NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN CHRISTINA CARREGA-WOODBY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Two of the men arrested in the horrific beating of a gay black man in Brooklyn pleaded guilty Wednesday to lesser charges.
Pinchas Braver and Abraham Winkler pleaded guilty in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn to unlawful imprisonment for their role in the beating of Taj Patterson, 25.
Patterson was walking down Flushing Ave. in Williamsburg in December 2013 when he was set upon by a gang of men linked to the Shomrim, a volunteer Orthodox Jewish security patrol. They shouted anti-gay slurs and beat him up, prosecutors said.
Patterson suffered savage injuries, including a broken eye socket and a torn retina that left him permanently blind in one eye.
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