Four men arrested on bias attack against gay black man

NYC Crime

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 11:44 AM

Updated: Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 12:01 PM

Taj Patterson was assaulted last December in Williamsburg as he headed home following a night out.

Four Hasidic men have been arrested for a disturbing bias attack against a gay black man, the Daily News has learned.

The suspects, at least two of whom had fled to Israel after the Brooklyn beatdown last December, have been rounded up and more busts may be on the way, sources said Wednesday.

Fashion student Taj Patterson, 22, has said he was headed to his Fort Greene home following a night of partying when over a dozen ultra-Orthodox men accosted him on Flushing Ave. in Williamsburg while shouting anti-gay slurs.

“This is news to us,” said a man who answered the phone at Patterson’s home.

The main instigator kicked him in the face, yelling “stay down, f—-t, stay the f— down,” as others cheered, Patterson recalled.

Patterson said over a dozen Hasidic men attacked him.

“And that’s really all I can remember of that,” he had told the News.

Identities of the suspects were not immediately disclosed and the Brooklyn district attorney’s office had no immediate comment.

The defendants were expected to be arraigned later Wednesday, a source said.

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