Posted on 01/09/2019 9:12:27 AM PST by rickmichaels
A man who allegedly attacked a lesbian couple at a NFL game has been charged under the state of Washington hate crime statute.
Prosecutors charged the 34-year-old with second-degree assault and malicious harassment after he allegedly groped one of the women and punched the other in the face.
The attack allegedly took place during a game between the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals on December 30.
The man, identified as Jay Dee Harp III in local media, was taken into custody with a $25,000 bail. He was bailed out the next day, but a judge then increase the bail to $100,000 after learning details of the alleged attack.
The couple had gone to see the NFL game at the CenturyLink Field stadium along with one of the women’s mother.
The man, described as wearing Arizona Cardinals attire, was sitting in their row and allegedly began harassing them early in the game as he passed them to get various rounds of beer.
According to the couple, the man asked them, “Do you need a man in your life?” as well as using homophobic slurs and making references to his genitalia.
The sexual assault allegedly took place during the third quarter, when the man was passing them after returning from buying a drink.
As reported in court documents quoted in local media, the man grabbed one of the women by her jacket, unzipping it and grabbing her breast. As she tried to push him off, he allegedly threw his beer in her face.
The woman’s wife then reportedly told him not to “put hands on my wife” and other members of the audience joined in to contain the man to the ground.
Jay Dee Harp III, however, freed himself from one of the NFL fans’ grip, stood up and allegedly punched the woman’s wife in the face, causing her a nose bleed, cut and a chipped tooth.
Members of the audience then restrained the man again and called out to a state trooper, who was followed to the scene by another state trooper and a local police deputy.
As a state trooper was restraining him, the man once again opposed resistance and allegedly cursed at the official and punched him in the stomach. Officers then used a taser on the man, who was described as “highly intoxicated,” and proceeded to handcuff him.
Hate crimes in the US against LGBT+ people have been on the increase in the past few years, according to FBI data. Around 17 percent of the more than 7,100 instances of hate crime reported in the US in 2017 were due to anti-LGBT bias.
“Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent cities who, in the same way as these men today, gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion, stand in their punishment as a permanent warning of the fire of judgment.”
(New Testament, Jude 1:7)
I think that's actually what Bruce Jenner is.
A phrase that should not exist. That said, keep your drunken self under control or pay a high price.
“a judge then increase the bail to $100,000 after learning details of the alleged attack.”
Increased the bail just because they were lesbians. Sounds like the judge needs to be sued over discrimination.
What prompted you to visit a site called Pink News?
It isn't special just because the victims are members of a protected class of people. There cannot be different laws and rulings for "protected classes". That is Pretense-of-Law rather than Rule-of-Law.
The whole idea of "hate crimes" needs to be discarded.
Who would want to grab a dyke’s tit?
A belligerent drunk...
“It was stated pretty succinctly in the article that the guy was obviously ‘four sheets to the wind’. Alcohol will make you do strange things, sometimes”
That or being a Arizona Cardinals fan.
Now, he's a strange one. Someone posted pics of him and his girlfriend recently. Apparently, they're both chicks with **cks.
Seattle, what do you expect from a liberal shiitehole?
He can get off with a self defense argument. The jealous bull dyke attacked him because he was harmlessly flirting with a gal at a football game. Big deal...
Shits and giggles.
That's a legitimate reason. I surf like that sometimes.
She doesn’t have a wife. Sbe has a diving partner.
If the woman he punched was the husband, maybe the dude thought he was going man to man with her/him/it?
That too.
Now is a good time to reassess your relationship with alcohol.
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