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08/08/2005:

"Black Man Is Attacked by Whites in Brooklyn, Police Say"

...The attackers - as many as six teenagers or men in their early 20's who rode in a van or sport utility vehicle - sped away before police officers arrived.

No weapons were recovered at the scene. Mr. Moore was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center with bruises of the head, chest, arms and hip caused by blunt trauma, and a severe ankle laceration. He was released late last night.

The assault - six weeks after a group of white men attacked three black men in Howard Beach, Queens, severely beating one with a baseball bat - sent tremors of shock through Flatlands, a quiet neighborhood of shops and one- and two-family homes near Brooklyn's south shore, where Jews, Italians, African-Americans and Caribbean immigrants share a generally peaceful, integrated life.
Full: nytimes.com