What? An attack takes place on a public street, and the police won't investigate unless the person who was attacked files a report? What if he'd been murdered, and COULDN'T file a report?
They'd put it on TV.
In fairness to the local police, I have to think the reporter messed that line up.
Unlike poor journalist Bob Woodward who was brain injured in Iraq; had military doctors who were not afraid of being sued, and who opened his skull to allow his brain to swell outside the skull, thereby sparing million of neurons from dying, this poor man is going to suffer for a long time.
I hope someone gets a Personal Injuries Attorney for him to get him the medical attention he will need (so many in the medical field are so IGNORANT about Brain Injuries) and take care of many details for him and his family.