CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An apparent assault victim dismissed a police officer’s attempt to glean information from him by saying that “Cleveland happened,” according to a police report.

The man refused to provide any information to officers who found him bleeding from his left leg Saturday at the Good Times Café on East 55th Street at Drake Avenue, in the Slavic Village neighborhood, police reports say.

The man was already injured when he walked into the bar about 10 p.m. and tried to order a drink. The bartender saw him bleeding and thought he’d been shot.

Officers initially responded to a report of a man who suffered a gunshot wound, but MetroHealth doctors later determined the man had five severe lacerations on his left leg, rather than a gunshot wound, police reports say.

Cleveland police officers came to investigate, but the man refused to say how he got his injuries and where they happened. He only told them that “Cleveland happened,” and that he just wanted a drink, police reports say.

The man did not have an ID on him. Doctors sedated him at MetroHealth, so investigators could not interview him at the hospital.

Detectives from Cleveland’s Third District are investigating.

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