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William769

(55,147 posts)
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:32 PM Mar 2012

Antigay Attack Under Investigation in Ohio College Town

Two Ohio men who were beaten while walking home from a drag show were apparently targeted because they’re gay, police say.

Michael Bustin, a student at Miami University in Oxford, was walking home Saturday with a friend, with whom he briefly held hands, when he heard someone yell a derogatory term, he told Cincinnati TV station WLWT. Then four men approached them, and one began beating Bustin’s friend.

“I got in the way of the two, saying we wanted to go home. We didn’t want any harm. Then I got sucker-punched twice in the face,” Bustin said. The attackers fled after some other students intervened.

Oxford police believe Bustin and his companion were attacked because they’re gay, and the police department is working on sketches of the suspects, the TV station reports. There has also been quick reaction from the university, which sent out a bulletin about the attack, and the dean contacted Bustin.

http://www.advocate.com/Crime/Antigay_Attack_Under_Investigation_in_Ohio_College_Town/
What a bunch if bigoted bullies! can't act on their own, then when confronted my more people they run, Who's the wimps now assholes.

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Antigay Attack Under Investigation in Ohio College Town (Original Post) William769 Mar 2012 OP
That University is full mattvermont Mar 2012 #1
If the 'suspects' are found and aprehended nykym Mar 2012 #2
du rec. nt xchrom Mar 2012 #3

nykym

(3,063 posts)
2. If the 'suspects' are found and aprehended
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:47 PM
Mar 2012

and also found to be at University, I would hope that if they have scholarships they would be revoked and if not expulsion would send a message. Just like the wonderful band members at Southern Miss

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