Dallas police have made a public plea in hopes of finding two unidentified men who attacked patrons at a gay bar. Law enforcement is treating the incident as a hate crime.
Cameras caught the fight at the Liquid Zoo Bar & Grill on February 2. The two men entered the bar and began harassing patrons by yelling homophobic slurs. Bartenders tried to escort the pair from the premises. The two men resisted, and began throwing punches.
“It was kind of nightmarish because you never know what’s going to happen in that situation,” Ronnie Mikyles, one of the bar employees, told CBS News. “My face had gotten split open, and the back of my head was swollen on the right side of my face.”
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Cameras caught images of the suspects during the attack, and police hope a member of the public can aid in identifying the suspects. Ronnie Mikyales hopes that the attack will also help bring the Dallas community together.
“Spread a little more love, spread a little more joy and cheer instead of being so hateful or anything of that nature,” Mikyles said. “I just hope it opens people’s eyes, that sort of thing.”
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Easy to find those pernocious noxious smcubags. Head to the nearest cruise area
Chrisk
Yeah, we have more to fear from our own sometimes. Closeted gays that is.
Thad
Is this bar new? I was in Dallas in November and never heard of it. Still, this is awful behavior and can’t be tolerated.
Harley
I live in Dallas and never heard of this place.
bstnlooking
It is on the corner of Knight and Maple right under the NT Tollway. I frequent that bar for lunch and occasionally Monday night steak night, how awful that this should happen in this day in age!
sillyme
Oh wow, we’re the target for many more of these types of attacks than any other people around I’m finding and a friend of mine that I used to work with a long time ago from the SE side of the US came here and made racial slurs one night with his boyfriend and got his jaw broken and was beaten then only I was able to visit him in the hospital for some reason and set him right and never really saw him again. I hope he went back to his home state and lived for here he wouldn’t make it very well being a white southerner with a big mouth against other gays, or races for some reason.
dannysax
Seriously? No one in the place with a clear head, who should have called the police as soon as the situation got violent. Then there would be no need to hunt for the culprits at a later time, which may be unsuccessful. Phone cameras could have taken pics of them too.
Gary Q VV
I don’t know why we don’t just gang up on bullies and knock the heck out of them. Bullying is their way of intimidating us. If they knew we were tough & knew how to defend ourselves, preferably in groups, we could make them think twice before attacking f*gs & p*ffs. Ya know how much a lot of us gay men spend hours all week putting on muscle mass, now we need to learn self-defense.
Desertmuscle8
Yeay another genious!!! !Gary, read my post.!
Mack
More than likely once convicted the bigoted Governor will pardon them.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
This makes me all the happier that in my state open carry is so widely used that armed robberies and assaults have dropped to less than a third before it went into effect. I don’t think I would patronize any bar that wasn’t prepared for a possible Pulse type of scenario in an open carry state. Its a fact that even churches have now accepted and act accordingly as did happen a few weeks ago when church members turned the tables on a nutcase. They did it because they decided enough was enough and it was time to fight back. To hell with just an after fact article in a gay media outlet.
Rocinante
I am thinking of starting to carry a concealed weapon. I wouldn’t even hesitate to put a couple of rounds in these guys brain pan. Used to have lots of guns, got rid of all of them, rethinking that lately. I’ll shoot someone for verbal assault just as fast as physical.