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Pratt Student In Coma After Attack In Brooklyn

2009_08_esanchez.jpg Last week, a 22-year-old Pratt student was robbed and brutally beaten at Grand and Lexington Avenues in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill section. Eddy Sanchez had been walking towards to the Pratt campus around 10 p.m. last Tuesday night when, WCBS 2 reports, five teens surrounded him—"They demanded money, and when Sanchez initially refused, the suspects punched and kicked him into submission, and took what they wanted." The Daily News adds that one teen used a crowbar to beat him when he tried to fight back. Now Sanchez is in a coma at Kings County Hospital.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "The motivation was robbery. His credit cards were taken from him, and the credit cards were subsequently used." Surveillance video also captured some of the teens using Sanchez's ATM card to withdraw cash.

Sanchez's mother Betty, who, with her husband, flew from Miami to be with their son, told the News, "I want everyone to pray for him. There's a God who loves him very much. I'm confident Eddy is going to pull through." The Local has a photograph of the scene after the attack: A blood stain, a candle and a sign near it saying, "THIS IS NOT ALRIGHT."

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  • Andrew_7396

    Where is Al Sharpton?

    Please take a moment to mail/email his National Action Network.

    (e) crisis@nationalactionnetwork.net

    National Action Network

    Attention: Rev. Al Sharpton

    Crisis Department

    106 W. 145th Street

    Harlem, New York 10039

    (212) 690-3070

  • Snoopy

    I emailed the mofos. Let's see if they reply.

  • yytttt

    1st arrest made, per NY1.com. may justice be swift (and may 16 year old dip shit Eugene Adams be tried as an adult).

  • Snoopy

    At what time did this guy's mama show up for the extra $200 for his school uniform and his back pack offered by the government.

  • Bernie Madoff-Goetz

    I love the report from Channel 7:

    http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6960977

    A white fist graphic is used behind the anchorwoman and then the reporter doesn't mention to race of the attackers at all. This ONLY happens when the perps are black.

  • snickerdoodle

    The reverse racism in the liberal media gets more embarrassing and pointless every year. I love it when the perps are described as having "brown eyes, brown hair, medium build. Anybody who has any information about this crime please call this number." LOL. It could be anybody.

  • Snoopy

    At least that eliminates almost three quarters of the Asian population because they are normally "light build."

  • Snoopy

    No reason to report the obvious.

  • Clarice City

    Pratt has been there since 1887, so it's "lilly white assed" student body probably predates your mom. The student body is impressively diverse with a huge international exchange program. The school's second largest dorm is decicated to what they call an international learning community where the students living there are involed in all kinds of programs and events to learn about eachother's cultures. In addition, there is a lab school where the local kids can take art lessons and a scholarship program for talented Brooklyn public highschool students to attend Pratt.

    So, you're wrong on almost every point there, tiger.

  • JC

    even if pratt was opened in 1987 it would still predate most of the mothers in that neighborhood

  • Brooklynbobby

    LMAO!!!! The truth is always so funny, isn't it?

  • Snoopy

    But what about the fathers of those thugs?

    On second thought, never mind.

    It's amazing that the local precinct house is just a few blocks away from the incident and next to the Pratt campus but I guess they are afraid to leave the house because of the crime in their precinct. How many of you remember the big scandal quite a ways back when they found several precinct cars parked in Fort Greene and the cops were cooping on their shift. I believe it's the same precinct.

    Back in the old days very few Pratt students went on the other side of Greene. But I guess the new Higgins Hall extended the campus further south.

    Hope the dude pulls through with very little permanent damage.

    Praying the thugs pull through with a lot of permanent damage.

  • Clickety-Clickety Clack

    The precinct is on one side of Classon Avenue. Classon is the dividing line between precincts. They literally cannot answer calls for across the street. I read a really funny story about gun fire erupting in front of the precinct and everybody had to duck for cover and wait for the other precinct to come and put a stop to it.

  • Snoopy

    The 88th precinct which is on the Clinton Hill / Fort Greene side of Classon should be held responsible for the crime that is committed around Pratt and indeed they were the same idiots that were sleeping in their cars back in the late sixties.

  • Clarice City

    responding to resa

  • resa

    Jesus Christ. People of color are more likely to be the victims of people of color than are white people in that area of Brooklyn.

    That whole part of Brooklyn, where many very good people live, needs protection. It's not just the little white kids who go to Prat that need more police presence. These neighborhoods do not and have not had good police presence since they "turned". This was true before you moved your lilly white outraged ass there and it's true now. The fact is, your lilly white ass guarantees that the neighborhood WILL get more attention, and it's not because you complain more. If a Black kid got his head bashed in, you all would probably think that he deserved it.

    You really want to see change, get involved in your freaking community, tell the mayor that we need more cops and stop whining and lecturing people just because you think that you are better than them.

  • NannyState

    Yeah, demand more cops because the friends of these idiots just can't wait to snitch on them. Who the fuck are you kidding? It's everyone else's fault that these people live and behave like animals in their own shit. The cops, the whites, yada yada. Denial denial denial.

  • myself2

    The Daily news published the pictures of 4 African Americans suspected teens that used the Credit Cards stolen from the victim;

    To these 4 blacks losers that for a CELL PHONE and some CASH almost killed a life I want to say this: I hope you burn in HELL!

    It is a disgrace to have to live with these dogs!

  • nyorker555

    "Just think-- you could've spent all that energy sending your prayers to this victim or wishing him well."

    R.C. I dont disagree with you on your essential point, but saying we should all act like Jesus everyday to make the world a better place is, well, deeply naive.

  • The Hanger-On

    When is "alright" not "all right"?

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