Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Reader report: An assault on East 4th Street

Via the EVG inbox…

A man walking east on the south side of East 4th Street between First and Second Avenues at 3 this morning was brutally hit in the face so hard he was knocked to the ground by a person who was walking west.

The person who was assaulted is very large and it had to have been a vicious hit. No money was taken. It may have been a hate crime as the person had just left the Boiler Room, the gay bar near Second Avenue. The victim refuses to file a police report and the 9th Precinct does not take third-party reports.

And that is the only information the reader included…

3 comments:

  1. I wish people would report things like this. If the person gets away with it they may do it again. The next victim may not be a 'very large' person. They could hit the pavement and be seriously injured/killed. I get that someone leaving a gay bar may want to keep that private but violent types need to be stopped before something horrible happens.

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  2. I hope the person who was assaulted reads this. I was attacked in 3 hate crimes in one year. I became trapped in my apartment with depression and fear. A friend pointed me to the Anti Violence Project and they were a great help. Call their 24 hour hotline, 212-714-1141.

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  3. Any chance we'll get a description of the perpetrator? Can understand the police not being able to follow up without proper charges filed, but would be helpful for neighbors or the bar staff to have and be on the lookout.

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