Galveston : 3 Charged in Anti-Gay Hate-Crime.
I know, they don’t hate us. They’re expressing their Christian love or some other such twaddle. From the Galveston County News:
GALVESTON — A 4-pound stone, one of several door stops hurled at patrons in a bar that includes gay people among its clientele, left one man with 12 staples in the back of his head and two brothers and an acquaintance accused of a hate crime.
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Bosaw sat at the corner of the bar at 2501 Ave. Q just a few feet from one of two entryway doors.
“I thought I had just been slapped, and the second rock hit me here,” Bosaw said of the mark on his hand. “Everything went white in my mind, and I thought that was it. I even said ‘goodbye.’”
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Bonds for Lawrence Henry Lewis III, 20, Lawrneil Henry Lewis, 18, and Alejandro Sam Gray, 17, all of Galveston, were set at $120,000 each on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with the enhancement of a hate crime, said Lt. D.J. Alvarez, a Galveston police spokesman.
Victor Clements, 47, said that as he compressed the back of his 13-year partner’s bleeding head, witnesses chased after three men and gave a description to police.
Meanwhile, bar patrons, including a psychiatrist, tried to keep Bosaw conscious, bracing him to keep him on his feet near the billiard table.
“I kind of blacked out, and the doctor of psychiatry was sitting next to me,” Bosaw said. “He said I had a weak pulse and made me breathe deeply and kept shaking me.”
Police called an ambulance. Nickelson, who was hit in the jaw, refused treatment. The ambulance took Bosaw to Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, where medical staff placed 12 metal staples in his head, released him about midnight and told him he should be watched for a couple of days.
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The district attorney’s office authorized the hate crime charge because the motive was to harass and the intent was to randomly assault them based on their sexual preference, Alvarez said.
Cue rabid screeching from the Peter LaBarbera types, who will claim that hate-crimes legislation protection for LGBT people constitutes “special rights”.
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“I was just sitting there innocently having a cocktail,” Bosaw said. “We had just arrived and were sitting there for two minutes.”
Yvonne Gordon of Galveston said she was at the bar during the melee.
Police took the rock that hit Bosaw as evidence. It has his hair still attached, Gordon said.
Lafitte bartender Joel Hickman, who was not on duty Sunday night, said the establishment is basically known as a gay bar.
“Everybody around here knows that, but not all our clientele is gay.”
Of course it doesn’t matter to the RRRW bigots if you actually are gay. Just possibly being gay, befriending gays, “looking” gay, or being in gay-friendly establishment is enough for them. They don’t care who they harm, or how many they harm in their efforts to destroy LGBT people. Some collateral damage is inevitable when fighting a war, you see. And they’re like that with anybody they’ve written off as “sinful” or otherwise unworthy, which includes pretty much everyone but themselves.
No compassion, no empathy, no humanity. They are a truly despicable lot.
