stone the crows...
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.
Link to a discussion of this story on a gay board. Reality is sinking in for some of them, others not so much. Discussion gets rather nasty going back and forth.
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html#page:showThread,8035572,1
Interesting find. That's a gay message board? I've perused a few pages so far and there's very little love for Somalis. And yeah, reality is starting to sink in.
Or maybe reality has been sinking in for some time within the gay community. Now that I think about it, many gays choose to live in urban areas and away from the suburbs. Being targeted for crime is probably something many of them have experienced, more-so than most of us suburban dwellers who tend to keep our distance from the inner-city street thugs.
I watched the entire youtube video and didn’t see one rock being thrown.
stone the crows...
I fear many of them have become useful idiots of the left.
If they had only listened to Barry Goldwater.... Barry knew that personal freedom is given to those individuals as an inherent right. Not through the creation of more laws and more government agencies. And that freedom comes with personal responsibility as part of the social contract.
Someday this is going to bite all of the Gay Mafia on the butt and not in a pleasant way.
I fear the reprisal that may one day may come down upon my some of my gay friends. They cheered when Obama was elected and he has done nothing for them because he is only interested in his own power.
A good half of the gay people I know are not only out of the closet, but they are obnoxiously out of the closet. I shed no tear for Perez Hilton, he poked a Hornet’s nest with a stick and when you are an awful little human being you get your comeuppance.
The other half of gay people live their lives in private, they are not in the “closet”, they are just very discreet about it, they dress well and are polite and they don’t believe the world owes them something, they have many more straight friends than the obnoxious contingent. They are more emotionally healthy and don’t require expensive therapy sessions to deal with all their pent up hate and aggression. They grumble silently when they see some gay parade on the news which is totally lewd and in bad taste and say silently to them self “What a disaster!”
Which one of the two above groups will be the first against the wall when the communist revolution comes?
What event? The event you are talking about never happened. At least in the minds of elite libs, these things never happened. It's like people speaking at universities being assaulted and having things thrown at them. The people being assaulted are always conservatives and the people assaulting them are always liberals. It's never the other way around. These and other inconvenient truths are virtually ignored by all libs. This incident will be too.
The video is a little scary. Irrespective of gayness in this story, those kids and their entire families should be put on a boat and sent back to Somalia.
The inevitable clash of liberals and fag hating Muslims will be fun to watch.
“Allah gay bar” is more like it ;-)
do we need the SEALs to come take care of these somalis too?
Absolutely.
>>We really need the 3rd world here.<<
We have it already. Ever been to detroit? Parts of Chicago or Washington DC, New Jersey?
Well that makes me feel safe but it is transforming into Obama's America.
Popcorn time.
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