A black man was punched in the face after asking a racist to stop screaming offensive abuse at a group of people.
The victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, was left with blood pouring from his mouth and over his blue denim shirt after the early-morning assault in Leicester city centre. He was walking to find a taxi after a night out with friends when he heard the white man, who was riding a BMX, shouting a torrent of abuse at some Asian men.
Travelling alone in the early hours of Sunday morning, he asked him to stop.
“He was just saying a barrage of offensive words. Lots of really nasty words," he recalled.
“I said, ‘saying stuff like that isn’t cool’.
“I went to try and say to him, ‘it doesn’t matter if you’re white, Asian or black’ We’re all human’, I was trying to say to him."
The attacker, who was in Market Street near the crossing at King Street, then accused the black man of being racist for mentioning that he was white.
He began making remarks to his victim, who has lived in Leicester for more than a decade. “He said that I should ‘go back to the plantations’.
He said, ‘we should make you slaves again’," added the victim. “I didn’t want to stoop to his level. I’ve had friends who have reacted to this sort of thing and then they have got in trouble.
“There are people in my community who do silly things.
"But there are times people have got in trouble for reacting when people have said some very offensive things."
