Attention hate monger: This “cracka” has been in the community for awhile.
The 44-year-old white Brooklyn train commuter pummeled by a black man who told him, “Cracka, you don’t belong here,” at a Flatbush train stop said he and his fiancée are bonafide neighborhood residents — and he has no idea why he was attacked.
WHITE SUBWAY RIDER ASSAULTED BY BLACK MAN IN BROOKLYN STATION: ‘CRACKA, YOU DON’T BELONG HERE’
“He really shouldn’t be on the streets,” Randy Aveille said about the bruiser who punched him as he exited the Church Ave. station about 9:45 p.m. Saturday.
“If you’re going to cause harm to someone because you think they looked at you… that’s not a good reason to harm somebody physically.”
In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, Aveille — who works at American Express and sells photos of the city — said he had gotten on the Q train at Seventh Ave. with his fiancée after the couple went out for dinner.
Once they were on the train, Aveille thought he saw actress Emily Bergl of the Showtime series “Shameless” on the other side of the train car.
His attacker — a well-groomed black man sporting a beard and wearing a skull cap with embossed white lettering on it — was in his line of sight, he said.
“He must have thought that I was staring… or challenging him in some way,” Aveille said, showing the bruised right eye he suffered because of his stargaze.
When Aveille and his wife got off at the Church Ave. station and approached the stairs, his attacker crept up behind him — and suckerpunched him in the head, he claimed.
“I was kind of stunned,” Aveille said. “I didn’t know what was going on. As I started to turn a little bit, I got hit in the (right) eye. At that point, I lost my equilibrium, I tripped, probably over my own feet (and) fell to the ground.”
“I was just trying to regain my composure when he started to kick me,” he said.
The crazed commuter also elbowed Aveille’s fiancée in the head as she and another woman — the one Aveille thought was Emily Bergl — tried to stop the attack.
The suspect spit in the other woman’s face as he ran off, Aveille said.
“Someone get his white cracka ass off the floor,” witnesses told police. “It’s a black neighborhood … You don’t belong here.”
Cops are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
Aveille said he’s lived in Flatbush “for around a year.” Before moving to Flatbush, he lived in Bushwick.
The neighborhood, he said, is in the midst of a racial change, but didn’t think he would be targeted for it.
“I think (current residents) are feeling pushed out,” Aveille said. “My fiancée and I have walked to the train, and we’ve heard people having conversations about white people moving to the neighborhood.
“It’s not the first time I’ve gotten the vibe, but (those weren’t) directed to me,” he said. “You never think it’s going to happen to you, (but) I guess everybody who gets attacked thinks that.”
Aveille’s attacker remained on the loose Tuesday.
Anyone with information regarding this man’s whereabouts is urged to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
With ttracy@nydailynews.com
