ATHENS, Ga. — The Georgia student hit by a man dressed in a Nazi uniform outside an Athens bar said she fears for her safety.
“The main person confronting him was my Jewish friend, and I got in between them. I didn’t like where that was going,” Grace Lang told Channel 2’s Tom Regan.
The incident occurred late Thursday outside Cutter’s Bar and Grill on East Clayton Street, Athens-Clarke County police said.
The suspect, 33-year-old Kenneth Leland Morgan, is accused of hitting 23-year-old Lang in the face with a beer mug, causing significant injuries.
Videos of the attack have gone viral.
Lang has extensive facial injuries. She said her concussion is subsiding but is still having vision issues.
“I was incapacitated; I could still see,” she said. “I didn’t feel knocked out or anything.”
She said he hit her in the head again before being pulled away. Police arrested Morgan after he walked away, ad he is charged with felony aggravated assault and a misdemeanor count of simple battery.
“We are horrified by the actions of an individual, while in downtown Athens wearing a Nazi uniform, assaulted a female University of Georgia student,” a university spokesperson said in a statement. “His actions caught on videotape are appalling.”
Lang said she was left traumatized by the attack, and there have been attempts to harass her.
Morgan posted bond, but Lang said he is not allowed to be near her. He also was banned from the bar where it happened.
“I don’t think he sees anything wrong with what he did,” Lang said.
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