Paul Boytt and others assault Timothy Murphy

[Daily Mirror: "I was on my way home,"; said Murphy. "; They told me they were beating me because I was a white man." [Approximate location]. [See also related event -- a police officer came on the scene, and shot Boytt] [DA File] The defendant [Boyett], in concert with "about nine others" not arrested, "seized hold of the deponent [Murphy]" on the corner of West 127th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, and said "you white son-of-a-bitch, take it now," before striking and kicking him about the face, head and body – which caused him a broken nose and loss of hearing in his left ear. Boyett denied the charge, saying he was merely an onlooker. A jury acquitted him.