A “brilliant” cardiothoracic surgeon has died two weeks after being pinned to the ground in a brutal Brooklyn street attack.

dr Jaime Yun, 56, a beloved married father of two, died June 16 from a traumatic brain injury sustained in a violent brawl on June 8 just miles from the hospital where he worked.

Yun, a respected and gifted surgeon, was in his vehicle on the corner of Schenectady and East New York Avenues in Crown Heights at around 11:30 p.m. when a verbal argument broke out between him and motorcyclist Dexter Alexander, 31.

According to police, Yun hit the side mirror of Alexander’s motorcycle with a stick, and Alexander reportedly hit Yun in the face, causing him to hit the sidewalk, Daily News reported.

When paramedics arrived, they found Yun on the ground with a severe head injury. They took him to King County Hospital where he was initially expected to survive until his health deteriorated and he died days later.

dr Jaime Yun, 56, a victim of a street attack in Crown Heights Brooklyn earlier this month, succumbed to his injuries and died June 16

Heartbroken by his sudden and senseless death, family and friends described him as “brilliant” and someone who “excelled in everything he did.” He is survived by his wife Tyan, children Christopher and Lauren, and five brothers Alfonso, Julio, Enrique, Fernando and Jairo, their wives and several nieces and nephews. His parents, Yen Yu Yun Chang and Cecilia Yun Yee, predeceased him

Yun’s death was ruled a homicide by the city’s coroner and Alexander was arrested and charged with assault.

It’s unclear whether the assault charges against Alexander will be aggravated after Yun’s death, the New York Post reported.

Yun was a dedicated heart surgeon, served his community, and worked at a hospital in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Heartbroken by his sudden and senseless death, family and friends described him as “brilliant” and someone who “excelled in everything he did.”

He emigrated from Colombia with his parents and five brothers in the 1970s and was a model student and an achiever from an early age.

Yun attended Bronx Science High School after finishing top in his elementary school and graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University before attending New York University Medical School.

One of his medical professors gave him the nickname “99” because, according to his obituary, his exam scores were always in the 99th percentile.

Yun enjoyed being a mentor and loved being in the operating room teaching medical students to be a better version of themselves, his loved ones said.

He was also known for his quirky sense of humor and was usually the first to laugh at his own jokes.

Yun was a devoted family and an exceptional cardiac surgeon. One of his neighbors called him an “amazing person”

“Family was everything to Jaime, and his children were the light of his life.” “He beamed with pride after his two children attended his alma mater and was excited to talk about his days as a Lion,” says his Obituary.

For the past five years, he has been visiting campus often to hang out at his son’s sorority house and watch his daughter play lacrosse. “He was an enthusiastic spectator and his enthusiasm was contagious to many people on the sidelines.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, his family, his Manhasset neighbors and his patients described him as “selfless.”

Neighbor Vihas Patel called him an “amazing human being”.

He is survived by his wife Tyan, children Christopher and Lauren, and five brothers Alfonso, Julio, Enrique, Fernando and Jairo, their wives and several nieces and nephews. His parents, Yen Yu Yun Chang and Cecilia Yun Yee, predeceased him.

A wake was held at the Fairchild Funeral Home in Manhasset on Friday, followed by his funeral at the chapel. A private burial was held in Flushing Cemetery on Sunday.

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won a district election for the first time, overtaking Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats in nationwide polls, raising concerns about a broader rise for the populist party in the upcoming elections.

AfD candidate Robert Stuhlmann won a runoff election on Sunday in Sonneberg in Thuringia against the incumbent District Administrator Jürgen Köpper from the centre-right CDU – against other parties such as the Social Democrats (SPD). Greens and Free Democrats support the CDU candidate.

“I am dismayed by the result in Sonneberg,” said Katrin Göring-Eckardt, member of the Greens, who is also deputy chairwoman of the Bundestag. “Thank you to everyone who continues to fight to keep this county democratic, open-minded and friendly.”

However, she added that Sonneberg – which is one of Germany’s smallest districts with only around 48,000 eligible voters – cannot be compared to the rest of Thuringia and certainly not to the country as a whole, she added.

Still, the far-right victory in local elections – which have been heavily overshadowed by national issues such as a controversial green electricity law – comes amid a broader AfD surge in national polls: The latest data from POLITICO’s Poll of Polls, which averages nationwide polls, shows that the AfD has overtaken Scholz’s SPD as the second most popular political party in Germany.

The extreme right is particularly strong in the states of the former GDR, which despite reunification continue to record lower rates of employment and economic development. The AfD is currently leading in polls in the eastern states of Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia, where elections will be held next year.

Most recently, the party managed to win voters by opposing the rising number of migrants and the government’s plans to promote green energy, particularly through a new law banning gas and oil heating in new buildings.

Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish community in Munich and Upper Bavaria, reacted to the right-wing extremist victory in Sonneberg with the words: “The danger for the Jewish community and other minorities has long been real.”

The AfD has also promoted anti-Semitic clichés, as a study by the American Jewish Committee shows.

In view of the widespread criticism that the controversy over the federal government’s heating law had contributed to the rise of right-wing extremists, Scholz’ spokesman Steffen Hebestreit replied that the government had “a clear concept” for the green turn and was “on the right track, but we. ” are not there yet.”

In a barely veiled reference to the AfD, Hebestreit also warned that “playing groups off against each other and perhaps also blaming migrants for something they are not responsible for is certainly not a recipe that would lead this country to a good future.” .”

Scholz acknowledged in a speech last week that the green transition “won’t be easy” and stressed that the government must “provide compelling answers” to citizens worried about potentially costly moves to move Germany away from fossil fuels.

“Otherwise, those who engage in politics out of public fear and a bad mood will become even more popular,” said the Chancellor.

The unstable situation in Russia alarmed NATO, which immediately took cover. “Russia is an unpredictable and dangerous neighbor. “That is the biggest problem and that is where the dangers for a country like ours arise from,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis warned on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg. “Our allies,” continued the Lithuanian government representative, “would say that it would take a long time to gather troops to do something dangerous on the NATO border.” But now let’s see how quickly it can be done can: It took half a day for a military commando to come within 200 km of Moscow. So – he says again after Prigozhin’s coup with Wagner’s men – imagine how quickly they can cross Belarus and emerge at the border with Lithuania. Therefore, we call on our allies to take the situation very seriously in view of everything that is happening in Russia and to draw up very concrete plans to strengthen the eastern flank.”

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NATO did not stand by and responded immediately to the call for help. In fact, Germany has decided to station an additional 4,000 troops in Lithuania to help secure the eastern flank of the Atlantic Alliance. The military will be permanently stationed in Lithuania. Lithuania already has one of eight “combat groups” deployed by NATO to strengthen the alliance’s eastern flank in response to Moscow’s 2014 aggression in eastern Ukraine. Germany is the country coordinating the armed forces deployed to the Baltics by Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Holland, Norway, Portugal and USA.

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