This one mystified even hardened police officers.
A suit-type dad (above, crumpled onto the sidewalk) was blithely walking his two pre-K kids to school on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights this morning when a buff youngish guy swooped out of nowhere and coldcocked him -- not once, but twice. Pedestrians screamed for the cops and the rapid response of the 84th Precinct was commendable, says everyone involved.
The alleged perp (wearing a blue T-shirt stating "I Eat 'Em Raw") was apprehended on Court Street, 
cuffed and spirited away in a police car, but no one seems to know why he did it, including the injured dad, who was taken to Long Island College Hospital with facial injuries and breathing problems.UPDATE: The Brooklyn Eagle ID's the Blue T-Shirt Guy as Brian Land of Pacific Street, and provides eye-witness accounts of the incident.
Photos by MK Metz
Equinox health club right there; maybe the steroids got a little outa hand.
ReplyDeleteWhat an asshole. In front of the dude's kids? For no reason? And a sucker punch at that?
ReplyDeleteProbably won't even get jail time, although he deserves to get gang raped in prison.
I was there when it happened. So freaky. The poor kids were right there watching.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a hired hit... or maybe I've been reading too many Lee Child novels.
ReplyDeleteI don't really think he deserves to be gang raped in prison...Jesus Christ. I mean the guys dumb, but c'mon. Maybe a scorned lover, scorned hook-up....
ReplyDeleteBrian Land on Pacific... Anybody know this guy? If so, ask him: "WTF?"
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