Sara(h) was interviewing me for her thesis about Bloomington punk and asked a question about skinheads when I remembered this incident in the past year of Bloomington. I had written some lyrics for a new Defiance, Ohio song about it, but had never researched the details. I quickly found this information from the HT:<\/p>\n
Police and city officials are still investigating the beating of a 25-year-old man Tuesday morning as a hate crime, even though the victim was not black, as had previously been reported.<\/p>\n
The man was attacked after a group of white men with what appeared to be shaved heads yelled anti-black racial slurs at him.<\/p>\n
A little after 4 a.m., the victim and his wife were leaving a downtown tavern when they began hearing racial slurs from across the street.<\/p>\n
The group of white men, all dressed in dark-colored clothing, then crossed the street in the 500 block of East Kirkwood Avenue and began attacking the victim.<\/p>\n
One of the assailants used a skateboard to strike the victim, causing several lacerations to the man’s head.<\/p>\n
He was taken to the hospital after his wife ran to get their car. The victim told police he had suffered a concussion and two dislocated bones in his arms.<\/p>\n
Police officials said there was no new information regarding the case on Wednesday, and encouraged anyone with knowledge of the attack to contact them.<\/p>\n
City spokeswoman Maria Heslin said the incident would still be pursued as a hate crime, even though a police report made no indication of the victim’s race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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