“Roving hoodlums were out for blood when they bashed in the head of an accountant on a West Village street Thursday, possibly because he was gay, police said. ‘I got him good,’ one of the punks allegedly boasted after the gang jumped Alan Williams, 50, as he was hailing a cab around 2 a.m. Thursday. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the NYPD is investigating the near-fatal beating as a ‘possible bias attack.’ Williams was in serious condition in a surgical ICU room at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan Thursday night – his swollen head wrapped in gauze, a tube down his throat. Put into a medically induced coma so his brain can heal, Williams has not been able to speak to police. Friends said he was openly gay, and police sources said he had a Gay Men’s Health Crisis card. … Residents told cops a group of troublemakers in the area has been hassling transvestites and gay men.” [NYDN]
NYC BASHING: Man Almost Killed By Attackers
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John Santos
Residents told cops a group of troublemakers in the area has been hassling transvestites and gay men.”
New York is littered with guns. Why don’t we own any? If somebody had one, they would have fired some shots into the general vacinity of those little pricks, and they would have scattered.
That said, I can see the debate about marriage equlity in NY is bringing out the gay bashers.
Dabq
Another day, more hate and someone near death for no reason other than hate, where in this country are we safe as gays and lesbians? I have had it up to here with the hate, and, maybe its time to start packing heat to protect ourselves, and, that from someone as anti-gun and violence as you can get, but, these chumps need to be taught a lessons that they didn’t get at home.
My thoughts are with this victim that he gets a good recovery and the cowards caught and proscueted, which they will be as they are always dumb enough to talk about how they beat the gay guy down.
But, not sure what to make of the trasvestite remark, do, they mean transexuals?
TANK
PHOTOS, FUCKERS! PHOTOS CONNECT!
Yes, guns. Guns are useful and cool. I don’t know if it would have prevented this, but there’s a good chance that one of the fuckers woulda been terminated in self defense. And that’s a service to the community.
Bitch, please!
As I have always maintained, NY is the most bigotted state in the Union. Violence is exalted in that state and has been since its begining.
BradK
And yet the NYPD seems to have limitless resources to troll Gay book stores and entrap innocent, middle-aged gay men. Doesn’t leave much “man” power left for real crime fighting I suppose.
Some “heroes”.
OhYeah
The perps are black (as is the unfortunate victim) so politically-correct Queerty won’t show the photos if they’re caught.
BradK
@OhYeah: You mean like they didn’t show these:
http://www.queerty.com/disgust-4-teens-rape-classmate-with-hockey-stick-and-broom-20090511/
???
OhYeah
Bradk : Well, that’s a mixed-race group, so they went ahead with that one.
HYHYBT
So the other day people complain when they *do* show photos, and today you complain because they don’t?
Chitown Kev
@HYHYBT:
The perps haven’t been caught yet that I know of, so how could there be any pictures?
DYN
Is it me? Doesn’t a Gay Men’s Health Crisis card strongly imply / require HIV infection? Why is it NYPD’s place to release this information? WTF? Why is it reprinted here?
TANK
@DYN:
Because there needs to be a crackdown and overhaul of the NYPD. Until it stops being homophobic.
TANK
@Chitown Kev:
Of the victim. Especially after shots.
mark
I agree where are the guns?
I’m waiting for some cowardly bunch of these putrid little f*cktards to get their nutz shot off…JUST ONCE.
afrolito
@OhYeah:
OhYeah…how do we know the perps are black? And LMFAO at queerty being “politically correct”.
I hope the victim makes a speedy recovery. These kinds of viloent attacks seem to be on the rise here in New York.
Brian Miller
@John Santos: New York is littered with guns. Why don’t we own any? If somebody had one, they would have fired some shots into the general vacinity of those little pricks, and they would have scattered.
Bingo.
http://www.pinkpistols.org
Chitown Kev
@afrolito:
I am reading a lot of blog posts (including Tank’s right here) that the victim was black, though. Haven’t seen TV video of that, though, can somebody post a link.
And the attacks will continue to rise, sadly.
strumpetwindsock
@Brian Miller:
No. Bullshit.
The solution to cops not doing their jobs is to bring back the wild west?
We’ve been through this little discussion before, and I don’t have time for a repeat, but I know your country is unique in the developed world in that you have a strong lobby that thinks more guns equals less violence – and anyone who dares to argue against handguns is a traitor.
It’s your country and you can do what you want (though the flow of illegal guns over our border sure has an impact on us).
…but I am sure some of the people arguing for more guns have no idea how to use one, have probably never experienced gun violence up close, and haven’t thought through the logistics of discharging a firearm on a city street (or possibly having their guns taken away and used against them).
What happened to this fellow is a terrible tragedy. Before you start parading him as a poster boy for the NRA it might be polite to wait until he gets out of his coma and see how he feels about the issue.
strumpetwindsock
@strumpetwindsock:
The issue of self defense patrols has come up a few times as a way to deal with cops not doing their jobs. A lot of universities and other communities already organize their own security.
THAT is a valid response. Assuming that we need the option of deadly force (especially in the hands of people who are angry, untrained in security and perhaps not thinking straight) is not.
And NOBODY should be firing guns in the city, let alone within a mile of a house.
Jaime
@afrolito:
How do we know the perps were black? Umm, have you been down to Christopher Street lately? And never mind the fact that multiple witnesses identified the attackers as a group of BLACK men.
OhYeah
Let’s just hope the poor dude pulls through.
afrolito
@Jaime:
Have you been to Harlem lately? The area is crawling with WHITE PEOPLE. Does that mean any attacks up there is caused by white perps?
You stupid fuck.