Five young men punched and kicked a 79-year-old Yale professor walking home from work this past Friday night and left him unconscious, making off with his backpack and wallet.
Someone who noticed the man lying on the ground at Bradley Street and Whitney Avenue called the cops at 6:34 p.m., according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman.
“A witness said he’d seen the group in question, but didn’t realize they were beating up the victim until they’d fled and he could see the victim on the ground,” Hartman stated in a release.
The man lives near the scene of the attack. He made it home before police arrived, and his wife called for help. Injured, he was taken to the hospital for treatment.
“Officers were able to locate the victim’s wallet. Detectives are reviewing video surveillance in hopes of identifying the cowards responsible for this heinous attack,” Hartman added.
This is just horrific and intolerable, and it's not an isolated incident in the area. What kills me is the Yale community's focus on "micro aggressions" and "safe zones" from Halloween costumes or speech that they do not like, while ignoring the more important safe zone issue - the inability to walk from campus to your own home without fear of getting brutally assaulted or killed. And is there a REASON the media conspicuously omits the race of the attackers?? "Young males"? Really? Is there anyone on this site who honestly believes that if a black student or professor were attacked by white males the race of the assailants would not only be in the article and mentioned in police announcements but would be the dominant fact?
[Editor: As a matter of fact, we would not identify the race either way unless the police were asking the public for help in appreehending a specific dangerous person at large. That is our longstanding policy, for over 10 years.]