A Buffalo teen, viciously attacked earlier this week, remains in the hospital. Police are investigating the beating as a possible hate crime because the victim is white and the wanted suspects are a dozen African American men.
Brian Milligan, 18, is recovering at Erie County Medical Center. He's got bleeding in his brain and a broken jaw. Police say the group of men attacked him Tuesday night near the corner of Genesee Street and Floss Avenue.
"It didn't even look like my son," said Brian Milligan Sr., describing what his son looked like after the beating. He feels confident his son's beating is a hate crime because his son is white and his African American girlfriend was repeatedly taunted and teased about their relationship before the attack.
"They're just in love. They just want to be left alone," he said.
Brian's father says his son didn't get a good look at those who beat him because they hit him from behind using a concrete brick.
"I mean, I couldn't believe that a human can lose so much blood and walk home for five blocks," Milligan Sr. said.
Buffalo Police have not arrested anyone for the crime. Milligan thinks the police response would have been different if his son wasn't white. "I don't want to sound wrong, but, what happens if this was a black boy laying up on that bed, and it was twelve white guys that did this to him ?"
