Police in New York City have appealed to the public for help in identifying the perpetrator of a suspected hate crime that took place the evening of April 24.
The attack occurred in Midtown Manhattan Saturday evening around 7 pm. Video surveillance footage shows the 24-year-old victim–whose identity has not been released to the public–walking into a CVS drug store.
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As the victim enters the building, the suspect attacks him, punching him in the face and neck without warning. Police have also confirmed that the suspect shouted homophobic slurs during the beating; the victim is, indeed, a gay man.
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— PIX11 News (@PIX11News) April 28, 2021
Law enforcement has released video footage of the attack, and of the suspect escaping onto 9th street. The victim refused medical attention at the scene.
New York City police hope someone can help identify the attacker and bring him to justice. Anyone with information regarding the attack or the suspect can alert police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting crimestoppers.nypdonline.org.
GaysForTrump
Odd no mention of skin color.
Only when the suspect is white and victim is black is when it’s important for those facts to be blasted in the headlines and throughout the article(s).
GaysForTrump
Made such a big deal of the ‘suspects’ skin color from the Jussie Smollet ‘beat down’…
Kangol2
His skin color is visible or are you lacking eyesight? Jussie Smollett reported the “race” of his attackers. In this case, it’s visible. Now, have you asked your beloved Don the Con to apologize for all the homophobia he enabled?
ManCanBemuse
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ScottOnEarth
Why would they need to mention skin color….when the security video is embedded in the story?
GaysForTrump
Why does the press make such a big deal of police officers skin color when it’s often on the video?
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@ManCanBemuse……It sounds as though that book is hinting that you can take them out of the jungle but you won’t get the jungle out of them. Please correct me if I’m wrong on that interpretation as to how it pertains to this incident. And to think that I’ve always thought the Bell Curve was a crock of shit.
Cam
Yet not odd that the “GaysForTrump” account immediately mentions skin color.
Sweetie, we get it, the Group NOM’s memos were leaked YEARS ago that said their BIG plan was to send trolls onto LGBTQ sites to say racist things and try to drive a wedge between LGBTQs and people of color.
That group folded and yet you’re STILL trying that same tired old line?
I’d laugh, but you’re just to sad to even be funny.
LumpyPillows
With the name “GaysForTrump”, no one will take you seriously. Trump is such a terrible person and by extension you must be too. Your embrace of him to the point of making it you identity is damaging beyond belief.
Manray
Trump rat MAGAT. You’re a disgusting waste of oxygen.
Max
such hate and violence. it’s not okay and shouldn’t happen in 2021.
Chrisk
Wow. No warning whatsoever. The guy didn’t have any time to react. Looks like he was threatening others walking down the street as well.
This is a prime reason for hate crime laws.
wikidBSTN
The guy punched like a girl.
Kieran
The news media is reporting this as a “mostly peaceful” assault.
Kangol2
Hardy har har. Have you asked your beloved GOP to apologize for all the homophobia and hate it enables and fosters?
Kieran
@Kangol#2 Stop deflecting. Just condemn this Hate Crime and then shut up.
Cam
Nothing makes right wing trolls more gleeful than an LGBTQ person getting attacked.
Kangol2
@Kieran, YOU SHUT UP, you’re the one who made the racist joke! You are the person who is completely silent as your beloved GOP rages against LGBTQ people and is actively pushing laws to oppress you! This attack was disgusting, like EVERY hateful attack. But your silence about the larger anti-gay violence your beloved party keeps pushing speaks volumes.
Donston
And of course, every time a non white person does some fvck shit here comes the couple of basic racists hiding behind their “queerness” and multiple screen names. As if this has anything to do with BLM or systematic racism. As if the party they support doesn’t promote and profit off of hate and divisiveness. And as if white “queers” don’t get their ass beat by other white people.
Anyways, terrible crime. This type of stuff is still happening because so many dudes aren’t brought up to respect people as individuals. It’s also about toxic masculinity, that thing many Conservatives like to pretend isn’t a thing. But even most ultra homophobes don’t just attack randoms. That dude is fvcked up.
