Queens man breaks leg in Harlem attack, claims to be victim of the 'knockout game'

The New York Daily News ^ | December 15, 2013 | Barry Paddock and Thomas Tracy

[2ndDivisionVet]

A Queens man broke his leg Thursday in a horrific, unprovoked daytime attack similar to a “knockout game” strike, the Daily News has learned.

Clifford Wong, 52, was leaving his job at a New York Lottery office in Harlem and was nearing his car on W. 126th St. near Lenox Ave. at about 2:30 p.m. when he saw a group of black teens watching him.

“Something didn’t feel right so I crossed the street,” he said. “I took a few steps and in an instant one guy was in front of me.”

“Where do you think you’re going?” the suspect — believed to be about 15 — asked before he and several of his pals started lobbing haymakers at him.

“Basically they were trying to aim at my face,” said Wong in an interview at Harlem Hospital Saturday. “I had my hands up, but they hit my nose.”

The goons pummeled Wong until he fell to the ground and then ran off.

Paramedics rushed Wong to Harlem Hospital with cuts, scrapes and multiple leg fractures he sustained in the fall.

“I was on the ground when the ambulance came,” Wong recalled. “They tried to get me off the ground and that’s when I realized there were some big problems with my knee.”(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Then they got in their horse-drawn wagon and went back to the quilting bee.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

[Gay State Conservative]

I think one or two Bernie Goetz responses might put a halt to this fun pastime.

[BenLurkin]

Shouldn’t this read “His leg was broken” and NOT “he broke his leg?”

[TomGuy]

... a group of black teens watching him ... “Something didn’t feel right so I crossed the street,”

Recall when Obama said, rather critically of his maternal grandmother, the one who basically raised him, that she did essentially the same thing for essentially the same reason?

[BenLurkin]

I love that!

(but there is a typo in there)

[livius]

Exactly. This makes it sound like he was the attacker.

[Bogey78O]

The headline and story is read almost as if they believe it to be a hoax.

[Zhang Fei]

Elections have consequences. New Yorkers brought this on themselves. I bet the vic voted for Obama.

[Jonty30]

Only if he had something to do with breaking his leg, but if those quilting bee youths had anything to do with it, it’s probably more accurate to say that his leg was broken.

[FreeAtlanta]

It was poorly written. It took more effort to understand what was being written than necessary.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Of course! He identified his assailants as black! That can’t be tolerated!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Can’t be true because the LSM won’t cover it.

[BCrago66]

This is first time that I’ve seen a “mainstream” outlet in the US - in the first story, right off the bat - acknowledged in print the race of the perpetrators of a knockout attack. So I guess that’s progress, journalistically.

A more substantially form of progress will occur when those who aren’t rich enough to have bodyguards or who aren’t friends of Bloomberg/de Blasio enjoy the right to bear arms in New York City, and are thus able to effectively respond to, and deter future, knockout attacks.

[struggle]

What they did to him was so wong.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly! What an insult.

Compare it to describing a woman who was raped, as having raped herself.

His leg was broken as a result of a brutal physical attack.

Mustn’t build up too much animus against the people doing this...

Makes my blood boil.

[The Cajun]

Then they got in their horse-drawn wagon and went back to the quilting bee.

LOL, you're sharp today.

[deoetdoctrinae]

Well, we can't all be accompished spellers.

☺

[Disambiguator]

What they did to him was so wong.

He was in the wong place at the wong time.

[Venturer]

Black people wonder why whites look at them funny when meeting them on the street.

Here’s why Leroy