[WILLIAMSBURG] Would-be robber beats man on Marcy Avenue

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Dennis LynchBrooklyn Paper90th PrecinctSouthside–WilliamsburgHeadacheA would-be robber beat up a man on Marcy Avenue on Aug. 1, police said.The victim was coming off the train around 5:20 am and had just reached the Hewes Street intersection when a guy came up from behind and tried to steal his cellphone from his hands.
The victim resisted and got the phone in his pocket, but the lout did not like that, so he hit him over the head nearly a dozen times