Student's mouth stapled, jaw broken in alleged hate crime

Student's mouth stapled, jaw broken in alleged hate crime | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:

"DETROIT (USA TODAY) — A 19-year-old Michigan State University student is recovering Tuesday after surgery overnight for a broken jaw his family says stems from a brutal hate crime.

Two men at a party early Sunday attacked Zachary Tennen, a journalism sophomore at MSU, after asking whether he was Jewish, his parents, Tina Tennen and Bruce Tennen said Tuesday.

They raised their arms in a Nazi salute, chanting "Heil Hitler" and then knocked Tennen unconscious, Tina Tennen said.

While he was out, the men stapled his mouth, putting a staple into his gums while about 20 people watched, she said.

Zachary told police the two men then "stapled me in the back side of my bottom teeth, starting in my gums and going upwards," his father read Tuesday from Zachary's statement to East Lansing Police.

"I've never heard of anything so horrific," said Bruce Tennen, whose father was longtime Third Circuit Court Judge Harvey F. Tennen, who died in 2011. "The whole thing is unconscionable, what they did to him.""

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