When Gay Bashing Three People Gets You a Slap on the Wrists
Lindsay Lohan got 90 days in jail for a parole violation. So one would expect a brutal attacker to get a much higher sentence, especially if the attacker was involved in hate crimes against gay men. Unfortunately, a man involved on three assaults on gay men got half of Lohan’s sentence — a mere 45 days.Driton Nicaj, a 20-year-old man, assaulted three gay menon the Upper East Side in New York in 2009. The first victim, Joe Holladay, was assaulted on East 85th Street by five or six men, including Nicaj. They called Holladay a “faggot” and gave him a head wound that required stitches.
The hate crime charge for the Holladay attack was dismissed by the judge, Ronald Zweibel, because apparently calling someone a “faggot” is “just typical trash-talking.”
The day after he attacked Holladay, Nicaj assaulted two other men (who, according to press reports, were also gay). One of the men ended up with a broken nose and three skull fractures, requiring the insertion of a metal plate into his head. The other man needed stitches on his lip.
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