Around 3AM on October 17th I stepped outside the Lamplighter club, ready to go home after having a great time there. As soon as I made a few steps, I heard a very rude remark made about myself. The remark came from behind so I turned around and asked them to clarify why they made the remark. At this point I realized that I was facing 7 males (6 white, 1 asian) who had no intention of apologizing.
After I spent a few minutes trying to defend my position, the asian male took out his phone and started filming me. I asked him to stop but he didn't listen. I decided to do the same and pulled out my phone - if anything happened, at least I would have all of their faces on camera.
I filmed each and every one of them and said "Alright. I got all of you?". At this point, the guy in the center said "Film me man. Yeah, you got me? You got me??" and landed the unexpected punch. Since I was looking at the camera when the punch landed, I had no time to react to it or deflect it. The punch knocked me out and I hit my head against concrete with full force.
After this point and for the next two hours, I do not remember anything. The first memory I have is of me covered in blood, being rolled in a wheelchair into a CT-scan room in St. Paul's Hospital. After a few minutes, they told me what happened and that I had a fractured sinus, concussion and facial lacerations.
A month has passed and I'm still having terrible headaches and experience dizziness almost constantly. The incident also left me with a permanent scar on my face.
The police cannot make any further progress until the guy is identified.
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