Two Asian UW-Madison students were beaten while walking down the 400 block of West Gilman Street early Saturday morning in what Madison Police have labeled as a hate-crime.
According to a Capital Times report, Daniel H. Cheung, 21, and Wai Kit Cheung, 22, were walking down the street when two men began shouting obscenities and racial slurs at them.
Daniel Cheung and Wai Kit Cheung, who are not related, both live on the block and were returning home from a tavern on the Capitol Square.
Wai Kit Cheung was then badly beaten, receiving a cut above his right eye that required stitches, as well as an abrasion on his right shoulder. Daniel Cheung experienced swelling and a bruise near his right eye, The Capital Times reported.
'They came out of nowhere. We looked at them and we didn't know what was going on. My friend was cut open. His eyebrow was split and he was bleeding. I just turned around and asked, 'What's going on? What's happening here'? They were provoking us. One of them was saying, 'Come get some' and 'You want some more'? And he said 'Nigger,'' Daniel Cheung told The Capital Times.
The attackers, he said, were intoxicated.
Daniel Cheung then pulled out his cellular phone to contact police and the two alleged attackers, along with their girlfriends, entered a security-locked building at 415 W. Gilman St., several witnesses to the incident reported.
Daniel and Wai Kit Cheung, both natives of Hong Kong, were listed as UW-Madison juniors in the 2000-'01 Student Directory.
Daniel Cheung told The Capital Times he believes the incident was racially motivated because it came completely unprovoked.
'I just think that we were easy targets because we were Asian men walking down the street talking to ourselves. Maybe it was just bravado, I don't know what was going on,' he said.
