23-year-old Spencer Stone, one of three Americans who gained worldwide attention in August after dismantling a terrorist attack on a French train, was stabbed in a fight on Wednesday evening–outside a gay bar in Sacramento, CA, where he resides.
NBC News reports that Airman First Class Stone is currently in stable condition, although he was stabbed several times and suffered what police called “non life-threatening but very significant injuries.”
Stone had been carousing with four friends — three women and another man — when he got embroiled in an altercation with two or more men. He was stabbed repeatedly with a box-cutter last evening after leaving the popular gay nightclub Badlands in downtown Sacramento.
The fight began around 12:45am EST. According to Deputy Chief Ken Bernard of Sacramento Police, the incident was “an altercation between two groups of folks who were enjoying the nightlife. This was not related to terrorism in any way and we know it was not related to what happened in France.”
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The two suspects bolted from the scene in a late-model Toyota Camry, and have been described as Asian males who were both wearing blue jeans and white T-shirts.
Stone, who received France’s Legion d’Honneur for restraining the two suspected terrorists in August, needed surgery to reattach part of his hand.
Watch surveillance footage capturing the attack below:
Andrew Harvey
Wth is going on with people. Everyone is going to be different from you, get over it and move on. Without diversity the world would be a boring place.
Alan Vest
Sacramento is so nasty. Nothing but hood rats.
William Adkins
Those are utopian ideas, guys! Kanye can’t sell clothes because he’s perceived as straight. You tell the 50-yo what wrong with this picture….
moldisdelicious
Notice how queerty literally has ignored the death of a black Transgendered woman in philly. Smh.
bicurious
What kind of person could cut up such a pretty, not to mention heroic, young man?
Taskebab
That’s crazy…one of the other guys in the Thalys shooting was involved in the Oregon shooting last week…they somehow find themselves in dangerous situations all the time…
Evji108
@William Adkins: Kanye can’t sell his clothes because Post Apocalyptic Concentration Camp Yoga Wear is not a viable fashion concept. It has nothing to do with him being perceived as straight, it has to do with him not having a clue about designing and selling apparel.
Peter McKinney
Is he gay or not?
KiraNerysRules
Wait. Why are we talking about Kanye West? Lol
Joseph T.D. Anaya
I truly hope they capture whoever these cowards are and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law, a man who saved people from an attempted terrorist act deserves so much better treatment than this.
Mark Johnson
Was he in the gay bar or near it? Ect. Don’t jump to conclusions. Seems like conservative national enquirer reporting to me. A mile away and there was a gay bar to blame??? Bullshit.
bicurious
It is kind of awesome to find out we might be able to claim yet another gay super hero following in the great footsteps of Daniel Hernandez and Mark Bingham. At least I’m assuming Spencer Stone is family since she was at a gay bar and I always suspected she might be from the first photos I saw of her. Is there any confirmation out there?
Blackceo
@bicurious:
Why are you referring to him with female pronouns? Not toward you per se but I cannot stand when a guy says to me “hey girl” or “yes girl” or “yes mama”. I have a dick and I identify as a male, or a cisgender male or whatever the fuck label of the week Im supposed to go by given that my gender identity matches with my biological identity. And no I don’t have a stick up my ass but what is the deal behind that? I never quite understood it.
Sansacro
@moldisdelicious:
yeah, true, but that doesn’t mitigate the messed-up crime against Stone, which is equally distressing as far as I’m concerned.
That said:
“Jenkins’ death is the 18th homicide of a transgender person of color in America this year, and the 20th transgender killing overall in 2015, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in partnership with the Trans People of Color Coalition.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/spike-in-transgender-murders-this-year-2015-10
Sansacro
@moldisdelicious: Further, from same source http://www.businessinsider.com/spike-in-transgender-murders-this-year-2015-10:
“In this country, you’re more likely to face violence if you’re transgender. You’re also more likely to face violence if you’re black or if you’re Latino or Latina. You’re also more likely to face violence if you’re young. You’re more likely to face violence if you’re poor. You’re more likely to face violence if you’re a sex worker. And you’re more likely to face violence if you’re an immigrant,” Keisling explains.
Data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics confirms some of Keisling’s claims.
1.4% of all African-Americans age 12 and older were the victims of violent crime in 2014, compared to 1.1% of whites. 1.7% of all people age 12 to 17 were the victims of violent crime in 2014, the highest of any age group studied (1.6% of all 18-24 year olds were victims of violent crime in 2014). In addition, roughly 40 per 1000 people age 12 and older identified as “poor” are the victims of violent crime, according to a BJS study on poverty and violent victimization. By comparison, only 21 per 1000 people identified as “mid-income” are victimized by violent crime, and only 17 per 1000 people identified as “high-income” are victims of violent crime.
Bisexual-Transwoman
@moldisdelicious: Yes they have but this “news” site is a joke and focuses more on the clerk from Kentucky, porn, and obsession over hetero men somehow having sex with bi and gay men than things that really matter to LGBT people.
inbama
@Blackceo:
Gay men referring to each other with female pronouns was standard pre-Stonewall gay culture. We also referred to each other as “Mary,” and everyone was sdome kind of “queen” – drag queens, rice queens, sandwich queens, bitchy queens,drama queens, etc.
It long predates those tiresome trans notions of “misgendering” and “pronoun abuse.”
In those days when you had to “pass” as straight, you’d “butch it up” when you needed to and “camped it up” with your friends. Butch, fem, top, bottom – for gay men, gender was not an “identity,” but a playground.
