Posted on 07/01/2009 5:34:12 PM PDT by Drew68
A St. Louis Park man says he was taunted and pelted with rocks after he left the Twin Cities Gay Pride Parade, and the attack was caught on camera.
The video has already received 1,800 views after it was posted Monday on YouTube. The clip shows boys and teenagers trailing 37-year-old Adam Schreifels and taunting him after learning he's gay.
"We hate fags, disgusting. Just very inappropriate things to be saying," Schreifels said.
He says while he was shocked by the comments, he wasn’t scared.
"Some of them threw rocks. At first, I got defensive. Then I thought okay, they are teenagers. I can take them," Schreifels explained.
But Gay Pride organizers say he shouldn't have to.
"I was upset. I was very disturbed why what I was seeing," said Chair of Twin Cities Pride David Hill.
The video also shows security officers not reacting to the harassment. Organizers say the men worked security at a nearby building, but weren’t providing security for the parade—which was controlled by 30 off-duty Minneapolis Police officers.
"They would have stopped it immediately. It would not be tolerated by Minneapolis Police officers," said Sgt. Jesse Garcia.
But Schreifels says a Minneapolis officer directing traffic failed to step in.
"There has been some speculation that Minneapolis Police officers were in that video. The Minneapolis Police Department wants to assure the public that those security officers who casually walk by during this incident were not from our department. We have a strict uniform policy and those were not our uniforms or our police officers. This is unacceptable behavior that would not be tolerated by the Minneapolis Police. Action would have been taken immediately to stop the harassment that is depicted in the video. We want all people, no matter of color, race, creed or sexual orientation to feel safe and welcome while they are in the city of Minneapolis," the department said in a released statement.
While event organizers say this was an isolated incident, it’s a very upsetting one.
"It brings to the forefront why we hold the event every year, equality is still not there," Hill explained.
The teens who harassed Schreifels were Somali, according the Somali Justice Advocacy Center. Leaders say it's unacceptable to harass someone because of their sexual orientation.
Muslim thugs, imported from Africa, working to turn America into a third-world nation.
better rocks than bullets
Deport the Somalis.
Actually just liberals enjoying the fruits of their stupidity. We really need the 3rd world here.
Certainly their cultural outlook is equal to that of the homosexual parade goers and attendees (and participants)!
Some people are just too stupid to be afforded the privilege of self-government.
What to do?
The whole thing is just ironic.
Libs make way for the Muslims and the gays in the same place?? Apparently, they expected both groups to just sing Kum-baya and get along.
Between muzzies and faggies, there really isn’t much to choose.
Hate crime......oh wait, that’s racist.
Bobby Bendover, it is your own darn fault that you got pelted by some J\jabbi jihad yutes.
The jihad has been declared on america and you liberals must realize that includes you. Making friends with them will not protect you from this war. Not a chance.
You and your buds need to come in for the big win and help purge these people out of america before those rocks turn into rockets.
One protected group attacking another protected group, very interesting! Just a sign of things to come in this wonderful multicultural society we have.
Quite a conundrum, isn't it? Let's import third-world savages (oops, I mean "victims of western imperialism") and then scratch our heads when they continue to behave like third-world savages.
Wow. Who could've seen this coming?
The liberals wouldn;t do a thing BECAUSE...
the youths are BLACK! Now if the youths were white, the MSM will be all over it.
Sniff...just wait until the Gay Ones get a taste of their "Sharia Law."
Somali immigrant yoots stoning a homosexual vs a homosexual AIDS social-disparity researcher molesting and subsequently offering to pimp out his black 5 year old adoptive son as a sex slave.
There has got to be some way to blame this on the religious right...
To be fair, it's unlikely they're illegal. Certain charitable organizations have greased the wheels for legal Somali immigration. They're flooding into the country by the tens of thousands. A few cities in America have been drastically changed, practically overnight, by the legal influx of Somali immigrants.
“But Schreifels says a Minneapolis officer directing traffic failed to step in.”
Traffic cop had better things to do.
I agree. I feel little pity for gay activists after their Prop 8 thuggery, and the Perez Hilton nonsense. Frankly I see a lot of similarity between gays and muslims in the way they bleat about the intolerance of others while they are constantly getting in everybody's face.
I was gonna say, sounds like Muslims stoning infidels again.
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