Student injured in Green Street battery incident on Sunday morning
Apr 5, 2023
Last updated on April 6, 2023 at 07:06 p.m.
The University of Illinois Police Department was alerted of an alleged battery incident on the 200 block of East Green Street in Champaign early Sunday morning.
The UIPD said a student reported a group of men directed racial slurs at him. According to the UIPD, the student responded by physically engaging the group.
“The men attempted to push the student away several times, and then one of the men punched the student in the face,” the UIPD said in a blotter summary of the incident.
The student reportedly received “minor physical injuries.”
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Although the restaurant Chopstix was mentioned in the initial UIPD Police Blotter report, UIPD spokesperson Pat Wade said Chopstix “wasn’t really involved in the incident at all, except for the fact that the people involved happened to be walking past the business when it happened.”
