Two Iraq war veterans were beaten by a mob of 30-50 people when they saw two men trying to abduct a teenage girl and tried to intervene:
A wolf pack of at least 30 thugs viciously attacked two hero ex-Marines in Brooklyn after they rescued a teenage girl who was being assaulted, police and witnesses said yesterday.
And when the brother of one of the former servicemen tried to come to his rescue during the July 25 melee in Coney Island, he was beaten into a coma.
The former leathernecks, Valentyn Olenyev, 23, and Boris Bukler, 22, Russian émigrés who served tours in Iraq, were walking a female friend to her parked car on West 23rd Street at 12:30 a.m. when they spotted two men holding the screaming teen by her hands and legs.
“She was yelling, ‘Help!’ ” said Olenyev. “I asked her, ‘Do you need help?’ She said, ‘Yes!”
“It wasn’t our intention to get into a fight,” said Bukler. “We said, ‘Let the girl go, and we’ll leave.’ We told them, ‘Stop.’
“She was screaming, and all we did was look to help her. I got a bottle smashed over my head, and after that, I started fighting. But I got beat down.
“I was getting my ass kicked by 50 people.”
Their friend called Olenyev’s brother, Ivan, 22.
“When I showed up, there were a lot of people there, people on the left and people on the right, and then – ‘Boom!’ – I got hit and passed out,” Ivan told The Post from his hospital bed.
The marines claim the attackers made anti-White comments during the attack technically making this a hate crime, but the authorities aren’t treating it as such. The men who were beaten are heroes, and let’s hope this gang of animals are arrested and taken off the streets.
This is exactly the sort of thing that caused me to move out of New York.
This is horrible! It’s good to see not everyone turns their backs when they hear a cry for help, but it’s pathetic when a man trying to help a young victim gets attacked by a large group of people for apparently no other reason than the color of his skin – no matter what color it may be.
I have to say, I can’t help but feel if the word had been “black” or “n*****” instead of “white”, it would have been immediately and without question labeled a hate crime. It all needs to stop, all color references, or pathetic idiots like this will keep away potential heroes. Sadly, it could be their own child they keep from being rescued in the future by scaring away someone only wanting to help. And that statement goes for people of all colors.