Latest Knockout Attack “Victim” Recants His Story

The London man who made headlines for potentially being the latest victim of a “knockout” attack has recanted his story, and said he was never attacked at all.

CBS News reports:

It was not immediately learned how the man emerged bloody after the alleged attack, as was documented in a published photo. Police did not indicate whether they would go after him on possible charges of filing a false report.

The news site JP Updates said the man “may have just fallen and banged his face on the concrete pavement,” and that the man was on his way back to the U.K. once it was learned he had recanted his story.

The man told cops that he was assaulted at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, when an assailant knocked him over and smashed his face into the pavement on McDonald Avenue near 18th Avenue.

He suffered a chipped tooth and split lip.

Councilman David Greenfield at the time suggested it was “yet another apparent anti-Semitic assault.”

Police did not say whether they would charge the purported victim with charges of filing a false report.