Police: Story of 'knockout' never happened

New York Police Department said this week that the benefactor from London R' Sinai Yitzchak Waldman who was supposedly injured by a knockout attack perpetrated by Gentiles while he came out of a nephew's wedding in Boro Park, retracted the story and admitted that he stumbled and fell and was injured from the fall.

This week it was reported that Rabbi Sinai Yitzchak Waldman was attacked by three non-Jews who performed the "knockout" on him when he left a wedding hall on Mac Donald and 18th Avenue. The picture of his bleeding face and bloody and bruised nose appeared throughout the media. Waldman was rushed to the Maimonides hospital, filed a complaint with the police, which began investigating the incident by watching the films of security cameras in the area.

The attack caused a great stir in Boro Park as Waldman is a well known and respected personality and the incident took place in a hall that many Haredi residents of the neighborhood hold their simchas in.

City Councilman David Greenfeld even published a condemnation of the incident. Last Wednesday night, before Waldman's return to London the news site reporter contacted the police and asked to see what was done in the matter. To his surprise he was told that Waldman retracted the story, and that he was injured in a fall.

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