Gay man awarded $4.5 million after alleged attack by religious patrol, officials say

Source: Miami Herald

Gay man awarded $4.5 million after alleged attack by religious patrol, officials say

Brendan Rascius
Tue, October 4, 2022 at 11:49 AM

Almost 10 years ago, Taj Patterson was walking in Brooklyn when he said men from a religious volunteer group chased him down and attacked him, court documents show.

“I was a 22-year-old kid going out for a friend’s birthday,” Patterson, who was a student in New York at the time, told McClatchy News in a phone interview. “I didn’t think my life would change so drastically so quickly.”

After years of litigation, the case reached its conclusion on Sept. 19.

On Dec. 1, 2013, men from the Williamsburg Safety Patrol, a volunteer group of Orthodox Jews, shouted homophobic slurs and beat Patterson, a Black, gay man, so severely that the attack left him blind in one eye, he said in court documents.

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