{"id":17383,"date":"2014-08-03T04:08:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T04:08:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-03T04:08:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T04:08:25","slug":"American-expat-in-Da-Nang-beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17383","title":{"rendered":"American expat in Da Nang beaten"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video of an elderly American man being beaten on the streets of Da Nang went viral this week, prompting ward police to describe the scene as the culmination of a long string of fights picked by Dennis Marshall Gray, 68, a hot-headed trouble-maker.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, however, Gray told Thanh Nien News he considered himself the victim of an assault, poor police work and his own temper in more or less that order.<\/strong>
\n“Don’t forget, I was the victim this weekend” he wrote in an email. “The video certainly shows that.”<\/p>\n

After the brief footage of his beating went viral online, thousands in Vietnam came to know Gray as the man who was whipped with a bicycle innertube as he struggled to escape a crowd in Thanh Khe District in the central city.<\/p>\n

His assailant, Le Van Phuoc, 29, told Thanh Khe police he attacked Gray after the American broke a woman’s nose.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police say they’ll clarify the violations committed on both sides and issue relevant fines to ensure public safety and punish violent behavior.<\/p>\n

I don’t know. He looks like one nasty guy!<\/strong><\/p>\n