The NYPD is investigating the vicious beating of a black Brooklyn man who was assaulted by a group of whites. According to the New York Post, the 28-year-old black man was attacked last night in the parking lot of Brooklyn's Plumb Beach off Jamaica Bay.
Detectives say he was beaten, chased into traffic, hit by a car ... and then dragged off the road, only to be pummeled again. "Plumb Beach is known as a gay cruising spot and detectives were trying to determine if either race or sexual orientation was the motive for the attack, the sources said."
Police say the victim was found unconscious and rushed to hospital. Ironically, that Belt Parkway crime scene is only minutes away from the Howard Beach location where three bat-wielding white men chased and beat three black men in 1986. One of the victims was killed when he ran onto the Parkway and was run down by a passing motorist.
Thugs Beat B'klyn Man in Vicious Bias Bash (NYP)
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Thanks for the heads up. I'm new to this site and amazed at the number of stories that are reported here but not on other blogs. There is so much that we bl;ack gay men need to learn. Hopefully they will catch those crazy men.
Posted by: Henry TW | 09 October 2006 at 13:38
what is with nyc and blacks? it seems that this city is worse than any in the deep south with the out and out blantant racism. black folks can't catch a cab, get called names, a police beat down the other week and now another vicious beat down by a mob of twisted white losers, so much for life being so much better in the big apple.
Posted by: jared | 09 October 2006 at 14:12
New York City's white ethnic groups--Italians, Jews, Irish--have always bene very hostile to blacks. It's the same as in Boston or Chicago. Very uneasy history.
Posted by: rob | 09 October 2006 at 15:04
What is it that black men need to learn? That you can't walk by yourself at 9:30 at night in a NYC neighborhood? so sad...
Posted by: patrick | 09 October 2006 at 18:56
thanks for sharing this story. indeed, we still have a long way to go.
Posted by: rbmf | 09 October 2006 at 19:35
That are is very hostile to blacks. things haven't changed so much since Howard Beach.
Posted by: Ken Harper | 09 October 2006 at 21:29