'They beat the crap out of me’: NBC director attacked by mob doing Halloween dance in Midtown

New York Daily News ^ | October 15, 2019 | Mikey Light and Thomas Tracy

[Ciaphas Cain]

A gang of ghoulish bullies broke into a bizarre Halloween dance in front of a television director on his way to work, then pummeled the senior when he tried to walk around them, police said.

John Sullivan, 72, had just gotten off the train at Sixth Ave. near W. 43rd St. about 2:20 a.m. Monday and was heading to 30 Rockefeller Center when nine people in their early 20s suddenly blocked his path.

“They were circling around me, and they were pointing their fingers in my face. They’re dancing, and all of a sudden they’re punching me. They beat the crap out of me," Sullivan, a technical director for Plaza Productions, an NBCUniversal affiliate, told the Daily News.

The group made “boo” noises as if they were ghosts, Sullivan recalled.

“The first guy shoved me, then they just started punching,” the New Jersey native told The News. “It went in for about 30 seconds. I didn’t go down. I fought back.”

[Beagle8U]

White guys with MAGA caps!

[HarleyD]

Can’t arrest anyone these days since it’s racist.

[metmom]

And no surprises.

[Ann Archy]

Do I REALLY need to look to see if they are Obama’s SONS?

[Dixie Yooper]

Did he identify himself as an NBC Director to the youth group? That should be a get out of trouble free card in that situation, unless they don’t watch that channel...

[JohnnyP]

Owens Valley?

We spent many weekends car camping up there in the ‘80’s.

[JonPreston]

as if they were ghosts

More like spooks.

[StAnDeliver]

Bryant Park at 2:20 am to go to work. Uh huh.

What is a past-prime NBC Herr Director doing not taking a cab or Uber?

[jughandle]

He forgot to throw in the “Trump 2020!!” screams and “MAGA!” chants.

[ealgeone]

yuts?

[LouAvul]

Yo! Liberals! This is the world you've created! As you sit in your living room ingesting drugs/alcohol thinking you all sound intellectual, at the end of the day, you're just like every other stoned/drunken imbecile.

And an out-of-control culture is the result of your stupidity. What's worse is that it's going to get much, much worse.

[MrEdd]

He be all up in his white privilege, keeping the brothers down.

[VastRWCon]

John Sullivan, 72 Former democrat, has woke and is now a huge Trump supporter and 2nd amendment activist.

news at 11

[Tax-chick]

It’s the style of the New York Daily News.

[McCarthysGhost]

I hear the teens got bored and were just taking a break from their doing their homework.

[wintertime]

A modern “Clockwork Orange”.

[csvset]

It’s jovial because whitey didn’t die, see, it is a game, even old guys can do it. /s

[ml/nj]

when nine people in their early 20s suddenly blocked his path

Just plain folks.

ML/NJ

[Mr. K]

Now how does he feel about gun control?

[epluribus_2]

Solution: concealed carry.