A major story is breaking on the East Coast in New York City — a brutal gay beating hate crime that was caught on video tape. The victim, 49-year-old Jack Price, crawled to his apartment and managed to call police and identify his attackers before being rushed to a hospital where he is reportedly in a medically induced coma with multiple serious injuries.
Here is the AP raw video embedded on You Tube offered with the embed codes (which means the AP allows for it to be embedded):
Here’s the news report from New York’s WPIX on the story:
Note that the video shows the assailants going back and rifling through the victim’s pockets — so several charges will be involved here.
CNN reports that the second suspect fled to Virginia and has now been arrested.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.