critic arts used by yet more cell phones. burt survived. 25-year-old julio ramirez, he did not. similar incident when checking accounts from years of san dead in a taxi possibly from a drug overdose, police say. going back to that the medic earlier. one month later, an eerily similar incident that took place and took the life of 33 year old john hamburger. his mother here. new york city member eric bonjour went to the community. he put this out saying we are partnering with a new york city office of nightlife to pass out fliers in the hell s kitchen chelsea village neighborhoods on manhattan. that they were looking for volunteers to help to get the word out of this community. that was a week ago. the new york police telling abc news they have arrested six people so far. in connection with these crimes and are looking for at least two more related to this organized campaign, yasmin. that is hitting, it appears, they re not saying this yet but
bar in hell s kitchen, new york , on camera. so o media dutifully this interviewed the owner who said, quote, it feels like yetion of h anotheatr manifestation of hatew against our community. a lot of big social mediita accounts ran with that story.str ge more hate, more hate. so then this is a story that didn t get quite as much coverage. the police arrested the guy who did it. his name is sean kulen, and he was upset because of a dispute involving a friend. he didn t target the placee of because it s a bar, in fact. and we re quoting now from the rock thrower. i m myself.. i mean, come, shouldn t someone apologize? shouldn t someone admit thate? they got the facts wrong and slandered half the country on the basis of wrong facts? no, never admie t itof. never apologize. keep moving on . has pick another story to beat you over the head with . so that walsh has beennews following these stories. he has been repeatedly attacked by name, by nbc news for his dangerous anti-trans murder,
the hospital or still undergoing treatment. the accused gunman was already known to police. cnn obtained video last year aldridge surrendering to police after allegedly making a bomb threat against his own mother. police say they ll be looking into whether the attack was an anti-lgbtq hate crime. the fbi is assisting local authorities in their investigation. on sunday, members of the community held a vigil at a makeshift memorial to remember the victims of the shooting. other vigils were held across the country. the same night as that colorado shooting happened, an lgbtq bar in new york city was attacked for the fourth time. the third time in just the last week alone. the club is called verse bar in new york s hell s kitchen neighborhood the owner provided surveillance video including one video which the mar is approaching a bar and throws a huge rock through the front window. the man then doubles back passing the bar. now the owner installed shatter
stop doing this so we don t need to live in fear, so that our safe spaces continue to be safe spaces. sarah kate, this is unfortunately a case that s not isolated to one city or one state. just here in new york city for example in the area, a neighborhood of hell s kitchen there have been more police activity and police have been and resources have been sent to that area following a number of attacks on an lgbtq area bar in new york city. new york city and new york state, colorado, are typically lg lgbtq-friendly states. what do people in the community feel in states that aren t so friendly? you know, i think we re all feeling it. we all we live in a dangerous society if you are lgbtq, unfortunately, but with that said, we are survivors and we re thrivers. so as a community, we always come together and we lift each other up. i will say to that, you know, we have been counting at glaad and
safe place to live. unfortunately this doesn t speak to that. this evil act does not speak to that. but we, the police department, are here for them and will do everything in standing by them to make them feel safe again. chief, thank you so much for your time. i really appreciate your candor and the information you brought to us today. thank you, kate. i appreciate it. thank you very much. and he ll be joining in that press conference we ll be tracking later today. but much information that the police chief justice gave to us. what you re looking at on your screen, this is police in north new york are looking for this man throw that brick and run away. he s seen throwing the brick of a window of a lgbtq plus bar in new york city. it is the third time this same bar has had its windows smashed last week. these are pictures of the aftermath we re going to show you of one of the attacks at the bar, this one from tuesday and police are stepping up patrols around the city in light