200 Police Saturate Bronx Area to Head Off Ethnic Violence
Police have set up a 24-hour command post and saturated a Bronx neighborhood with as many as 200 officers after the second apparent ethnic attack in the area within a week, authorities said Tuesday.
On Sunday, two Yugoslavian brothers were beaten in the Belmont section by a group of Latino youths joined by two black youths. One of the brothers, Esko Makulic, 24, was in critical condition with a fractured skull, a hospital spokeswoman said. The other was treated and released.
In the same area a week ago Monday, eight white youths with baseball bats beat two Puerto Rican youths on vacation in New York, and one of them suffered a broken jaw.
Three teen-age residents have been arrested and charged with assault in the first attack. Three more teen-agers were arrested Tuesday night and charged in the second, police said.
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