Posted on 05/06/2015 2:15:57 PM PDT by Lorianne
The NYPD is investigating a restaurant beatdown as a possible hate crime after wild video taken at the Chelsea eatery shows an attacker smash a wooden chair over a gay couple, knocking them both to the ground, witnesses and cops said.
According to DNAinfo.com, which first reported on the assault, the beating came after the attacker lobbed several gay slurs at the couple, identified by the website as Jonathan Snipes, 32, and his 25-year-old boyfriend, Ethan York-Adams.
"These guys attacked us specifically because they knew we weren't their type of people," Snipes told DNA. "It was disgusting. It was awful.”
The brawl at the Dallas BBQ Tuesday night had briefly been broken up before the suit-wearing, heavy-set bald man, rushed in with a chair and sucker-slammed the men on the head around 11:05 p.m.
York-Adams falls out of sight while Snipes sinks into a chair as he absorbs the blow. Someone, apparently a restaurant worker, can be seen trying to maintain calm before the brutal bash.
Snipes was kicked while on the ground, according to police. Neither man was hospitalized, but Snipes told the website he had cartilage in his ear snapped and a tooth knocked loose in the melee.
"They hit us hard and then they wouldn't stop. I was hobbling away and they came and attacked us again," Snipes told DNA. "We were just trying to get away from it."
Witnesses can be heard screaming in the background. The man who posted the shocking video, Isaam Sharef, said the bearded attacker fled the restaurant at 261 8th Ave.
Also, I bet it burns their hides that this did not happen in Dallas but instead in NYC among other facts.
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He should have swung back with his purse.
This does not sound like the kind of thing likely to happen without some other provocation leading up to it.
but the two Obama sons who pummeled that white guy..that wasn’t a hate crime. wt@ is a hate crime anyway? are there crimes done with love?
Article says the gay guy threw the first punch.
Why am I not surprised?
How would the attacker know this was a gay couple?
Were they behaving normally as any two individuals would?
Or were they acting out in public; queering it up to get a response?
It also doesn’t say whether the witness was ever served his “chicken and shrimp combo and frozen apple tini”
Inquiring minds want to know!
Snipes, though, told DNAInfo that the fight began after he knocked over a drink on his way out of the restaurant and the att
acker said, “White f----ts, spilling drinks.” "I don't let anyone talk to me like that. I went over there and asked, 'What did you say about us?'" he told the website. "I may be a mouthy broad, but I wasn't going to take it to that level.”
Hrm....any bets that the bald guy with the beard is a Muslim?
Verbal provocation does not call for a beat down........
LOL! Can you see the pantywaists when a guy comes at them with a chair??? Knocked ‘em both to the floor. Priceless!!!
It is pretty funny.
Oh wait, the article means they were homosexuals, why didn't they just say so?
Snipes went over to the man and took a swing at him, sparking the fight, Sharef said. The big man was able to get Snipes on the ground and stomp him before York-Adams stepped in to separate the two.
Sharef said he never hear gay slurs and doubts the incident was a hate crime. The restaurant, in the heart of Chelsea’s gay club district, is known as a gay hangout, he said.
“I didn’t get the impression it was a hate crime because the other guy (Snipes) started the fight,” Sharef said.
Read he article, it looks like a couple of obnoxious homosexuals started a fight, counting on the fact that normal men are hesitant to fight homosexuals. They counted wrong.
It wasn't till the end of the video when everything seemed to have died down that the big bald dude then took a chair and threw it at the guys.
I wouldn't consider him a muslim but rather someone from middle eastern descent. Maybe Chaldean or Lebanese....They can be vicious.
I watched the video and it wasn't till after things had died down that the big guy then picked up a chair and threw it at the gay guys who weren't even near him.........that was uncalled for.
Could be right. However if this was a gay haunt how do we know the chair attacker wasn’t also gay?
I think we’ll have to wait for more info.
Quick summary: two queers start a fight, get stomped, and then whine.
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