Zachary Tennen, the 19-year-old Jewish Michigan State University student who alleged he was assaulted last month because of his religion, was punched after repeatedly harassing and inappropriately touching women at an East Lansing house party, according to a story by Brandon Howell of Mlive.
Howell's story was based on a police report that was obtained by the MLive Media Group from the East Lansing Police Department by way of a Freedom of Information Act request.
Not one of 50 witnesses interviewed recalled any Nazi- or Ku Klux Klan-related statements made by anyone in attendance. Several witnesses recounted Tennen harassing multiple women at the party. He made many passes at one particular woman, according to the report, who asked her friend, an 18-year-old Farmington Hills man, to intervene. The man was originally developed as a suspect in Tennen's assault by East Lansing police.
The man, among others, warned Tennen several times to stop bothering his friend and other women at the party. Then, his friend was sitting outside, sick from alcohol consumption, when Tennen approached her again.
