Black fashion student says Hasidic men attacked him, shouted anti-gay slurs in Williamsburg

NYDailyNews ^ | Will Huntsberry , Averi Harper AND Corinne Lestch

[Morgana]

A black fashion student says he was brutally attacked by a gang of Hasidic men who shouted anti-gay slurs at him while he was walking through Williamsburg after a night of partying, the Daily News has learned.

Taj Patterson, 22, was headed home to Fort Greene around 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 1 when he says more than a dozen ultra-Orthodox Jewish men began assaulting him on Flushing Ave. and yelling, “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 said. “I was alone. I was an easy target. I’m black. I’m gay, a whole slew of reasons.”

The New York City College of Technology student left for a fun night out with friends, and returned with a broken eye socket, a torn retina, blood clotting, and cuts and bruises to his knee and ankles.

[maddog55]

Exactly.. more liberal contrived hate crimes.

[silverleaf]

oh no, a reverse intifada by violent Jews
The WH will be all over this!

I bet they even ripped his pantyhose

[MrB]

I wonder if he was dressed “fabulous”...

[pgkdan]

I call B.S. as loudly as I possibly can!!!!

[Morgana]

Tawana Brawley 2.0

This is the computer age after all.

[fieldmarshaldj]

These publications are getting ridiculous elevating such words to the level of the REAL F word.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Everyone should know these statistics on homosexuals

[dsrtsage]

I knew sooner or later that these roving bands of Hasidic Jews were going to cause trouble. If they are not careful, people may begin to randomly assault Jews world wide for no apparent reason.

[PghBaldy]

I live in a “diverse” area that has gays and Orthodox Jews living together. This seems bogus, but what do I know?

[getitright]

hey wait- since when do we reveal the race/religion of the perps? did I miss an rules announcement?

[pallis]

...another lying Democrat.

[Navy Patriot]

Yeah, right.

Gay victim fraud.

False Wittiness.

[SECURE AMERICA]

How did they know you were a homosexual?

[immadashell]

How did he know they were Hasidic Jews and not Amish tourists?..................

it's because Amish tourists are only allowed out between three and four o'clock in the morning.

[Tax-chick]

At 4:30 a.m.? Yeah, right.

He made it up, just like all the others.

[arthurus]

Or the fellows who did the job on him made it up and presented it for his required use if he preferred it not to happen again.

[lowbridge]

Time for obama to start erecting walls around jewish neighborhoods. This is the excuse he has been looking for.

[newnhdad]

this sounds fake..

[Tax-chick]

That’s a possibility, but it sounds like he was pretty wasted. I don’t think I’d remember the cover story if I was smashed *and* beaten up.

Maybe it was his ex-boyfriend and the ex-boyfriend’s new boyfriend.

[Mr. K]

So.. no witnesses except the drunk homo?

And this makes the news?