on anyone and get away with it, and think just because you have on certain attire you can get away with certain things. We're all equal here."
The NYPD says the hate crimes unit is investigating. Patterson was drunk the night of the assault, and it took several days to piece together the facts, they say.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a white man who represents the Borough Park section of Brooklyn but is a vocal advocate for Hasidic Jews across the borough, said "something obviously happened" to Patterson, but the allegation was "bizarre."
It "sounds so out of character," Hikind said. [that is pure comedy!]
Zahra Patterson said four witnesses have told police what happened, including the driver of a bus who jumped in to stop the assault.
"It's shocking," said Zahra Patterson. "It saddened me to even know that this level of hate exists so close to home, that a group could be so angry about whatever."