GaysForTrump
And of course every time a POC of color is attacked by a white person they are the racists.
Yet, you can’t seem to comprehend that the black community is the race behind most Asian attacks.
White crime against blacks and the headlines, along with the articles specifically state race.
So why is this any different?
Though continue on with your deflection about conservatives.
Your claim the comments are from the same individual is hilarious. Grow up.
You have anything of value to add to the sheer number of violence towards Asians by the black community?
Kangol2
First, @GFT, it’s Asian Americans who are under attack, and second, the majority of crimes against Asian Americans across the US last year were not by Black people. In fact, throughout US history, the overwhelming majority of violence and hatred against Asian Americans has come from White people, including massacres, attacks, banning immigration from China, interning Japanese Americans, etc. Or did you just wake up yesterday and scroll through the New York Assrag Post?
Moreover, the yearlong spate of targeted violence against Asian Americans is the DIRECT result of your beloved treasonous racist sack of offal Don the Con Drumpf. He is the one who repeatedly and relentlessly targeted China because of his disastrous, incompetent, deadly response to Covid-19. The anti-Asian American attacks by Black people are deplorable, as are attacks on any group by any other group, but the fact remains that the man you’re caping for is responsible for the surge in racist violence, and his lazy, trifling @ss has not said a word of apology or done anything stop what he unleashed.
As Donston says, these anti-gay attacks (and others) often result not just from homophobia (which hasn’t gone anywhere and which your fave Don the Con enabled) but toxic masculinity and masculine fragility, including gender panic, insecurity, and so on. It also involves people lashing out against people they perceive to be vulnerable, easy targets and scapegoats. I hope this perp is caught and prosecuted, as he will be, and that maybe one of these days you wake up.
GaysForTrump
Kangol, it’s Asians that are under attack. Not just Asian Americans.
And great deflection again. Stay current. And let’s talk current events. The sheer number of current violence attacks against Asians is from the black community.
Oh yes, Donald Trump the racist for calling the virus Chinese. Yet, why is It okay to call the variants UK, South African, Brazilian?
Please help me to understand that…
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@GaysForTrump and Kangol……have you two also taken notice of how ALL of these physical attacks on Asians and gay men seem to be taking place in cities where three quarters of that city’s population do not make enough money to support themselves without having to work two and three jobs? What else but a frustrated-with-life-itself individual would up and attack someone for no other reason than letting out their frustration? What I am waiting for is the asian or gay person going to jail and charge with felonious assault for fighting back and either permanently injuring or killing their attacker. At the rate these attacks are occurring it is only hours away. No one has the right to beat on you and you DO have the right to fight back.
Chrisk
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
There is truth to what you say. This thug has been brought looking at all his favorite rap stars living the dream and he’s got nothing. The best he can do is get a low paying job, sell dope, or rob people. Now he sees people he thinks are beneath him walking around enjoying life and that puts him into a murderous rage.
Gay rights are tied to economic rights. I cringe when I see a gay legislator showing contempt for poor people by thumbing down a minimum wage bill. If you want true equality you have to lift everyone up. We can’t live in a polarized society of haves and have nots.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Chris, based on two things this guy did makes me believe the guy is crazy. First of all he just hauled off and slugged the guy. Second, if you look at the video again you will see him not only yell at some one or some thing but he also pulls something out of his pocket that makes me wonder if a police officer had been near would he still be alive.
I loved living in NYC but I had to face a harsh reality, I could stay and end up with NOTHING but a rent receipt to show for all the years I lived there or just accept that the party was over for my then fifty something year old ass and go on back home. I chose the latter and never looked back in anger or regret. I grew up poor and will never see (in my mind) $60k per year as a paltry salary. But in NYC, Los Angeles, D.C., San Francisco or lets just say the entire east and west coasts thats just what that salary amounts to. Nothing. Sixty thousand dollars comes out to $30 per hour (roughly) and in todays world in the big city that amounts to lower middle class status with no chance of ever owning anything in those cities. When they talk that b/s about low income housing dont believe it. They are window dressing a serious economic problem.
MissTerri
Wow what a surprise.
