A gay man in Alabama man says he was violently attacked outside of a bar but that police left a significant chunk of the story out of the official report.
At a press conference held at the Free2be Safe offices in Huntsville, AL, Gary Bravo (pictured) said two men shouted antigay slurs as they pummeled him as he tried he tried to come to the aid of friend.
According to Bravo, however, police neglected to include the hate inspired language in the report on the incident.
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“You’re an officer of the law,” Bravo scolded. “You should not object to putting something in a report. Everything should be taken down. It should not be ignored just because I’m a gay man and you don’t want to hear it.”
Darryl Lawson of Huntsville PD denied the details were left out because Bravo is gay, saying the department doesn’t include “he said this, she said that” narratives in reports.
Since Alabama’s hate crime law doesn’t include sexual orientation, the antigay slurs wouldn’t be a factor in the case anyway, he said.
“It would still be an assault-second charge,” Lawson said. “The only time the hate crime law comes into play is as an enhancement to whatever the sentencing is.”
Bravo, meanwhile, has been “in and out of doctor’s offices non-stop” for the past week.
He said that no matter one’s beliefs, everyone should see the doubly damaging effect of hate inspired language.
“Because beating someone up [verbally] after they’ve already been beat up, you’re kicking someone when they’re down,” he said.
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ThisChrisGuy84
I hope this man can get justice for this horrible atrocity of a crime!
Also, dear Queerty editors…would it kill you folks to do a bit of grammar checking before you post articles?
Just saying…
BJ McFrisky
Yes, yes, we know the perpetually outraged Left believes law enforcement is made up exclusively of rac1st, white h0m0ph0bes (can’t believe Queerty still won’t allow those words), however . . . the REAL crime in this story is the lack of proofreading that would have taken an editor two minutes to accomplish before allowing something that resembles the efforts of a second-grader to be published online.
Bauhaus
@ThisChrisGuy84:
Folks have thoughts, they may not be familiar with grammar. The thought is more important. Just saying.
I share your sentiment, and hope this man can get justice.
Cagnazzo82
@BJ McFrisky: I would honestly take the grammatical errors of a second-grader any day over the perpetual mentality of one carried on well into adulthood.
Bauhaus
@Bauhaus:
Short of “word salad” [Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman], I’m not a grammar N@zi. I’m more interested in what people have to say, than where they put their who/whom, commas, I/me. Rants are where folks go off the rails, comprehension wise.
Bauhaus
@Cagnazzo82:
Goaaaaaaaaaaal!
darian
@BJ McFrisky: Oh bitch please The only crime queerty it’s guilty of is not banning your dumbass….yet.
AtticusBennett
police forces the world over still need stronger sensitivity training and diversity workshops.
I’ve seen firsthand, in NYC, a cop utterly dismiss a perpetrator of a hate crime, not even taking his information, while acting utterly blasé about the assault committed on two gay men simply for being gay.
BJ McFrisky
@AtticusBennett: Yeah, but I bet you won’t hesitate to call the evil, horrible, hateful po-po when you need them.
Cop-hating libs are nothing if not predictable.
Cam
@BJ McFrisky:
And once again, according to BJ, anybody gay, even if they have been beaten and are having to go under medical care, are the attackers, and the people who are anti-gay are the victims.
Yes, BJ, we get, it, if you attack gays enough, maybe your buddies at Log Cabin will be allowed to use the side entrance through the kitchen at the next CPAC convention.
Hows that working out for you?
darian
@BJ McFrisky: why don’t you and the rest of the log cabin queens take your collective 2 cents and go over to breitbart I’m sure your jaded asses will fit in just fine. That is until one of you bitches slips up and says your gay.
AtticusBennett
guys, go easy on him. BJ could die tonight, and his father wouldn’t shed a single tear. and he knows it.
pity him, for all the joy and love he will never, ever know. ever. EVER.
Bauhaus
@Cam:
Stockholm syndrome. BJ and some others on here are still tied to their mother’s apron strings. Throw in daddy’s disapproval… Sad.
ait10101
@BJ McFrisky: That is dumb. No reason to think this. The guy made a big deal of it to highlight that Alabama has no antihate legislation against gays. Good on him.
DarkZephyr
@BJ McFrisky: Do you even care what happened to this guy? Of course we will still call the police if we need them. But how does that mean that we should be OK with discrimination? When I am sick I still need a doctor, but that doesn’t mean I will be OK with one who is guilty of malpractice. C’mon. Don’t you EVER care about your LGBT brothers and sisters?
darian
Thumbs up to you guys trying to bring reason to the unreasonable. I’ve seen many try all have fail.
