Joe_Penalty
Truth, Justice, Equality
For the third time....the nyp link doesn't work for me. Do you have a link to his confession of intentionally punching her? (not some of your bullshit "divining")
If he did it he should be fired, charged with hate crime and do some time.
NUMEROUS WITNESS ACCOUNTS of McIntyre hitting Ms. Davis abound on the interwebs. Youl should try reading up on this fella before you defend him.
Given the man has a history of race baiting whites in bars (the article mentions he'd had this same heated racial discussion with his white colleagues a few weeks before--as well as having a history of doing same over a period of 5 years at the bar Toast, per one of the regulars there).
And...given his luke warm aknowlegement/apology: "It was a very unfortunate event," he said afterwards. "I didn't mean for it to explode the way it did." , I'd say it was intentional. He intentionally engaged in a racial discussion that he knew had the potential to "explode" (his words, not mine).
Now, if this had happened as an isolated incident and the man had no connection to this woman or the other person involved whatsoever. If they were all strangers in a bar who'd never met before, and who just happened to have had just a bit too much to drink, I'd be more inclined to believe it was just a discussion that got out of hand and the sucker-punch was accidental.
However, Ms. Davis also works at Columbia. She is a colleague. He likely knows her pretty well, and knows her views on many topics--including racial topics, as he's had this discussion with her BEFORE and he knows how to get a "firey" discussion going. Note he says:
"I didn't mean for it to explode the way it did."
That is taking ownership of some sort---that is saying, "I meant to have a hot-button conversation with Ms Davis, we've done it before, but I never meant to get so mad I hit her."
So....I can only take from that his being at that specific bar, talking to those specific people, about this specific topic they'd discussed in prior bar sessions, that his participation in the discussion was intentional.
Not only that, but since you requested that I do your research for you, I did.
Check out the Columbia student newspaper. It would appear that McIntyre has heen racially harassing people in bars for years--he's assaulted at least two others without repercussions.
Associate professor assaults Arts School employee at local bar
Daniel Morgan, a local resident on 123rd Street who said he has known both the offender and the victim for around five years from frequenting Toastsaid that he was in the bar earlier that evening but left before either arrived.
Morgan said he ran into Davis on the street on Saturday, when he saw her injuries from the fight. Her right eye was closed from getting a beating, he said, adding, I told her, We got to go to the 26th Precinct and report this immediately. According to Morgan, nobody in the bar on Friday night had made any calls to the police, and Davis did not initially report the assault because she was frightened.
I told her, You are not offending anyone. You were attacked, he said. Though he has seen McIntyre get vocal at the bar, Morgan said he had never seen McIntyre get violent.
He added, What really pisses me off is that no one did anything about it. Morgan said that he was not sure about what caused the fight, though he noted that, over the past two years, McIntyre has generally been involved in increasingly heated conversations in the bar.
Davis waited three days to inform the police, because, according to Morgan, She was being pressured not to make waves.
The bartender and Monday night manager, Jeremywho declined to give his last namesaid that he had heard that something happened but was not there on Friday night. He declined to comment further.
Three locals at the bar on Monday nightall of whom spoke on the condition of anonymityalso confirmed that the altercation had occurred but declined to give any further details.
So....there's more info for you.
I'd go get McIntyre and personally inteview him for you, but somehow I don't think that would satisfy your demands either.
*sigh*
I'm not defending him....I simply said there was a lack of info to reach a solid conclusion. You claimed he confessed so I asked for a link to that confession and you respond by claiming I asked you to do my research for me? Do you understand when you make a claim you need to support it?
I thought the obviousness in lack of evidence was hidden or something.
Several questions have to be answered before we can draw a reasonable conclusion about McIntyre.