It's nice to put a name to a douche bag! In September, Blake Hayes, a gay man living in New York City, was attacked outside a bar in Hell's Kitchen, a very gay-friendly area of Manhattan. When Hayes and his two friends who witnessed the incident, Danny Calvert and Alec Bell, tried to report the incident to the police, they refused to take a report. Well the Hate Crimes Task Force immediately went to work to get to the bottom of this act of bigotry. The asshole, who was captured on surveillance video, has been found and identified as Staff Sergeant Benjamin Ford, a specialist in defusing bombs (how ironic) who was in town to protect Obama during a visit to the UN. This is how the incident took place: Ford was outside McCoy's Bar in Hell's Kitchen in the early hours of Sept. 26 when the attack went down, police said. Hayes and two friends, Alec Bell and Danny Calvert, say Ford flicked a cigarette at them, then told Calvert, 'Keep moving, faggot.' He also allegedly called Bell a 'homo.' Bell and his pals returned fire by making fun of the suspect's baldness, cops said. That's when things exploded. Hayes told cops that Ford shoved him and Calvert and then clocked Bell in the face. 'Die of AIDS, you f------ queers,' Ford allegedly yelled at the trio before going back inside the Ninth Ave. bar." DISGUSTING!! The Daily News is reporting that the Task Force tracked Ford down to a base outside of London and there will likely be prosecution. An NYPD Intelligence Division officer spoke to Ford who admitted he was at the scene, saying his victims started the fight. Surveillance video, however, shows Ford attacking them, a source tells the Daily News. According to a source, the NYPD and Manhattan prosecutor's office, after consulting the three gay victims, have agreed to let the U.S. military try Ford and dole out any punishment if he is found guilty in the attack. Ford has not been formally charged. String that mo'fo' up!!! I'm just glad he was found, but how shameful that he is a military man. [source]
Friday, January 22, 2010
NYC GAY-BASHER IDENTIFIED AS AIR FORCE SERGEANT
It's nice to put a name to a douche bag! In September, Blake Hayes, a gay man living in New York City, was attacked outside a bar in Hell's Kitchen, a very gay-friendly area of Manhattan. When Hayes and his two friends who witnessed the incident, Danny Calvert and Alec Bell, tried to report the incident to the police, they refused to take a report. Well the Hate Crimes Task Force immediately went to work to get to the bottom of this act of bigotry. The asshole, who was captured on surveillance video, has been found and identified as Staff Sergeant Benjamin Ford, a specialist in defusing bombs (how ironic) who was in town to protect Obama during a visit to the UN. This is how the incident took place: Ford was outside McCoy's Bar in Hell's Kitchen in the early hours of Sept. 26 when the attack went down, police said. Hayes and two friends, Alec Bell and Danny Calvert, say Ford flicked a cigarette at them, then told Calvert, 'Keep moving, faggot.' He also allegedly called Bell a 'homo.' Bell and his pals returned fire by making fun of the suspect's baldness, cops said. That's when things exploded. Hayes told cops that Ford shoved him and Calvert and then clocked Bell in the face. 'Die of AIDS, you f------ queers,' Ford allegedly yelled at the trio before going back inside the Ninth Ave. bar." DISGUSTING!! The Daily News is reporting that the Task Force tracked Ford down to a base outside of London and there will likely be prosecution. An NYPD Intelligence Division officer spoke to Ford who admitted he was at the scene, saying his victims started the fight. Surveillance video, however, shows Ford attacking them, a source tells the Daily News. According to a source, the NYPD and Manhattan prosecutor's office, after consulting the three gay victims, have agreed to let the U.S. military try Ford and dole out any punishment if he is found guilty in the attack. Ford has not been formally charged. String that mo'fo' up!!! I'm just glad he was found, but how shameful that he is a military man. [source]
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Disgusting!! What is really shameful is that if the military probably will not punish him at all... This should be charged prosecuted as a hate crime in NYC... Disgusting!!
ReplyDeleteAgreed that this should be charged as a hate crime, HOWEVER in reporting this story I'm disappointed by the use of "String that mo'fo' up!!!" It has never been advantageous to fight hate with hate. If we advocate restraint and respect we have to reflect those values in how we deal with the most difficult of situations. Otherwise, all we're providing is more gasolene for the fire.
ReplyDeleteI understand that side too, but I was of course using the "string up that mo'fo'" as a joke. That being said, I do think in a perfect world anyone inflicting pain or death on another person should be punished in a like manner. That's just me.
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