Cam
Funny how the right wing troll accounts, who continuously defend any white religious nut who tries to steal our rights, or every white bigot who violently attacks LGBTQ people, suddenly pretend to be concerned if the attacker isn’t white.
So I can’t tell, is your anti-LGBTQ hate worse than your racism or vice versa?
Pack to the actual topic, the poor guy, hopefully they catch the guy before it happens again.
GaysForTrump
Cam, you couldn’t even say one right that was taken away from you during the Trump administration. Not one.
You’re all talk. No facts.
Cam
@GaysForTrump
Talk to trans people about not being able to serve in the military under Trump after that right was taken away from them.
Ooooops, Sorry troll, did you forget you’re on an LGBTQ blog and you can’t just make up lies about how Republicans aren’t anti-LGBTQ bigots on here?
GaysForTrump
Of course that was your go to answer about ‘your’ rights being taken away under Trump.
Trans serving in the military is not a fundamental right.
I asked you, what rights of yours were personally taken away. Which ones were at jeopardy.
None. Zilch. You have no answer.
Continue on with the name calling. You sound like a 5th grader. Real mature.
Cam
@GaysForTrump
LOL!!!!! LOVE it! So the right wing troll account says to make a right that was taken away under Trump. I point out a right that was taken away and then it now scrables and tries to claim that denying somebody employment because of their being LGBTQ isn’t a right.
Please, Please, PLEASE tell Putin or the RNC to spend some coin and hire smarter trolls.
GaysForTrump
You’re to thick to understand.
Serving in the military does not have the same protections as employers.
The military disqualifies a number of individuals for various reasons. Various disabilities prevent people from serving.
Your response is childish. And lacks any knowledge on the topic.
GaysForTrump
Biden taking away menthol cigarettes because a significant percentage of the black community use them.
Why are you not up in arms over that? Your hypocrisy is showing…
GaysForTrump
No one here is defending religious nut job. Stop with the deflecting.
What I’m stating are the facts. Isn’t it true the black community is often only vocal about violence when they’re the victim and the suspect is white?
Why is that?
And the ‘race card’ is over played. We get It. We’re all racist. Yawn. Next…
Google search: Asian American attacks. The suspects are predominantly black.
Google search: brawl breaks out airport. Brawl breaks out restaurant. Mob loots gas station. The groups is those videos are typically black.
Though apparently racists by stating that. Why is that? Because I’m pointing out the color of their skin?
Why does race typically only play a part of the headline or article when the suspect is white and the victim is black?
Cam
No, actually what you’re doing is trying to deflect from the fact that a gay man was attacked and try to push the racism that right wing groups have been trying to do for years.
Your troll game is old and tired.
Kangol2
GFT, we get it, you’re a virulent racist. OK, case closed.
Also, look at the larger statistics. The majority of attacks on Asian Americans are not by Black people. Additionally, the only two mass murder of Asian Americans have been by White individuals, in Atlanta and Indianapolis. Or did you miss that?
Lastly, your fave Don the Con didn’t just say the virus was “Chinese,” he used repeated slurs, all year long, instead of taking responsibility for the blood on his tiny, treasonous hands.
Back to the original article, this person very likely will be caught and convicted. And it’ll also probably turn out that he is one of many mentally ill people roaming the streets of NYC which, as Sister pointed out, has long been a very hard place for poor and working-class people to live, but after the disaster of Covid-19, turned into an outright dystopia for innumerable people.
LumpyPillows
Racism is alive and well, as is homophobia and transphobia. It saddens me to say that black men are the most violent homophobes I have ever encountered. They also seem to really hate trans black women to the point of murder. While I’m sure we’d all like it to not be true, it is and black people need to address this just as white people need to address racism.
Cam
Funny, I don’t see Black people pushing for laws that would take away LGBTQ civil rights. Instead I see back people standing in line for 10 hours to vote for politicians who want to further LGBTQ rights.
kamirX
So true. Pretty much EVERY demographic on this planet has some work to do around tolerance and diversity and black men are no different. Being black, I am MORTIFIED by the frequency of black people involved in these anti Asian hate crimes.