NYC Restaurant Basher( alleged) is Sought by Police
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| This is the chair attacker identified as “trade’ (closeted gay or the closeted gay partner) and is known in gay partying circles. Police still looking for him as of the edition of this report. |
So as it was suspected all along the chair throwing dude is a closet gay. That will explain why he is hiding and has not come fourth to plea his side of the event. Some black witnesses accused the “white media” say what??? 1969 again? of making this guy throw the chair…no Im not sorry making this guy a homophobe. Gay or straight Im sorry to say (maladjusted or sick person) can be a homophobe: As a matter of fact study after study shows that most homophobes are afraid of gays because they are one!
This is not a complicated case and it happens more often than anybody would admit. A fight between closet gays and out gays. Both sides can recognize each other without saying any words and thus bias towards the other has a lot to do in these cases. I picked this story out to highlight the situation between the principals I just mentioned and because there was a chair involved which could have easily been a knife or gun had “trade” been packing or the other parties involved. Once you use a weapon any outcome is possible. I also live in NYC and even not a bar person I am well versed on our community and don’t like to pass on on stories that need another point of view or not being reported at all. In this case there s a lot of opinions particularly about “black bias” that has no call here. Not every time you have a white and non white at each others throat is bias and if it is it runs on both sides.
The thing I could not understand right away was why “trade” was not coming fourth and explaining his side but then when a person identified him as gay everything was clear to me. Imagine the fear of being outed for ’trade’ is worse than the fear of being on the run from the police and being arrested.
I am sure that by now all the parties involved are feeling bad about this and probably thinking it was not worth it. Given the history of gay bashing particularly in NYC, cases that look as gay bashing are better given the benefit of the doubt than ignored. The message has to be out that a basher is a basher. One cannot claim self defense when insulted or even punched and the response is overkill with a weapon. That Im sure “trade” either knows already or will soon find out if he is charge with assault even though I see this being plea down to something that carries not jail. How do I know? Many years back, someone used a bat (karate stick?) on my head and though initially charged with aggravated-assault, the only jail time they did was the 24 hours when they were arrested. After that it was a fast stairway down the plea bargain all the way to 1 yr. probation. It took a year of court continuances to come down to that. Every case is different but the wheels of justice in NYC run slow and it takes many decades to even move an inch in direction of change.
Police have released new surveillance video of the suspect in the alleged bias attack which took place at a Dallas BBQ in Chelsea earlier this week.
The Hate Crimes Task Force are investigating the attack on Jonathan Snipes and his boyfriend Ethan York-Adams, who were celebrating Cinco de Mayo on Tuesday when they ended up in a brawl with another patron who they say repeatedly called them gay slurs, and hit them over the head with a chair
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The two men had accidentally knocked over a drink as they were leaving the restaurant, which led to a verbal confrontation with the other table, which then became physical. "A table near us audibly started making pretty gross comments about the two of us like, 'White f----ts, spilling drinks,'" Snipes told DNAInfo. "I don't let anyone talk to me like that. I went over there and asked, 'What did you say about us?'"
The NYPD describes the suspect as "a light complexioned male black, wearing a black blazer and a white shirt." Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
While the police are still trying to track down the suspect, it seems there are many people online who are already aware of his identity. A counter-narrative has sprung up to Snipes's account, alleging that he was the aggressor, and the suspect is a gay man himself. Waddie Grant Jr. writes on G-List Society that the man who filmed the fight, Isaam Sharef, told him that Snipes "struck one of the Black men first which kicked off the entire brawl." More Grant Jr.’s G-List story, headlined “Gay Hate Crime Or White Gay Privileged Media Manipulation On NYC’s Chair Throwing Fight?”
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