3 charged in violent attack at gay bar

(Galveston, Texas) Galveston gays are crediting police with swift action in arresting three people in connection with a violent weekend attack on two gay men in a gay bar.

One of the victims had his head split open when he was hit by a 4-pound rock. Police said both victims were inside the bar when the door to Roberts Lafitte bar suddenly opened and door stops and stones were thrown at patrons.

“I thought I had just been slapped, and the second rock hit me here,” Marc Bosaw, 57, told The Galveston County Daily News, pointing to his head were he now has 12 surgical staples.

“Everything went white in my mind, and I thought that was it. I even said ‘goodbye,”‘ Bosaw said. James Nickelson, 39, another bar patron, was hit in the jaw but did not require treatment.

As Bosaw’s partner of 13 years, Victor Clements, 47, pressed on Bosaw’s wound to stop the bleeding until an ambulance arrived, bar patrons chased the suspects until police took up the chase.

The accused were apprehended a short while later and returned to the bar where they were identified by patrons.

Lawrence Henry Lewis III, 20, Lawrneil Henry Lewis, 18, and Alejandro Sam Gray, 17, are each charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with the enhancement of a hate crime. Bond has been set at $120,000 each.

http://www.365gay.com/news/3-charged-in-violent-attack-at-gay-bar/

Personally, I'm not against the death penalty as means of deterring such depraved viciousness.

Not even 21. This is borderline irony.

"religious" prejudice.

mark

And since that did involve a religion as well, I try to avoid the issue -- I've seen posts get locked by others who just happen to bring up the qualifiers. A shame; it really is a valid issue for discussion. (incidentally, the religion at hand is not "Christianity")

* for any perceived reason.

It's blind hatred.

Their actions are not that of human beings, but sub-animal.

They have a right to dislike.

But they have NO right to throw stones to inflict harm or death.

Our "society", which shrugs off all sorts of nasty behavior as "boys will be boys", is the root cause. And it's high time that indolent mindset is stopped.

Good for the cops--they got the charge right. Any idea if these three were part of a neo-Nazi or other hate group, or merely listen to Rush Limbaugh?

...that they (the attackers) were Black...I think your suspicions may be wrong.


Hate comes from all directions...

"racial purity" isn't a belief limited to one ethnic/racial group these days. :-/

This is what should be expected as a result from shows like Rush Limbaugh or Sean hannity and all those that inspire hatred and division.

Before Stonewall, yes.
No more.

plus the ricin threat against all the gay bars in Seattle just after the election (which only brought out more people to support the bars and each other). I think the dittoheads are so pissed a black man is our Prez they are letting loose their bigotry.

I wonder if Rush speaks for them?