Common Council candidate Lukee Forbes speaks during a rally outside the Executive Mansion in Albany for Marcy Correctional Facility inmate Robert L. Brooks, who died on Dec. 10 after he was beaten by correction officers.

ALBANY — The victim of a brutal beating is speaking out and asking that residents of the city’s Third Ward not vote for a man involved in his attack.

Louis Stelling, who was left for dead in the Park South neighborhood after attending the city’s 2010 gay pride parade, on Saturday posted a video on YouTube that, he said, was intended as a response to the possible election of Lukee Forbes and the column I wrote about how the candidacy is testing the limits of forgiveness.

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“He completely derailed my life,” Stelling said, adding that a vote for Forbes would show disrespect to Albany’s many victims of violent crime.

Stelling, a part-time language professor, was beaten beyond recognition — “from head to toe,” he says — in the Park South neighborhood. In the 34-minute video, he ruefully notes that the only........

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