Grace Lang recalled the victim “grinning ear to ear” during the attack at a bar near the University of Georgia. A university student in Georgia was attacked last week by a man wearing a Nazi uniform and red swastika armband while at a bar in Athens. Grace Lang of the University of Georgia (UGA) said she confronted the man after he and her friend began yelling at each other. After her friend attempted to remove the armband from the man’s arm, she said he swung a large glass beer glass into the left side of her face, breaking her nose and forcing her to later get multiple stitches. The man was arrested while she was outside of the bar waiting for emergency medical services, Lang added. “He is grinning ear to ear the entire time, including while assaulting me,” Lang told The Red & Black, a student-led newspaper. “He continued to try and pull and hit me but was pulled off by my friends. I was immediately disoriented and don’t remember him continuing to assault me.” (…) I sat outside with friends for 10 minutes before my friend, who is Jewish, noticed the man in a full [N]azi uniform complete with a red armband with the swastika. They get into a yelling match, and it is just him and two women smaller than him. “I get up and go to get in between them, and use my body as a blockade to keep him from coming in. I reach to rip off the armband, as that is the identifying factor that changed it from a soldier ‘costume’ to an unacceptable display of hate,” she reportedly said. “Within a few seconds of grazing his arm to solely remove the patch, he struck me in the face with a beer stein he had been carrying since arriving downtown,” she wrote in a GoFundMe fundraising page to cover her medical costs, which by Wednesday had generated more than $34,000 of its $55,000 goal.
via themirror: Georgia student raises $35,000 for medical expenses after being attacked by man dressed as ‘Nazi’
