Posted on 09/26/2016 11:11:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police are investigating a report of a hate crime Saturday night outside a restaurant in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood after a pair of New York tourists said they were pepper-sprayed after the city's leather-clad Folsom Street Fair.
At about 7:30 p.m., Neil Frias and Jeff White, both visiting from New York for the annual fair, billed as the "world's largest leather event," were at a McDonald's restaurant near Golden Gate Avenue and Fillmore Street.
They were ordering food when two suspects rushed them, uttering homophobic slurs. Frias told the San Francisco Chronicle that one of the men told them they were "destroying family values." Then three more suspects got out of a minivan and confronted one of the victims, according to police. The suspects sprayed Frias in the face with a Mace-like substance.
"Then one guy comes out, and I thought he was going to take a swing at me, and he pepper sprays me and then takes a second can and sprays me," Frias said. "I dropped to the ground, eyes stinging, and I yelled to call the police."
Frias and White called out for help, and the suspects fled in the minivan, police said.
"It was totally unprovoked," White said. "It's amazing how unprovoked it was."
The suspects are described as five African-American men, 25 to 35 years old, according to police.
Officers responded and rendered aid to the victims. Paramedics also responded and treated the two men.
Police said they are treating the attack as a hate crime and have turned over the case to a special investigations unit. The yare also seeking the public's help in finding the suspects, who are still at large.
Supervisor Scott Wiener was equally stunned to see this type of crime in San Francisco.
"We need strict enforcement of hate crimes; we need to take this incredibly seriously," Wiener said.
Anyone with information about the incident is being asked to either call the Police Department's tip line at (415) 575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411 and start the message with SFPD.
talking about family values? rather odd. Maybe African immigrants?
Hard to say, without seeing these NYC homos and how they were dressed and acted.
Face it: bottomless leather chaps just piss some people off......
That's an odd, awkward thing to say. It makes me think it's a hoax. Were there witnesses?
If they were at a McDonald’s there should be video
Smells like baloney.
But African-Americans are a protected group in lib-land, so it’s not likely they would make up something like that. If it were faked, the story would have been about white guys wearing Make America Great Again caps.
Blacks attack homosexuals - hate crime.
Homosexuals attack Blacks - hate crime.
Blacks and homosexuals attack Whites - ho hum, nothing to see here; move along....
What is the dif between assault and battery and hate crime? The category is subjective and a terrible precedent therefore.
If it were a hoax, they'd have made the attackers white.
Easy question.
It’s a hate crime if it’s committed against anyone but a White male; it’s assault and battery if it’s committed aginst a White male.
Standard definition from Alfred E. Neuman’s ‘American Law and Silliness in the Twenty-First Century.’
They were driving a minivan.
Yes, it's odd that anyone in San Francisco talks about family values. Maybe the whole thing is a hoax.
It doesn’t pass the smell test....”release the video, release the video”/s
There you have it. Zombie has done photojournalistic reporting reporting from this event, from back in 2007. It is NOT family friendly. I doubt much has changed, it has been going on for a long time.
http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/
Links to the warning page. Anything past that page has lots of stuff that cannot be unseen. You’ve been warned.
Who are “The yare?”
I am smelling hoax or staged event also.
I’m betting on hoax
OF course it’s a hoax. These concocted “hate crimes against homos” almost always are of late.
Can’t be blacks. Nah. They never do anything mean.
Schadenfreude, again! I love it when lib groups clash. (Before they went lock-step with Uhbama when he “changed his mind”, blacks basically hate homos. Truth.)
Who is preferred?
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