August 17, 2016
2 Men Get Probation in Brooklyn Beating of Gay Black Man
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Two Hasidic men who admitted to participating in the beating of a black man in Williamsburg, Brooklyn have been sentenced to three years of probation and 150 hours of community service.
A judge on Tuesday also ordered 22-year-old Pinchas Braver and 42-year-old Abraham Winkler to pay $1,400 in restitution to Taj Patterson, who was assaulted in December 2013 by several men who yelled anti-gay slurs.
The New York Post (http://nyp.st/2aSr5n5) reports the men were members of an Orthodox Jewish watchdog group. Five men were originally charged in the beating, but charges against two of them were later dropped. A fifth defendant is headed to trial.
Braver and Winkler had faced up to 25 years in prison on gang assault charges before pleading guilty to unlawful imprisonment in May.
