Last Friday night, a prominent Columbia University professor was arrested after he sucker punch a fellow professor at a New York City bar during an intense argument about race, a NYPD spokesperson said.

According to reports, Professor Lionel McIntyre and Camille Davis, a production manager at Columbia’s theater department, were having drinks at a popular university bar in Harlem when McIntyre, who is black, started talking about “white privilege” with Davis, who is white and another white patron.

Witnesses said all of a sudden McIntyre, who is known as “Mac,” shoved Davis and when the other patron and a bar employee tried to break it up; the architecture professor hit Davis in the face.

The third party said he then yelled to McIntyre “You don’t hit a woman!” and 59-year-old professor knocked his glasses off.

It is believed that several weeks prior to the altercation at Toast,  McIntyre and Davis were involved in another heated race discussion.

McIntyre was released without bail at his arraignment last night

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