Cops Tried To Memory-Hole Hasidic Jews' Beating Of Black Man In Williamsburg
Police seem to have tried to deep-six an investigation into the brutal beatdown of a gay black man in Williamsburg, allegedly by Hasidic Jewish neighborhood watch members, and only reopened the case after the victim's mother made a fuss in the media. The Daily News reports that within a day of the December 2013 attack on then-fashion student Taj Patterson that left him with a broken eye socket and blind in one eye, the NYPD had marked the case a misdemeanor assault and labeled the case closed, with no arrests made.
Patterson was walking home along Flushing Avenue early in the morning when a group of men pounced on him, according to prosecutors. Five men accused him of damaging cars in the area and surrounded him, then were joined by another 10 people, and when Patterson tried to flee, they held him down and kicked and punched him, prosecutors allege.
The pummeling only ceased when a bus driver pulled over and started to take photos.
"That wasnt a misdemeanor," the driver told the News.
He continued:
"They were actually stomping and kicking him. One of his eyes was closed and so swollen. He was saying, 'My eye. I cant see.'"
Somehow, the initial police report only mentioned one attacker, and called Patterson, "highly intoxicated, uncooperative and incoherent," according to the tabloid.
The NYPD wouldn't discuss the News's findings.
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