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.
Every few years I get a little sad I moved from CA. I had friends and family there, and the mountain biking was simply the best.
At those times I look at Zombietime, and know I made the correct decision.
Seems reasonable to me.
Blacks spouting family values...?
Yeah, this REEKS of hoax.
I was sitting at an outdoor lunch place with my child at a totally family-oriented beach on the Atlantic Ocean a few years back, when a man completely naked but for a miniscule flesh-colored thong on strings came sashaying up from a secluded nudist beach a mile away to order himself some lunch and scandalize the parents and children with his bare azz. Must shove his fetish in everyone's face.
Too bad it wasn't hot coffee season. "Oops!"
A gang of peaceful Muslims attack your infidel daughter to molest her. You grab your gun and blow a few of the Muslims away. You are arrested for a hate crime.
The judge will find you guilty of premeditated murder because you wrote something on the internet five years earlier that was less than complementary about Muslim who gang rape Christian women.
The same judge will use Sharia law to find you daughter guilty of non Muslim dress and will find the surviving Muslims did NOT violate Sharia Law and are therefore free to go. The wounded and deceased Muslims will sue you for wrongful death.
That's the America Hussein Obama is working hard to change us to.
I’ve worn chaps. Of course I was wearing jeans as well and was astride a horse.
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