US Man brutally gang-bashed while trying to help his community
A US man has shared a heartbreaking video diary after he was gang bashed while trying to restore a community centre for his struggling neighbourhood.
Ronald Moon Jr uploaded the video to YouTube overnight, which has been seen more than 5000 times.
In it he says it’s his first video he has made and probably the hardest one he will ever have to make.
Battered and bruised with a bloodied face, Mr Moon explains that he was in the process of restoring a house his father owned, on the same street he lived on.
He said for the last six months he had been working hard to turn it into a community centre for his neighbourhood in Cincinnati, as he felt the people in his area could use the help.
“It needed a lot of work,” he said.
“I’ve been over there putting in hours and hours.”
Unfortunately since he’s started, he said the center had been broken into numerous times.
Just half an hour before recording the video, Mr Moon said he went to do some work at the center when he came across a group of people trying to break in.
“I was attacked by three young men and two young women who I encountered while attempting to break into a home I am restoring to convert into a Community Centre for the neighbuorhood of Evanston in Cincinnati, Ohio,” he said.
“This is what they did to me,” he says, referring to his shocking injuries as he breaks down in tears.
“I want to try and do something good for my people. I’m just trying to do the best I can for my people.”
“I’m tired of seeing this hurt.”
“The pain we feel is real, the hurt we feel is real.”
Despite the attack he said he still loved his community and the people who lived in it.
Since releasing the video Mr Moon has since started a Go Fund Me profile to raise money to get the center up and running and benefiting his community.
“I am in good health and my wounds will heal in time but the goal to offer this neighborhood a resource it can benefit from remains my primary focus,” he said in the post.
“The goal I have is to offer this place as a space where ideas, skills, and resources can be shared among this neighborhood and with surrounding neighborhoods in Cincinnati.”
He said the center would offer classes such as creative writing, dance, gardening, music engineering, computing, craft, carpentry and more.
“If someone can teach it and another can learn it, it is precisely what this place would be interested in housing.”
Mr Moon said he quit his job earlier this year to devote himself to the center, but he had struggled to ask for help.
“I realize that everyone cannot offer 100 percent or even sometimes 10 percent of their time…This is worth it and I can make the sacrifice but I seriously need help”.
“Any donation would be extremely appreciated and will go directly to restoration cost, application fees, and food for volunteers,” he added at the bottom of the plea for help.
So far the page has raised almost $10,000 in just five hours with more than 400 people signing up to help.
Read Ronald Moon’s full story here on his Go Fund Me
