“Two Ecuadorian brothers were beaten, one critically, during an apparently unprovoked attack in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn Sunday morning that may be a bias crime. The victims were walking home from a bar when they were attacked by three or four men, who jumped out of an SUV, at the intersection of Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue at around 3:30 a.m.” Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn said in a statement emailed today, “I was outraged to learn this morning that two men were assaulted at Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, and especially horrified to learn that anti-LGBT and anti-Latino slurs were used by one or more of the assailants – raising this event to the level of a hate crime. (WABC)
Police Search for Hate Crime Assailants of Two Brooklyn Brothers
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seitan-on-a-stick
There goes (East) Williamsburg!
hardmannyc
I heard they weren’t gay. Gay bashers do that every once in a while – bash nongays. sick fucks.
notke
This is about the 5th reported incident in NY in the past 3 months (though not all in the city). Nationally, there seems to be about 2-3 attacks on LGBT people reported each week.
http://hatecrimereports.org/
JJJJ
Because the assailants were African-American, will gay activists protest or is that too politically incorrect?