Video of 65 Year Old Man Assaulted on Joralemon Street July 6

By on July 19, 2016 9:19 am in Brooklyn Heights, crime, News

(To see video, click on “Read full story” and follow the link. Also see update for an interview with the victim.) Several news media have obtained a surveillance video of a 65 year old man receiving a “sucker punch” as he walked along Joralemon Street on the evening of July 6. The victim’s eyeglasses were broken and he was treated at a hospital for an eye laceration. See the video here.

Update: Mary Frost’s Eagle story includes an interview with the victim, Joralemon Street resident Richard Carey.

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  • Frown of Passion

    It is disingenuous of you to accuse anyone of being derisive. Your verbose comments are masterpieces of passive aggression. I have long suspected that your “studio” is the comment section of the BHB and that your comments are some sort of performance art. There is an increasing amount of evidence that you–believing your are subtle and clever–comment to foment conflict among your neighbors. The majority of posters on BHB comment in good faith. You do not. If I’m wrong, then never in the history of website commenting has so much been written by one person with so little to say. You are not the morality police of this blog nor the neighborhood. You SB-splain the nuances of upvotes, language, race, teenage behavior, and even the comments of other posters. This constant patronizing derails discussions of vital BH issues, like safety in our neighborhood. Grow up and cut it out.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Fun theory.

  • Dalvec

    Yes! Agreed! Keep sending them and letting our elected officials know how you feel. Squadron’s office actually called me after I sent mine and I told them that I don’t think cameras, by themselves, are adequate and that we need an actual police presence.

  • Concerned

    I do get where your and redlola’s frustrations come from, but SB is good for the blog and a reasonable person.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Thanks for saying so, Concerned! Right back atcha. ;)

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    Point of clarification: I wasn’t really being critical of SB’s explanation of the upvote. I was more lamenting that SB had to do it in the first place, to fend of the inevitable attack that often follows one’s upvote…which I find silly in the first place.

  • Concerned

    Lol! Sorry CH. I think I might have started attacking up votes (and even non-up votes). In a platform where there are only two ways to communicate, I take the up vote pretty seriously. But I see the annoyance and comedy in the same.

  • redlola

    He felt the need to explain it not because he was going to be attacked but because he spends so much time fighting with me he did not want me or anyone else to think he wholeheartedly agreed with what i said. That was funny to me. What else is funny to me is that people count upvotes and infer stuff from them. StudioBrooklyn felt the need to toss me into some comment about the word thug when I never used that word because I upvote what Conncerned ssays and he uses the word thug, I mean really…

  • Sharon T

    I suggest that YOU after what you said consider a few basic alternatives; First we need a new Heights organization, an action committee to safeguard Heights citizens and not as a primary goal a bunch of BHA fops. Second, people have to demand that two NYPD High definition cameras be placed at Henry and Hicks & Joralemon. Third, people on Joralemon have to reach into THEIR pockets and install enough really high Def cameras so that there is a real seemless zone of HD Imaging so that identification is far more sure AND facial recognition software works. You need to demand protection and be willing to spend to get even beyond that. That’s IF you don’t want this situation to get worse!

  • Sharon T

    Agreed. We need a continuous police presence until like 1 AM on Joralemon and a lot more patrols on surrounding streets.

    But that’ s only one side of the coin…if you’re going to have a police presence the kids will only try to see how far they can go. Police presence means little unless it results in ARRESTS or at least a credible number of summons. Then, there’s a felt and we’ll observed penalty for acting out. If there are no real hard penalties, then it’s all public relations. Cops can’t just be on the scene, we need really active ENFORCEMENT

  • B.

    You’ll never have enough cameras and cops to contain the free-for-all that is becoming the behavioral norm among young people.

    The Heights was able to fight off Robert Moses when he wanted to ram a highway through your neighborhood, but I’m afraid it will be hard to fight the loutishness that’s now in vogue.

  • Sharon T

    Well, there IS a technology which…well, I’d like to see ONE real man here stand up in this whole mess and really DO something about this.

    Listening to all of you, I won’t hold my breath.

  • Andrew Porter

    If you use the tools Disqus provides, there are ways to counter those posts.

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