Ottawa Redblacks investigating assault allegations against player
by News Staff
Last Updated Jun 9, 2021 at 2:10 pm EDT
CFL balls are photographed at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers stadium. (John Woods/CP)
OTTAWA – The Ottawa CFL team says it’s aware of allegations against one of its players and the organization is looking into them.
Allegations against the Redblacks player recently appeared on social media, claiming he brutally assaulted a gay man with a group of attackers in Toronto over the weekend.
Several posts online allege the victim, David Gomez, and a friend was out when a group of at least five people began shouting at them and hurling slurs until things escalated to violence.
A Toronto man says he was followed by a group of men who taunted him with homophobic slurs before beating him “nearly to death” on the Toronto Island over the weekend. In a social media post prefaced with a sarcastic “Happy Pride” David Gomez said he was on his way home from Hanlan’s Point late […]
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