A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday.
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Police busted Lionel McIntyre, 59, for assault yesterday after his bruised victim, Camille Davis, filed charges.
McIntyre and Davis, who works as a production manager in the school’stheater department, are both regulars at Toast, a popular universitybar on Broadway and 125th Street, sources said.
The professor,who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about “whiteprivilege” with Davis, who is white, and another male regular, who isalso white, Friday night at 10:30 when fists started flying, patronssaid.
McIntyre, who is known as “Mac” at the bar, shoved Davis, and whenthe other patron and a bar employee tried to break it up, the profslugged Davis in the face, witnesses said.
“The punch was soloud, the kitchen workers in the back heard it over all the noise,” barback Richie Velez, 28, told The Post. “I was on my way over when hepunched Camille and she fell on top of me.”
The other patron involved in the dispute said McIntyre then took a swing at him after he yelled, “You don’t hit a woman!”
“He knocked the glasses right off my face,” said the man, who wouldonly give his first name as “Shannon.” “The punch came out of nowhere.Mac was talking to us about white privilege and what I was doing aboutit — apparently I wasn’t doing enough.”
McIntyre hadsquabbled with Davis several weeks earlier over issues involving race,witnesses said. As soon as the professor threw the punch Friday, serverRob Dalton and another employee tossed him out.
“It was a realsucker punch,” Dalton said. “Camille’s a great lady, always nice toeverybody, and doesn’t deserve anything like this.”
Davis wasspotted wearing sunglasses yesterday to conceal the black eye. Reachedat her Columbia office, she declined to comment on the alleged attack.
McIntyre was released without bail at his arraignment last night.
“It was a very unfortunate event,” he said afterwards. “I didn’t mean for it to explode the way it did.”