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Video: Chinese Food Deliveryman Beaten In Manhattan Building

2011_04_chinesedelivery.jpg Police released video of a Chinese food deliveryman being beaten by three men in a Morningside Heights apartment building's hallway; a fourth man acts as a lookout. The assault occurred on Friday afternoon; according to NY1, "Police say they ordered Chinese food, then waited outside the sixth-floor elevator for the deliveryman to arrive."

The suspects tried to rob the deliveryman, while kicking and punching him, but ran away before taking his wallet. Police say the suspects, who are between 15 and 19 years old, ran to Morningside Park.

There are clear pictures of the suspects from the video; a resident of the building, 40 Morningside Avenue, told WCBS 2, "I’m ashamed as a citizen. People thought they could get away with it." The deliveryman suffered facial injuries from the attack.

Food deliverymen have been targets before: In 2008, a Chinese food deliveryman was fatally shot in the Bronx and in 2004, two teens killed a Queens Chinese food deliveryman.

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  • JohnnyAsian

    what are the names of the assailants? 

  • inoyourider21

    Fuckin' animals.
    Hang 'em high.

  • It's not really Morningside Heights: it's on the wrong side of park. West of park: higher altitude, e.g., "heights". East of park: lower altitude, e.g., "not heights". Anyone who's schlepped up those stairs can tel you that.

  • wow mom cool

    Nice job geniuses, a Chinese delivery place in Morningside heights that's gonna make you some sweet dough. If you're going to rob a deliverymen order from expensive restaurants on a rainy Thursday night at the very edge of their delivery zone. DUH!

  • Guest

    yet another curveball.

    sufficed to say, so far, it is unimaginable for a few commenters to think that these kids may have assaulted the deliveryman up just out of hatred?

    i'd like to take some credit for saying that the kids are not so dumb (meaning they did it out of hatred and not because of cash), and that they're capable of hatred based on race, just like some criminal racist white kids.

    ;)

  • wow mom cool

    Balthazaar delivers to avenue :)

  • Guest

    thank you. things will get better -- my hope is in good feelings.

  • MPA

    Those morons aren't "young men"

  • NlGGAZ

    I'm not saying that black people are more criminal than others I'm saying that black people are more stupid criminally than other. Beating a deliveryman? How much you gonna take? 30 bucks tops? and you got your pictures in the elevator. Meanwhile a white guy just embezzled millions from a bank and is living in the caymans scot free.

  • Guest

    another curveball. see above.

  • rightnyer

    Blacks are more criminal than others. Read the FBI statistics. Blacks, at 12% of the population, account for 55% of the homicides.

  • NlGGAZ

    like i said, it's cause they got caught.

  • rightnyer

    Are you really stupid enough to believe that the entire black/hispanic and asian/white crime disparity is due to the rates at which the offenders get caught?

  • gumbojuice

    Send these black thugs to China to do hard labor for life.

    Their lives are worthless.

  • BoogieDown

    There are few forms of life lower than those who prey on poor immigrants who bust their asses all week long to make an honest living. Send these little POS to China for a year to give them some goddamned perspective. You try that over there and you will not be heard from again.

  • m015094

    These High School aged kids are out of control.

  • rightnyer

    Ahh, the typical response of a deluded liberal. Always refreshing.

  • glen_glenn

    Ahh, the typical response of a troglodyte racist. Always refreshing.

  • rightnyer

    Right, because the acts of black teenage thugs, who grew up in a community with endemic illegitimacy are representative of "high school aged kids" in general. Fool.

  • wow mom cool

    How do you know what kind of community they grew up in? It's Morningside heights, maybe they're Columbia students? Did you consider the fact that not every black person in Morningside Heights comes from a community of "endemic illegitimacy", whatever that means.

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