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.
I would not feel so all alone....
EEEVVVRRYBODY must get stoned!
See how the TV station uses that stupid rainbow flag in their own story graphics. Sick how the media carries their water.
I would say acts like this by scumbags like these are a greater threat to gay people than the “religious right.” Yet all the speechifying by politicians and Hollywood elites makes it sound as if Christians and conservatives are the real bad guys. So when are we going to hear the one in the White House and others calling for an end to the kind of hateful violence we read about in this story?
How come the gay guy didn’t say to the Somali boy “I’M the fag? you’re the one wearing a dress!”
In other news, Buffy, endangered desert tortoises have been spotted eating endangered Northern spotted owls......
Film at eleven.
They're thinking, "Let's spin this to link the influence of "Right Wing" talk radio on impressionable Somali youths?"
Gay white stoned by muslim Somali teens ... oh, what to do?
Gay, white Duke social worker molests and pimps out adopted five year-old black son. *crickets*
A Somali kid hit me square in the head with a rock in Lewiston, Maine when I was trying to take a photo of a railroad trestle. No provocation at all. If he’d been back in the old country, he would have had an AK-47 and I’d be dead.
Geez, kind of a tepid reaction to a hate crime.
You're right. But if they manage to pass "hate-crime legislation" watch, Muslims will somehow be exempt whereas Jews and Christians will not be.
What they don't comprehend is the Jihad-Muslims will only see that legislation as the go-ahead to step up terrorism in this country.
He's darn lucky he wasn't killed.
The most dangerous place in Minneapolis is anywhere between Sgt. Jesse Garcia and a TV camera....
Minneapolis:
http://www.mshale.com/article/News/News/After_Minneapolis_FBI_Eyes_Atlantas_Somalis/18374
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461865,00.html
Atlanta:
http://www.bartamaha.com/?p=545
http://mustikhan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/30/2983040-fbi-eyes-somalis-in-atlanta-smallville
Tennessee:
http://www.t-g.com/story/1320154.html
Columbus:
http://www.oac.state.oh.us/News/NewsArticle.asp?intArticleId=164
“Quote:
Originally Posted by Londa419
When I visited I hardly seen the Somali’s that I had heard of but when I did actually move here I see them in droves, it doesn’t bother me I just was wondering why did so many of them pick the center of Ohio to stay? Is there something in particular here that attracted them to Columbus?
I understand from a friend in Cleveland, it’s the same way there. Also, in Anchorage up here they are bringing them over. Was an article in the paper the other day where one of the women actually had the nerve to say “better get ready for my people” something to that effect.”
http://www.city-data.com/forum/columbus/411124-why-there-so-many-somalians.html
I’d tell Schreifels “look you bigot, you better be tolerant of the Somali culture, or you’ll be guilty of a hate crime, you intolerant...”
Celebrate Diversity!
the chickens are...I say the chickens are coming home to roost !!
Muslims vs. homosexuals. Triangulate.
The perv talked about his - and his partners; - adopted "son" for years. Vids of the kid being molested were offered.
For years.
And NO ONE turned the perv in... Not one gay person called the police and said a child is being raped.
And still today, NOT ONE WORD of condemnation ... just crickets.
And it happened right in Bob Dylan’s neck of the woods, too.
Ah, just the Religion of Peace welcoming them to the neighborhood.
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