White Medical Intern Viciously Attacked by Woman-Hating Black Inmate

NY Daily News
April 20, 2014

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Surveillance footage shows Rikers Island mental health intern Stephanie Prochelli getting assaulted by a Black inmate. Joseph McRae faces charges after the attack.

A violent Rikers Island inmate jailed on charges of assaulting a woman viciously beat a 24-year-old medical intern, breaking her jaw and causing numerous facial fractures, officials said Thursday.

Joseph McRae’s unprovoked 11:30 a.m. attack Wednesday on Stephanie Porcelli in the East River lockup’s George R. Vierno Center was caught on a security camera.

The video, observed by the Daily News, shows the petite Porcelli getting pounded once in the face by a powerful right-handed sucker punch thrown by the 5-foot-9, 150-pound McRae.

The tape shows Porcelli, wearing a white lab coat and carrying a clipboard in her right hand, reaching to open a door to an office McRae was standing next to. As she approached the door, McRae feigned a punch, apparently prompting Porcelli to say something to him.

When she reached for the office doorknob, he hit her with a right roundhouse blow to the face, sending her sprawling backward onto the cement floor. As McRae hovered over her, a guard rushed to stop the attack.

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Stephanie Prochelli, a White medical intern, was blindsided by the Black beast while walking through the Rikers mental health unit.

Porcelli was set to go into surgery Friday at Booth Memorial Hospital in Queens.

“Her injuries are actually a broken jaw and multiple facial fractures,” a source said. Stephanie Prochelli, a 24-year-old medical intern, was blindsided by McRae while walking through the Rikers mental health unit.

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