Harvard researcher beaten to a pulp after asking gang of teens to keep quiet during screening at AMC movie theater

UK Daily Mail ^ | August 19, 2025 | Martha Williams

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

He should pay them for helping him with his field work.

[blackdog]

I live in Memphis. I stopped going to movie theater venues in 2012. I'm not stupid.

I apply the Amish society rule, to shun the community members I am forced to coexist with. I make no eye contact. I do not conduct my business in places they exist. It can be done with very little inconvenience.

You are responsible for your own personal safety. Make your planned activities and choices accordingly.

[TheDon]

“For a Harvard researcher, he certainly isnt too bright.”

His Papa never had the “Talk” with him.

[Windcatcher]

White liberals always think everyone thinks on their level. They’re incapable of comprehending barbarism.

[dfwgator]

White liberals always think everyone thinks on their level. They’re incapable of comprehending barbarism.

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“Wait ‘til Otis sees us...He loved us!”

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

He was hit and treated horribly at a horror film. Horrendous!

Does his Harvard research include horror?

[Bullish]

How in the world did he not know better than to tell his better’s to shush? After all, it’s the world Harvard folks have made for themselves.

[Zack Attack]

Another mountain out of a molehill. No need to involve police.

I encourage these young men to accept the Harvard professors’ apology for violating their free speech rights and let it go.

[frank ballenger]

loudly clapped and screamed throughout the screening, ruining the experience for everyone

I can't really estimate when this trend started in theaters. Probably 1980s.

Long enough for all to learn : No, you don't challenge the offenders. You don't criticize. You don't act surprised when they follow you outside in the dark.

That goes for any and all races.

[frank ballenger]

Ha.

Maybe carry some $20 fast food gift cards to hand out to them.

[frank ballenger]

This can go in the discussion I saw recently on a news show: How come theater attendance is still on the wane? One said too many sequels. No, the problem is the people.

[Rummyfan]

A couple of years ago a golf buddy mentioned he’d seen OPPENHEIMER. Another buddy asked ‘were there a lot of Canadians’ in the theater. WTF I thought… Canadians in suburban Maryland in the summer? And how would one know they were Canadian?! Took me a while to figure it out…

[Rummyfan]

A Harvard researcher was brutally attacked by a gang of teenagers at a Boston movie theater after he told them to be quiet during a screening. Thiago Rentz….

Wonder if he’s a conservative now.

[Rummyfan]

Last time I was in a theater was for TOP GUN: MAVERICK. I certainly would not attend any midnight showings in an urban area.

[Does so]

We don’t have a racial problem...

We have a problem r...

[Rummyfan]

Primitive cultures….

[Rummyfan]

And poor Fawn Liebowitz….

[dfwgator]

“Do you mind if we dance wif yo dates?”

[metmom]

Yeah, there is.

The usual suspects.

“He described the suspects as skinny black men in hoodies wearing all-black clothes, according to the police statement.

‘I want the attackers to be identified because they need to be punished,’ he told NBC Boston.

Rentz added that he has heard nothing from AMC since the incident. “

[kiryandil]

He forgot to bring his street sweeper.