{"id":10187,"date":"2013-09-10T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10187"},"modified":"2013-09-10T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:25:27","slug":"i-hate-white-people-beating-victim-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10187","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I hate white people\u2019 beating victim dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/unionsq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10188\" alt=\"unionsq\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/unionsq.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>A 62-year-old man who was brutally attacked in Union Square in New York last week died Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, a man shouting that he \u201chated white people\u201d punched victim Jeffrey Babbitt \u2014 who is white \u2014 in the face, witnesses said, causing him to fall and strike his head on the ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lashawn Marten, 31, who is black, \u201cmade statements to the effect that I\u2019m going to punch the first white man that I see,\u201d said NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brooklyn resident Jeffrey Babbitt died at Bellevue Hospital after a seemingly unprovoked attack at Union Square.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After punching Babbitt, Marten allegedly attacked two other men who came to Babbitt\u2019s aid, police said. \u00a0Police were investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paramedics took Babbitt to Bellevue Hospital, where he lapsed into a coma and was pronounced brain-dead by doctors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Babbitt was a longtime resident of the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, where neighbors and friends were shocked by news of the assault. \u00a0\u201cEverybody\u2019s broken up about this,\u201d neighbor Audrey Feifer, 75, told Newsday. \u201cIf you had to go to the doctor or anywhere, he would take you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Babbitt reportedly lived with his 94-year-old mother Lucille, and was described by those who knew him as being \u2018obsessed\u2019 with trains and comic books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marten has been charged with second- and third-degree assault and will go before a grand jury Tuesday, the Manhattan D.A.\u2019s office told PIX11 Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marten\u2019s charges may be upgraded at that time. &#8211; pixII.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 62-year-old man who was brutally attacked in Union Square in New York last week died Monday. On Wednesday, a man shouting that he \u201chated white people\u201d punched victim Jeffrey Babbitt \u2014 who is white \u2014 in the face, witnesses said, causing him to fall and strike his head on the ground. Lashawn Marten, 31, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u2018I hate white people\u2019 beating victim dies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[6050,5980,6049,2025,6048],"class_list":["post-10187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-i-hate-white-people","tag-jeffrey-babbitt","tag-lashawn-marten","tag-nypd","tag-union-square-in-new-york"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/unionsq.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10190,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions\/10190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}