BJ McFrisky
My apologies to the perpetually outraged . . .
I was off-topic, relegating my comment to reflect my disdain for liberal politics and the “hate crimes” legislation they perpetuate, when the real issue at hand is the welfare of this young man. Of course I have sympathy for him, and the cop involved should absolutely be reprimanded.
polarisfashion
@DarkZephyr: I wish I could give your comments a thumbs up and some other people on here a middle finger up! This guy gets beat up for being gay and unfortunately it’s not a hate crime in his State. With marriage equality for all a real possibility, we have to remember our fight isn’t over yet!
I don’t like the excuse the police are using for not making a better report. They still could have said that the victim was being verbally assaulted while being physically battered. Not good enough but better than not mentioning it at all. Why is it so difficult for people to just do the right thing for once?
JCG
@BJ McFrisky: Since your comments are perpetually full of outrage, does that make all cons(ervatives) predictable, too?
DarkZephyr
@polarisfashion: Thank you very much. 🙂
Giancarlo85
@BJ McFrisky: You’re a bullshit artist foaming at the mouth. What left? Why do you need to make this political? A guy was beaten nearly to death and this all you have to say? You have some serious mental problems including delusions of grandeur. And considering your posts are riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, you shouldn’t be criticizing anyone else. You can’t even construct a proper sentence.
Giancarlo85
@BJ McFrisky: Oh that’s so sweet. You care about the welfare of this young man? Then why do you support right wing shitbags who basically enable this sort of violence? Why do you have to make this political? Hate crimes are ones that are more stiff because of the motive. They are proven effective laws. This is a fact.
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: *Correction: Hate crime convictions.
Saint Law
@BJ McFrisky: “My apologies to the perpetually outraged.”
Have you ever met you?
Saint Law
@BJ McFrisky: “…I was off topic, relegating my comment to reflect my disdain for liberal politics and the ‘hate crimes’ legislation they perpetuate…”
Bitch smokes ten spliffs and thinks she’s Henry James.
Your prose is a hate crime against language.
Saint Law
@BJ McFrisky: “Cop hating libs are nothing if not predictable.”
I’m not a liberal and I hate the police, specifically the American police. They’re insane. The enforcers of a ‘criminal justice’ system that is a standing joke among the more civilised nations of Europe.
Cam
@BJ McFrisky:
Anything that attacks or hurts gays is supported by BJ, that is how he proves he isn’t one of those “Bad Gays” to his anti-gay friends and family apparently.
BJ McFrisky
@Saint Law: said, “I hate the police.” To paraphrase: “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want em? Now!” Congrats, you’re officially an accessory to murder every time some ghetto slug kills a cop because he, too, hates the police. What’s next on your progressive agenda, joining ISIS?
ps – Silly foreigner, I don’t smoke spliffs, I vaporize. What do you think I am, some kind of common European?
Saint Law
@BJ McFrisky: Ooh somebody got stung.
‘Paraphrasing’ doesn’t mean inserting your own jibber jabber in somebody else’s mouth you paralysed prat.
And by your own reckoning you’re accessory to many, many more murders than I am.
Saint Law
@Cam: One might more profitably debate with lint.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
Is there an ignore button on this site? I come here and it’s the same trolls again and again and again posting the same homophobia. This site does nothing to control trolls.
Giancarlo85
@BJ McFrisky: The cops in various US cities are extremely corrupt and only serve their own interests. They also are trigger happy and increasingly militarized. You should know better.
“you’re officially an accessory to murder every time some ghetto slug kills a cop because he, too, hates the police.”
You’re an idiot. He never said that nor did anyone who dislikes the police.
” What’s next on your progressive agenda, joining ISIS?
Oh considering republicans helped create ISIS you better rethink that statement. And yes republicans did create ISIS by invading Iraq and leaving it a huge mess.
Giancarlo85
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: BJ is not only a self hating homophobe, he’s a xenophobe too and bashes on foreigners.
I too wish there was an ignore feature… or that he would actually get banned off here. His presence is disgusting.
BJ McFrisky
@Saint Law: “Stung”? By the likes of you? Little girl, I eat people like you for breakfast and puke ’em up for lunch. It takes a lot more than a catty, vindictive euro-queen to get my goat. You’re not even an American, which means you’re not even a real person. Now excuse me while I enjoy my $2.50/gallon gas, awesome California weather, too-hot-to-describe other half, and unbridled American freedoms.
