PARK SLOPE — Police are investigating a broad daylight assault on a transgender man that left the victim seriously injured, the NYPD said.
The 32-year-old victim was walking northbound on Ninth Street near Seventh Avenue at 11:10 a.m. on May 13 when a group of five men in their late teens or early 20s confronted him, police said.
One of the men said to the victim, "What are you looking at, you white f-----?," police said.
Three of the men then beat up the victim, leaving him with a fractured left eye socket, police said. The victim was taken to New York Methodist Hospital.
The attack is being investigated as a hate crime, police said.
The attack follows the recent sentencing of 25-year-old James Dixon to 12 years in prison for the 2013 beating death of Islan Nettles in Harlem.
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