If John Hehman, may he rest in peace, had been black and his assailants had been white, you’d know his story by now. But the races were reversed and his murder has been relegated to a footnote by the p.c. New York Times and the rest of the national MSM. (Compare the NYTimes’ coverage of Hehman with this NYTimes story of a local white-on-black attack last year.)

Local media are filling in the details.

The New York Post reports:

The NYPD hate-crimes unit is probing a report that a white NYU student killed by a car in Harlem was fleeing a gang of black teenagers screaming “Get whitey!” sources said yesterday.

If the report proves true, the violence could turn out to be an eerie replay in reverse of the infamous 1986 Howard Beach murder, where a black man was chased into traffic and killed by a group of white bigots.

The 20-year-old student, John Broderick Hehman, died yesterday, six days after the attack.

The sources said Hehman might have been targeted as a soft mark for robbers after the teenage gang spotted the caring urban-studies major handing pocket change to a wheelchair- bound man near the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue Saturday night.

The gang of youths, some of them as young as 11, had been smoking pot inside a nearby Popeye’s fast-food eatery at 8:30 p.m. when they spotted Hehman walking by and then stopping to help the handicapped man.

An anonymous caller later tipped the CrimeStoppers hot line that a group of youths screamed, “Get Whitey!” and ran toward him.

Witnesses said Hehman fled into traffic against the light and was hit by a Mercedes-Benz traveling east on 125th Street.

The NY Daily News added this week:

The Harlem hooligans who killed an NYU student by chasing him into the path of a car were videotaped trashing a nearby McDonald’s, law enforcement sources revealed yesterday.

The footage could prove crucial in the hunt for the teens who screamed “Get the white boy!” as they chased John Broderick Hehman, 20, into traffic Saturday, the sources said.

At least two dozen punks were caught on video terrorizing workers at the E. 125th St. McDonald’s on March 24 - a week before Hehman was fatally injured a block away, sources said.

The suspects - including black teens who sources say attacked Hehman - kicked over trash cans, hurled trays through the air and knocked around registers, a witness said.

“I was terrified. I literally thought they were all going to jump over the counter and come after us,” said McDonald’s manager Maria Prandy, 33, who was hit in the face with a tray. “I’ve never been as scared as I was that night.”

Last night, four thugs were arrested (via NY1):

Four teenagers are facing charges in the death of an NYU student who was hit by a car earlier this month in Harlem in what some are calling a hate crime.

Hassan Mayfield and Andre Johnson, both 15, face second degree murder and robbery charges. Charges are pending against two 13 year olds.

Investigators believe the four chased 20-year-old Broderick Hehman into the street on April 1st. Hehman was hit by a silver Mercedes on East 125th Street near Park Avenue. He died three days later.

Eric Adams of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement says Hehman died for two reasons.

“One, because he made a decision to do a kind act for someone. Second because of his ethnicity; that’s unacceptable,” he said.

“Very simply, if the reports are accurate that one of the people in the group said, ‘get the white boy,’ that’s a hate crime,” said civil rights attorney Norman Siegel.

The NY Post condemns the damning silence about the case in the national media.

Hehman’s friends at NYU mourn his loss and remember his life and spirit here.

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