Giancarlo85
@BJ McFrisky: You couldn’t damage anyone. You can’t even construct a coherent argument about… anything. And please GTFO of California. We don’t like lunatics. We keep lunatics out of office in this great state, unless you’re in f-cking Twin Peaks. You probably reside in the same place as Tim Donnelly. Other half? A blow-up doll?
And what “unbridled” American “freedoms”? Go move to Tennessee or something.
Giancarlo85
” You’re not even an American, which means you’re not even a real person.
Oh and this says it all. Shut the fuck up please.
How dare you say that to anyone? You’re a piece of garbage republican hillbilly trailer trash that adds absolutely nothing to this country except embarrassments.
Jamie Leonard
yeah they be haten on gays all the time !
James Robinson
The Free2Be Safe Anti-Violence Project serving LGBTQ Alabama has established a tax-exempt Victim’s Services & Relief Fund to first assist Gary Alan Bravo then other LGBTQ survivors of violent crimes in Alabama. Your support of our community in the Deep South is greatly appreciated! http://free2be.org/free2be-safe/
Masc Pride
@Bauhaus: Totally not surprised to see you defending stupidity.
Giancarlo85
@Masc Pride: So tell me, you hate the victim in this article? Just because of the way he looks? Is that it? Is it his eyebrows and facial structure that are offensive to you?
Sluggo2007
What is the surprise here? It’s Alabama for God’s sake!
Timothy Warner
Alabama, needs to be leld accountable.
Masc Pride
@Giancarlo85: It is disturbing to see you were up at 12 in the morning STILL obsessing over me and whatever you thought I was saying (which is of course always very different from what was actually said).
onthemark
If I may change the topic slightly… Gary Bravo, what a cool name.
Giancarlo85
@Masc Pride: You do realize that time stamp is wrong? I didn’t make that post at midnight, dipshit. You just don’t care for the victim in this attack. You hate his looks and think he deserved to get beaten.
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: BTW Present time stamp says: 5:18PM. When in reality, I made the prior post at 2:18PM. That’s because this blog is in eastern time and not pacific time.
Masc Pride
@Giancarlo85: You were still obsessing over it far past midnight. You know you lose sleep over all these iBattles you start. So pathetic. Do you know I literally laugh out loud at how flustered and emotional I get you? 😀
Giancarlo85
@Masc Pride: No I wasn’t. You are lying again little man. I wake up usually at 5AM because of my work. I was not up pass midnight. You really are a stupid fake masculine closet case.
Masc Pride
@Giancarlo85: “I was not up pass [sic] midnight”
Someone’s stupid alright! LOL Between you and Bauhaus, I can’t tell which one of you is more “intellectually challenged”. There’s no way you have a job when you’re busy stalking me 24/7. You’re a Section 8 queen, and you know it. Nice try.
Giancarlo85
@Masc Pride: You’re a moron. I could put “SIC” in all of your posts pointing out the stupid errors you make. Your grammar is disastrous. Fake little piggy… go back to eating big macs and wishing you were muscular and masculine. You’ll never be masculine. NEVER!
And I’m pretty sure I make about double what you make. Please… lets not even go there. You should know working in the mall isn’t a career.
Masc Pride
Someone’s really mad right now! lol Your inadequate inner city education wasn’t my fault, buddy.
Giancarlo85
@Masc Pride: Oh look… the little boy is trying to make sure he types his shitty grammar better, so he doesn’t get caught being a hypocrite.
I have two college degrees, so don’t go there, Mr. Beer Belly.
Giancarlo85
I just found Masc Pride in all his glory:
https://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/shirelyqliquor.gif
Masc Pride
@Giancarlo85: “I have two college degrees…”
No one cares about your two DeVry certificates!
I found you right here on Queerty:
http://www.queerty.com/girl-he-hit-the-pole-viral-video-star-is-an-alleged-hat-thief-with-a-criminal-past-20150611
“Gurrrrl, he hit da po!” LOL
Giancarlo85
@Masc Pride: Oh how original.
I didn’t go to DeVry. You didn’t even finish high school, so what are you talking about?
I went to a State University with actual accreditation.
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musctop
@BJ McFrisky: Yeah–we call the cops. Because it’s their JOB, even if some of them do it poorly/not at all. They’re paid to show up when they’re called. What part of that are you having trouble understanding?