HATE CRIME? Black Man Knocks Out Random 70 Year Old White Man In Miami

MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Police in Miami Beach are searching for a man who, they said, knocked a man unconscious while he was waiting to cross the street.

Surveillance video from Nov. 21 showed a man wearing a light-colored shirt punching 70-year-old Cesar Martinez in the head at the corner of Alton Road and 10th Street.

“He hit me in the head. I fell down, and I broke my nose,” Martinez said. “I got a contusion over here in my head. Somebody came from behind. I didn’t see nobody.”

Martinez had just left a nearby Walgreens when he was attacked, and surveillance video captured the man walk up to punch Martinez. As soon as he punches the 70-year-old, he casually walks away.

Video from a passer-by showed Martinez lying in the street seconds after he was punched.

“It appears to be random, unprovoked,” Miami Beach Police spokesperson Ernesto Rodriguez said. “There was no conversation.”

According to police, Trent Cory, a witness who saw the incident, grabbed his cellphone, followed the man and began recording while a good Samaritan stayed behind to help Martinez.

“He just knocked him out,” he said. “They knocked them out cold, and he was just walking down the road like nothing had happened, so I put the video out hoping to identify him and asked him why he did that, and he just shrugged at me and looked as if he did nothing. It was heinous.”