Too bad some citizen didn´t have a gun....!!

One of the witnesses could have pulled a weapon and stopped the murder attempt right then - oh, wait...NYC uses tax dollars to knowingly and deliberately violate American citizens civil rights where keeping and bearing weaponns is concerned. Guess the police were minutes away, so the victim is out numbered and out of luck.

Hate toy make assumptions and sound racist, but Hatem Farkshsah? Another person allowed in for whatever reason?

Seven on one. How many stood around and watched?

The descent, post-Rudy, continues in NYC. Bloomberg has more important things to do than address crime, unless by crime you mean drinking a large soda.

Did Mayor Bloming-idiot come out and say the good news is that this type of crime doesn´t happen all that often.

Well, at least, the police came an, as is their usual role, picked up the pieces of the victim and took down notes. Police are not there to "protect" anyone. They are there merely to examine and record the aftermath of mayhem and destruction and, perhaps, in one case in seven, arrest the persons responsible, who then have a one chance in three of being convicted of the crime. Victims are seldom involved in any of the process other than as evidence. Their sole protection from such violence is within their own ability to protect themselves.

McCarrons boozed up buddies and the bouncer just watched? Did anyone think of calling the cops. I hope he recovers. But boozed up and belligerent at 5 AM doesn´t usually end up well.

Yeah, blame the victim.

FTA: "I was videoing & it was hard to watch & I screamed for someone to call the police."

•Taking video with a cellphone, perhaps?

FTA re: the bouncer---"brutal fight"
•How is it a "fight" when only one side is armed and the victim is not Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, or "Grasshopper" Carradine?

Like someone up topic said, "A citizen with a gun could have ended it."

Too bad a court can´t seize the personal property of Cuomo and Bloomberg to pay the medical costs and some kind of "compensation" to the victim.

That base covered -- yeah, plenty of folks came up way short in this atrocity.

Come on people - when someone´s only swinging a tire iron at you, you can´t make it an unfair fight by responding with a gun. Like the little palestinian children who just throw rocks at Israelis. Guns kill. You should be able to defend yourself. Whatsa matter with you.

Defy any ban on guns.
Better to be judged than to end up dead - like in Chicago.

If I´m on the jury it´s an automatic "NOT GUILTY."

Mayor Bloomy, do your job! Time to ban all tire irons, baseball bats and blackjacks in NYC! Do it for the children. S/

Speaking of children, better ban the finger as well, you know, making the hand look like a gun. That´s getting little kids suspended, might as well ban!
s/

After the mostly black jury awarded five thugs $43 million for getting shot while assaulting Bernie Goetz on the NYC subway in 1984, you´re not going to find many sympathetic bystanders in NYC. Progressvism may be stupid, but they have a well-developed sense of self-interest.

The perps are no better than savage animals. Actually, savage animals are better because they have a legitimate excuse - they Are savage animals. I hope the victim recovers. In the meantime Bloomy has ordered a reduction in his pain killers and any soft drink requests.

That´s right...the poor guy was not allowed to protect himself from a gang of armed thugs by having a gun. If he did, they would have arrested him and made him a felon. Now that he has been beaten within an inch of his life, he won´t be able to get any painkillers because Nanny Bloomberg is worried about people becoming addicted. And then if the guy just wants to at least enjoy a soda or have a little salt to make his broth edible, too bad...Bloomberg won´t let him have that small comfort either. Poor guy is screwed.

The woman video taping it on her phone did us all a service. These things get pushed under the rug if they aren´t put out there for the world to see.

It´s not like there weren´t other people around with phones. And what were his buddies doing all this time?

I made the mistake of reading the comments after the article. Such morons.

A Gang of Toughs???? How about another brutal attack by black youths ? How long can the MSM avoid the truth... black youth are encouraged to kill whitey by their community leaders.

NYC, a liberal paradise. Along with Chicago, Detroit, etc. Anybody see a pattern here.? Anybody?

One of the other perps is Sherif Rizk. Both definitely of Middle Eastern descent.

I pulled a picture of Hatem...they were NOT black. Let´s please stop jumping to racial conclusions.

So she stands there with a phone in her hand, recording video, and screaming for someone to call 911.

What´s wrong with that picture?

When I lived there, I wandered aimless as a dog all over the Village at all hours and never feared for my safety. I would not do that today.

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

The perpetrators had tire iron,baseball bat and blackjack at the ready? The ACLU is trying to stop the NYPD from doing stop and frisk searches of suspicious people.

Those evil, evil high-capacity tire irons and baseball bats.