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New York City police are investigating a possible anti-gay hate crime after a man was attacked inside a CVS over the weekend.
Police say a suspect punched the 24-year-old victim in the back of his head and neck while saying remarks about the man s perceived sexual orientation. The incident occurred just as the victim was entering the store at 5 Pennsylvania Plaza on Saturday. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
The unidentified attacker then fled on foot at 34th Street towards 9th Avenue, according to police.
have to combat hate and sexism and bigotry and anti-gay bias, you name it, we have to name it. we have to say it. we have to have that courage. and we cannot just resort to ilhan omar, she apologized and i think ended up by having a resolution to be against all forms of hate to see what then happened this week was the right thing to do. congresswoman love? this is years after representative omar made some comments too. look, all i have to say is, what is our responsibility in all this? i get so tired of the blame game, it s because of somebody else that we re doing this. when do we take responsibility for our own actions? when i was in high school, i remember teaching a swimming class. after six weeks of teaching this little boy, he looks at me and he says, i want you to know my parents don t like you because you re brown, but i do, you re my favorite teacher. what i realized in that moment is that racism isn t in your dna. it s taught. it s a nasty seed that grows and
mentioned he condemned the attacks. none of us can be emphatic enough in our condemnation of hate in all of its forms. that s why we have to step back and talk about what we can do about it. and i ll give you an example. when white nationalism reared its ugly head in the house of representatives, the republican leader kfin mccarthy stripped steve king of his committee assignments. representative omar still sits on the foreign affairs committee after her anti-semitic comments because democrats and nancy pelosi refuse to do anything about it. that s a very shameful comparison to make, congressman. i m disappointed you d use this moment to do that. steve king has, for years, made all sorts of horrendous comments that have gone without a deafening silence from your party. and i think this is a moment to lift this up. you are correct, jake. the president did not specifically call out white nationalism and the way that we have to combat hate and sexism and bigotry and anti-gay bias,
legal attorney for lamb da legal. sure. what kind of message does this verdict send? i think the message sends to all of us that we need to do more to take seriously the threat of anti-gay bias, particularly for our young people. okay. does this set any sort of precedent for future hate crime cases? do you think they ll be looking at this as something to compare it to? i think a lot of people are looking right now at hate crime prosecutions and what this all means. to me, the visibility of the case is particularly important because it means that we re all going to understand better that we need to take care of our youth and to heighten the awareness of people to the damage that can be done without better education about prejudice and at the reach of these crimes. but this is not a classic hate crime case, right? there are all sort of almost