Certainly I don’t long to live under oppressive circumstances, but it’s sad watching gays and lesbians devolve into letters in a humorless alphabet soup where the standard of behavior is to cling to our self-limiting “authentic selves,” parading the oversized chips on our shoulders and taking offense when none is intended.
Oppression taught us to treasure and create art.
Now we create genders.
Sluggo2007
@moldisdelicious: But you still can’t get the hint, can you?
Sluggo2007
@Peter McKinney: Does it matter, asswipe?
Jim Corbett
No one deserves this
Cam
@moldisdelicious:
Really? How about this one, notice how Trans activists will even use the stabbing of a hero as an excuse to attack gays?
Shouldn’t you be spending your time lying and trying to erase heroic black lesbians from the history of the Stonewall riots? Or did you get tired of that?
Joe
@inbama:
Well said and so true!
JessPH
I don’t think he’s gay. He was probably pressured by his girl friends to hang out in a gay bar with them. He got so drunk that he started insulting and pissing off the gay patrons of the bar. And that’s how the fight started.
BJ McFrisky
@Blackceo: Amen to that. The last guy who called me a “she” got a drink thrown right in his face (nah, just kidding, we beat the shit out of him).
Joe
@JessPH:
Your post is based on assumption, correct?
I wish Spencer Stone a speedy recovery.
takingliberties
What did he do to provoke these people?
Cam
@takingliberties:
So it’s his fault?
FitChicago
It’s astonishing that WITHOUT ANY FACTS that a narrative is already presented and people act like they know exactly what happened.
FACT: It is not known if Spencer Stone is a victim or a bully; it is not clear whether he is the one who escalated the situation to violence or the other folks involved.
FACT: Being in a gay bar does NOT mean you’re gay. Stone may be gay, he may be bi or he may be straight; who cares. However no one has raised the possibility that the others involved in this incident are gay/bi or that the incident was a result of an unwanted advance by a gay man to a potentially straight Stone which was responded to with anger… WE DON’T KNOW! But we do know that based on the consistency that early reporting of incidents is more often inaccurate than it is accurate.
FACT: Being a hero one day does NOT make you a hero every day. Every human being is flawed, each of us can do something heroic at various times but none of us are heroic 24/7.
Please stop jumping to conclusions and please start to ask questions because none of us know exactly what happened.
mz.sam
Fellow French train attack hero, Alek Skarlatos immediately flew to UCC Roseburg, Ore. from his Dancing With The Stars rehearsal to check on fellow students after shooting incident. But after hearing of best friend, Spencer Stone’s stabbing near Badlands/Faces nightclub Alek sends (from Los Angeles) his prayers and thoughts to Spencer’s safe and speedy recovery. And back to dance rehearsal taping.
CaliKyle
This article though, such shitty writing and editing. “…got embroiled?” Did the writer pass Freshmen English in college or did he blow it off all year? The two Asian suspects stabbed Stone with box cutters? I haven’t heard or read anywhere that the weapon had been specifically determined but what IS accurate and has been reported in multiple news outlets is that Stone nearly lost his thumb when the SINGLE suspected terrorist (not TWO suspected terrorists as this article wrongly states)involved in the French train debacle attacked Stone with a box cutter while the airman was restraining him.
muscular
This is what happens when a populous is disarmed. It is nearly impossible to obtain a concealed carry permit in California. Spencer would not be fighting for his life if he could have drawn a loaded pistol and shot these bashers. He is in the military to fight for our constitution and what it stands for. It is a disgrace that he cannot have his full constitutional freedoms in California.
Cam
@muscular:
He is active duty military he can carry, so please stop lying to push your agenda.
Keebler ILF
@muscular:
It’s hard to tell from the video where his friends are in that crowd.
But during the fight, he appeared to be outnumbered. If he AND his attackers had guns he would probably be dead.
He had a better chance surviving being “stabbed repeatedly” than being
shot repeatedly.
Curty
Damn this guy has been through enough… hope he is ok.. and go lay in bed a month to heal… Damn.. smh
Brian
The gay bar Badlands reportedly has a straight night on Wednesdays, the night of this assault. What self-respecting gay bar has a straight night? If true, I think it’s outrageous that a gay bar would market itself as gay most nights and straight on others. Talk about segregation.
I’ve always said that gay and straight were designed to divide us. Looks like they’ve succeeded.
Oh, and here’s the link the newspapers report on Badlands’ straight night:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3266326/Train-terror-hero-Spencer-Stone-stabbed-trying-protect-girl-punched-boyfriend-Sacramento-gay-club-s-straight-night-fled-attackers.html
Saint Law
@BJ McFrisky: Oh my lol. A seven year old girl could take you out and your ‘friends’.
Saint Law
@Brian: You do find a lot of newspapers. But I guess that goes with living in a dumpster.
Saint Law
Also didn’t he attend that college where they had the mass-shooting?
So he was basically safer on a train with a tooled up terrorist than at school and on the streets of America.
Curty
@Brian: I know of some bars that have gay and straight nights in my city… the paradox does that. Have gay nights on weekends…
BOB K
@Saint Law:
No. that was the other blonde one
BOB K
His group came from the Gay bar — which plays music on Wednesdays attracting a straight crowd — where he was recognized and applauded
In the parking lot, they found a woman being hit by members of (presumably) an Asian gang.
One of the men stabbed Spencer while he tried to stop them.
The bad guys and the woman fled in the same car
LibraOracle
Well heterosexuals are the majority so any battle against them could be fatal unless we actually actually unite and fight back instead of running away,I will devour alive anyone that try to harm me as my natural instinct programmed me to defend my life against any predators
Ridpathos
Sacramento is a shit-hole. So glad to be out of there,