One of New York Cy's newt gay bars has had a brick thrown at s ont wdow four tim recent weeks, s owner says.
Contents:
- 'ARE YOU GAY, THOUGH?' VIO SHOWS MAN THROWG PUNCH POSSIBLE BIAS ATTACK
- BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
- GOME PHOTOS ALLEGEDLY SHOW ISLAMIC STATE THROWG GAY MEN OFF A TALL BUILDG
'ARE YOU GAY, THOUGH?' VIO SHOWS MAN THROWG PUNCH POSSIBLE BIAS ATTACK
Salt Lake Cy police have intified the spect an alleged hate crime ught on mera over the reported attack occurred early Sunday morng downtown Salt Lake Cy, jt three blocks south of the Salt Lake Temple, the center of the Church of J Christ of Latter Day Trejo, 29, said he was leavg a bar when he overheard someone near him talkg on the phone about standg near a gay person. “It started wh him approachg out of the blue and makg homophobic and misogynistic ments towards our group, ” Trejo wrote a statement posted to Twter.
"A vio Trejo posted to Twter appears to show a young man askg him, "Are you gay, though?, " to which Trejo, who is off mera, n be heard rpondg, "Oh, I am. " The man then says, "All right then, you're gay, " as he throws a punch. "State Senator Derek Kchen, who is gay and reprents District 2, which vers downtown Salt Lake Cy where the attack occurred, said, "Hate crim are pecially bad bee they have two victims: the dividual who is attacked, and also the muny who they reprent.
22, 2022, 12:31 AM UTCOne of New York Cy's newt gay bars has had a brick thrown at s ont wdow four tim recent weeks, s owner says.
BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
The latt cint, jt this past weekend, is beg vtigated as a hate crime, the New York Police Department taken Saturday night and verified by NBC News shows a person, whom thori are still tryg to intify, hurlg a brick at the ont wdow of VERS, a gay bar loted on Nth Avenue that opened July. Erik Bottcher, a New York Cy uncil member who reprents Hell’s Kchen and is gay, lled the cints “hate crim” a tweet on Sunday and urged anyone wh rmatn that uld intify the perpetrator to reach out to the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force. “A well-known gay bar on Manhattan’s wt si has been attacked repeatedly recent weeks.
GOME PHOTOS ALLEGEDLY SHOW ISLAMIC STATE THROWG GAY MEN OFF A TALL BUILDG
”The attacks e as the NYPD also vtigat a seri of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year after they left Hell’s Kchen gay bars, the NYPD nfirmed this month. The brick that was thrown at VERS did shatter the glass but sred patrons Wrabetz / NBC NewsOn the other si of the untry, wh hours of the cint at VERS on Saturday, a gunman Colorado Sprgs opened fire at a gay nightclub, leavg five ad and 19 wound. While DeParola strsed that his bar is a safe place and that no one was hurt durg any of the cints volvg his tablishment, he said he also feels the untry is a moment of “embolned anti-gay, anti-trans rurgence.