Shortly before 2:00 a.m. last Saturday night, Seattle police responded to a call from the Filipino Community Center in the Rainier Valley, where a man says he was targeted and attacked for being gay, according to a police report.

When officers arrived, the victim, a black man in his early 20s, said he and his female friend had left the community center to grab something from her vehicle. Upon returning to the building, two men (neither Filipino) in their earlier 20s confronted the man. The men—one of whom the victim knew as a friend of his cousin—trapped the victim between two cars, and they “then punched the victim with closed fists on both sides of the victim’s face,” the report says. “Then both suspects began to yell at the victim and stated ‘You gay motherfucker.'”

Security staff working for an event inside the community center responded to the assault and apprehended the man that the victim knew. The second man, the police report says, fled the scene while yelling, “I wanna beat your ass, you gay ass motherfucker.”

The victim “believes both suspects were aware that he was homosexual,” the police report says, and “thinks that the only reason that he was assaulted is because he is homosexual.” The victim reported that he was “in pain from the assault” but did not accept medical attention.

Despite a witness’s statement to the contrary, the captured suspect “denied that he punched the victim,” the report concludes. Officers booked the suspect into jail and requested that prosecutors charge him with a misdemeanor for malicious harassment.

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  5. Well, shit. Isn’t malicious harassment a Class C felony? What’s this “misdemeanor” stuff? The only misdemeanor possibility would be if prosecutors ADD a gross misdemeanor (third degree) level assault charge. That would be on top of the Class C felony malicious harassment.

    If you ask me.

  8. @ 5 If they were making comments because the man was gay, the incident automatically becomes a hate crime. The state’s hate crime law says it’s a felony to threaten, damage the property of, or physically injure someone because of ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation.

    http://www.aclu-wa.org/detail.cfm?id=89

  10. “malicious harassment” doesn’t sound as dramatic as HATE CRIME!

    Stop being such a buzzkill, gloomy gus – we’re on a roll!

  11. you mentioned the race of the victim, but only stated that the perps of the attack were ‘not phillipino’. haha you pc dweebs are really something.

  13. if this writer got jacked, oh wait, no, if dan savage got jacked by some black hardcore gangbangers down for the cause and shit, i wonder if he would say, “no officers, it was some white homophobic rednesck racist skinheads that are all over cApitol hill. their coming down from the cd and trying to hate on our multicultural lovefest. this is a product of white hegemony. in one way or another. im not sure how. but i’ll come up with something right after i tell this post op granny transexual how to felch his (her?) bdsm lover”. fucking suckers you all.

  16. He just destroyed most of the evidence for the crime by not accepting treatment. An EMT’s report about the severity of wounds would shut the whole debate down. I feel sorry for the guy who got beat up but he is at worst an idiot and at best incompetent at navigating the legal system.

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