Posted on 12/10/2013 1:05:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the alleged beating of a 22-year-old fashion student at the hands of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish mob. Taj Patterson, 22, was walking home from a party through the predominantly ultra-Orthodox section of South Williamsburg when he says a group of at least twenty Jewish men attacked him. 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." The assault occurred in the wake of a number of seemingly unprovoked assaults on Jews in Brooklyn. In November, hate crime charges were filed against a suspect who allegedly attacked a Jewish man in Borough Park without provocation.
In an interview with NBC New York, Patterson said his assailants "came up behind me, they grabbed me, they punched me in the face, kicked me down, knocked me out." The assault, which occurred on Flushing Avenue near Spencer Street, was stopped by an MTA bus driver who pulled over and intervened. "I get out of the bus and all these men were standing up straight around him,” bus driver Evelyn Keys tells the News. "Taj is laying down on his back. I went up to him and he was in so much pain. He says, ‘I can’t see . . . I can’t breathe."
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. (According to the police report, Patterson was highly intoxicated, and the Post reports that he couldn't make a coherent statement that morning.)
Assemblymen Dov Hikind, who has repeatedly condemned the so-called "knockout game" attacks on his Jewish constituents, concedes that "something obviously happened" to Patterson, but tells NBC New York the assault "sounds so out of character" for ultra-Orthodox Jews.
It looks suspicious to me. He did get beaten, but he says by Jews who were beating him because he is gay. I have never heard of Jews beating someone because they were gay. If he claimed that they beat him in retaliation for black attacks on Jews, I would believe it much more. For now I will wait and see what comes out.
Yeah B/S for sure. There is no way this clown is gonna admit to getting whipped by any Jewish guy, or guys. If he did he would be in line for a worse beating from his fellow savages in ‘da hood for lettin’ it happen. More like one of his baby mommas wanted more dough for her crack habit, he said no and POW!!
I smell a rat(s).
Did the bus driver call an ambulance to the site? Any other witnesses? Anything on surveillance videos? If it is just his word and the bus driver’s (who knows him on a first-name basis), then I think it is bogus.
Yeah, I'd sooner think he was attacked by a gang of Amish boys.
Almost certainly bogus
It may not be bogus, but the question is what was he really up to?
“Don’t know but Hasidic Jewish men are hardly known for their violent tendencies.”
I’d like you to know, I sent a disapproving glance at some teenagers today. Very forceful.
That's right, Taj, exactly who Black folks assault -- easy targets.
“I smell a rat(s).”
I smell Tawana Brawley 2.0
Assuming it’s true: Too bad, so sad, can someone please sell me a feeling.
Assuming it’s false: He did it to himself, can someone please sell me a feeling.
The image of gangs of Hasidic men hanging on the streets, just looking for trouble is farcical. Its like something from an old Woody Allen movie.
You have not heard the last of this story yet....
Maybe he fell down and the Hasidim were trying to help him up.
“I have never heard of Jews beating someone because they were gay.”
Well, there was the whole Chanukah, Maccabee revolution thing.
Does Patterson work at an Asian restaurant as a waiter?
Only imagine what would have happened if you had frowned as well. They might have never recovered.
Patterson actually states that he is homosexual in a quote within the article. The question is, how would the Jewish guys have known?
Look for the lefthanded ho! ho! ho!
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