Black fashion student says Hasidic men attacked him, shouted anti-gay slurs in Williamsburg

NYDailyNews ^ | Will Huntsberry , Averi Harper AND Corinne Lestch

[Morgana]

A black fashion student says he was brutally attacked by a gang of Hasidic men who shouted anti-gay slurs at him while he was walking through Williamsburg after a night of partying, the Daily News has learned.

Taj Patterson, 22, was headed home to Fort Greene around 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 1 when he says more than a dozen ultra-Orthodox Jewish men began assaulting him on Flushing Ave. and yelling, “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 said. “I was alone. I was an easy target. I’m black. I’m gay, a whole slew of reasons.”

The New York City College of Technology student left for a fun night out with friends, and returned with a broken eye socket, a torn retina, blood clotting, and cuts and bruises to his knee and ankles.

[StraysDaddy]

Probably bogus, but even if it isn’t it should keep the riff raff out of their neighborhoods! They just lit a back fire to stop the wildfire!

[OldNewYork]

You’re right - it might. It also might convince part of the black community that they shouldn’t really care if Jews are targeted in attacks. Whether it’s true or not, I don’t really know, only that it could be, from what I’ve seen of New York.