Police busted Lionel McIntyre, 59, for assault yesterday after his bruised victim, Camille Davis, filed charges.
McIntyre and Davis, who works as a production manager in the school's theater department, are both regulars at Toast, a popular university bar on Broadway and 125th Street, sources said.
The professor, who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about "white privilege" with Davis, who is white, and another male regular, who is also white, Friday night at 10:30 when fists started flying, patrons said.
McIntyre, who is known as "Mac" at the bar, shoved Davis, and when the other patron and a bar employee tried to break it up, the prof slugged Davis in the face, witnesses said.
"The punch was so loud, the kitchen workers in the back heard it over all the noise," bar back Richie Velez, 28, told The Post. "I was on my way over when he punched Camille and she fell on top of me."
The other patron involved in the dispute said McIntyre then took a swing at him after he yelled, "You don't hit a woman!"
"He knocked the glasses right off my face," said the man, who would only give his first name as "Shannon." "The punch came out of nowhere. Mac was talking to us about white privilege and what I was doing about it -- apparently I wasn't doing enough."
McIntyre had squabbled with Davis several weeks earlier over issues involving race, witnesses said. As soon as the professor threw the punch Friday, server Rob Dalton and another employee tossed him out.
"It was a real sucker punch," Dalton said. "Camille's a great lady, always nice to everybody, and doesn't deserve anything like this."
Davis was spotted wearing sunglasses yesterday to conceal the black eye. Reached at her Columbia office, she declined to comment on the alleged attack.
McIntyre was released without bail at his arraignment last night.
"It was a very unfortunate event," he said afterwards. "I didn't mean for it to explode the way it did."
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- JulianCommongold
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Maybe they should have been discussing misogyny instead of race relations.
Punching a woman...
Really?I am extremely curious what his stand is on race relations that make him think it was appropriate to bust a female in the mouth.
So is he a racist, bigot, misogynist or just plain crazy piece of shit?I will point out he is a prof of architecture not humanities.
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- JulianCommongold
- 15 days ago
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Hate Crime. He is a racist. Charge him with a hate crime.
Actually, more importantly, he is a P***Y for hitting a women. For that alone he should do time. Race has nothing to do with it
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I am afraid we are going to see more and more of this type of behavior because of the racist undertones within the "take back America" movement.
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I'm sure she did something to force him to do it. He's a victim, no doubt.
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So what is Colombia going to do about it ? He should be fired most schools have zero tolerance when it comes to violence or hate crimes
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ouch
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hey! I have to agree with a comment that i saw just now...
"Da' brutha is jus' keepin' his "vanilla-beeoch" in line, you jive-turkeys!" LOL.... No need to get excited here! this sort of thing happens every day! hahaha.... no no, I'm just messing... it's sad that it happen, but hate crime? nah, I think he overreacted and now needs to do some jail time for hitting a female in the face. -
SO MUCH ANGER, can't we all just get along!
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why are their respective races important? How many times (maybe minus the professor part) could the races be reversed and the headline describe incidences of violence. white men hit black women and all other kinds of women, so do black men. Surprise, women violently abuse people too, even black men.
this headline is racially inflammatory
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- spoonieday
- 15 days ago
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also, maybe we should heated issues like race out of discussions that take place around alcohol. alcohol makes people dumb and violent, people of all races.
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- spoonieday
- 15 days ago
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Where da white bitches at? This cant be doing anything for this man's side of the argument.
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Wrong, wrong, Brotha man, you're wrong. It doesn't matter what she said. You should have walked away.
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- booksellergirl
- 15 days ago
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I lol'd. Come on, you have to appreciate the hilarity of this nonsense.
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The Black Professor acted stupidly. Wait a minute 'Whitey' must of deserved it. I feel a beer summitt coming on.
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- My_America
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