UPDATE: SHOW ME WHERE THE GROUP OF ATTACKERS WASN'T BLACK AND I'LL PULL THE DIARY.
Two White gay males were viciously attacked by a group of Blacks yelling an anti-gay slur as they walked back to their car after a Britney Spears concert in Newark, NJ, on Tuesday, leaving one of the men hospitalized.
"Bobby Daniel Caldwell, 36, and his partner Joshua Kehoe, 25, both from Kearny, said they were returning to their car parked near Raymond Boulevard and Broad Street from the Prudential Center at approximately 11 p.m. when a group of 15 to 20 teenage girls and boys approached them from the opposite direction and then punched and kicked them as they yelled an anti-gay slur."
Reports the Newark Star-Ledger. The group also stole Kehoe’s cell phone.
The vicious attackers left Daniel Caldwell seriously injured:
"Caldwell was not as lucky. He suffered a broken jaw that doctors had to fix by inserting two metal plates and wires, Kehoe said. For the next several weeks, Caldwell has to subsist on a liquid diet, Kehoe said. "
Reports the Ledger.
"Kehoe said the crowd deliberately targeted him and his partner because they were gay. McCarthy said while they have not determined if it was a bias incident, investigators were busy today interviewing the victims and looking at surveillance footage."
Kehoe said he was positive it was a bias incident because they used an epithet commonly used to demean homosexuals. "No matter how you look at it, it is a hate crime," he said.
Steven Goldstein, chairman of Garden State Equality, a New Jersey gay rights organization, said his group is looking into the attack.
"You have two people have the living daylights beaten out of them, while they are called a (epithet)," he said. "If that's not a hate crime then I don't know what it is."
And as if this horrifying incident couldn’t get any worse, the Newark police repeatedly ignored Kehoe’s attempts to flag police cars down for assistance as he stood alone on the hostile street after his partner was taken to the hospital.
"Kehoe said he had to wait for police for 45 minutes at the site of the assault even though several squad cars passed the scene. Kehoe said a security guard at a nearby building and two passersby called police, with one of them even flagging down a patrol car that drove away. "
"It was like you were in a town with no police and people on the loose," Kehoe said.
Reports the Ledger.
Black hate and homophobia against the LGBT community must end now. Newark mayor Cory Booker needs to appoint a special panel to investigate this hate crime and must prosecute the criminal gang that did this, and he needs to identify and fire those police that ignored Mr. Kehoe as is stood alone on the hostile street having just been viciously attacked and beaten.
Rachel Maddow should also do a segment on this outrage and bring on Mayor Booker to hold him to account.
African-Americans of all people should know how it feels to be treated and abused as second-class citizens. So why are so many African-Americans so quick to deny the rights of the LGBT community (Prop 8) and to viciously perpetrate vicious anti-gay hate crimes?