Posted on 09/07/2013 8:27:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Brooklyn resident Jeffrey Babbitt was left in a coma and clinically brain dead after being attacked in Union Square on Wednesday, according to a criminal complaint. The photograph was taken earlier this year by neighbor Robert Pizzimenti.
A Brooklyn man is in a coma in critical condition after he was assaulted by a man who threatened to "punch the first white man I see," authorities said Saturday.
Neighbors of the victim, Jeffrey Babbitt, 62, were in shock after learning of the Wednesday attack in Manhattan.
The Manhattan district attorney's office has charged Lashawn Marten, 31, of Manhattan, with second- and third-degree assault. Police are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime, an NYPD spokesman said.
Babbitt's doctors told police that he's clinically brain dead at Bellevue Hospital Center, according to the criminal complaint.
Marten is accused of punching Babbitt in the face at Union Square Park, causing him to fall to the sidewalk, hitting his head. Marten is black; Babbitt is white, police said.
Neighbors said Babbitt has lived with his ailing 94-year-old mother, Lucille, in a Sheepshead Bay co-op for nearly two decades.
"Everybody's broken up about this," said a neighbor, Audrey Feifer, 75. "If you had to go to the doctor or anywhere, he would take you."(continued)
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Yes they have
The epidemic of black on white crime continues to escalate, yet our so-called President remains silent.
“I don’t give a s*** how much crime it stops.”
Spoken like a true liberaltarian.
just what the hell does a black person have to do before they call it a hate crime.
Man, if you spit towards a black today some mamby pamby D.A. will say it is a hate crime.
Joe Louis Memorial “Sculpture”, isn’t it?
Possible hate crime charges? What did he do to provoke that poor, victimized, Black gentleman?
where is that from?
Remember, Jesse said that “blacks are incapable of racism. So, if that is the case, apparently they are incapable of “hate crimes” as well.
With Dante’s dad, things will get worse in NYC.
Leni
It’s Joe Louis’ fist and is prominently displayed in downtown Detroit.
The unionized Commies government workers eat at the banquet the private sector and strive day and night to kill the golden goose that feeds them.
Nope, dumb ass, spoken like a freedom loving American, one who believes in the constitution and the rule of law. People like you who think we should compromise our freedoms are the reason we are in such a bind today. In other words, you speak like a true liberal.
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