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News: Woman, mom attacked after being mistaken as gay couple
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Woman, mom attacked after being mistaken as gay couple
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A New York City woman has six stitches and needs a cane to walk after she and her mom were attacked by fellow restaurant patrons who yelled antigay slurs at them. Their attackers apparently mistook the mother and daughter for lesbians on a date as they ate dinner at a Manhattan restaurant, TV station WCBS reported Thursday.
Tiffany Santiago, 27, told the New York Daily News, "As soon as I sat down I heard the word 'lesbian,'" and speculated that because she and her mother look close in age, and she wears her hair short, the three suspects may have thought they were on a date.
Police told the paper that during the incident, which detectives are investigating as a hate crime, Santiago was dragged across the floor of the East Side Korean restaurant by her legs after being pelted with lime wedges and balled napkins.
Describing the suspects, police told the Daily News they are searching for two women and one man, who can be seen in the video from WCBS below.
Santiago told the paper that the male suspect stripped and assaulted her: "As I’m fighting to get to my mom, he pulls down my shirt. [The woman with dirty-blond hair] pushes me out of the way and then he throws me across the room.
"I’m now bleeding, my top is half off, and I get up and I can see he’s punching my mom in the arm and his girlfriend is on top of her.”
Santiago needed six stitches to close the wound on her knee, and according to the Daily News, her mother also suffered cuts and bruises in the melee.
"I have bruises all over. I had cuts all over my back from the cracked beer bottles," she told the paper, explaining that she fell on shards of glass when she was shoved.
"I don't feel safe. This happened in a nice area. These were adults. Now I'm looking everywhere. I'm afraid," she said.
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http://www.advocate.com/crime/2015/9...-lesbians-date
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Oh my god  Even in a progressive city in New York, very scary that this stuff still happens.
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A mother and daughter shared details Friday with the Daily News of how they were simply trying to enjoy a late-night dinner when they were assaulted by a belligerent group of diners who began by spewing anti-gay slurs.
Police have said that three people — two women and a man in their mid-30s — dragged the daughter, Tiffany Santiago, 27, across the floor of BarKogi restaurant on Second Ave. by her legs after they hurled lemon and lime wedges, balled up napkins and anti-gay slurs at her and her 46-year-old mother, during the 1 a.m. dinner last Saturday.
The trio immediately began harassing them after they sat down at the eatery near E. 51st St., she said.
“As soon as I sat down, I heard the word ‘lesbian,’” said the younger woman. “My mother and I look very close in age. They must’ve thought we were on a date.”
Santiago said the three suspects, who were seated with another man and all appeared to be drunk, were in the booth directly behind them.
“I assumed they were just talking amongst themselves, having a conversation. But after we finished ordering, I felt something hit my right shoulder.” That something was a balled-up bit of wet napkin.
A fusillade of curses followed, she said, and that’s when Santiago’s mother, who asked not to be named, said she confronted the group.
“I said, ‘Excuse me, what’s wrong with you? That’s my daughter. I don’t like what you’re saying.’ ”
“After this, the brunette gets up,” Santiago said. “She said, ‘I can take you, let’s go!’ ”
Santiago said she tried to defuse the situation, but the dark-haired woman then attacked her from behind before setting on her mother, she said. Then the woman’s boyfriend jumped into the scrum.
“As I’m fighting to get to my mom, he pulls down my shirt. (The brunette) pushes me out of the way and then he throws me across the room.
“I’m now bleeding, my top is half off, and I get up and I can see he’s punching my mom in the arm and his girlfriend is on top of her.”
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http://nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-...icle-1.2366585
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I am truly saddened by this. I hope they both recover.
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Omg so sad. People are crazy.
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This is so disgusting and disturbing. I don't know how anyone, even someone who is homophobic, could attack two people in public and harm them in such a bad way.
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Who will survive in America?
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wtf???????
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Originally posted by ClarksonSlays
Oh my god Even in a progressive city in New York, very scary that this stuff still happens. |
One of these cases happen every year here. Last time a gay couple got attacked with a chair in some restaurant
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Originally posted by Caesar
One of these cases happen every year here. Last time a gay couple got attacked with a chair in some restaurant
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That was earlier this year and it wasn't an anti-gay attack. The man who attacked them was gay himself.
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Wait..this happened in MANHATTAN!?? how in the hell..
seriously???
praying for these girls..this is unreal
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I am utterly disgusted that some people will get out of their way to hurt people they don't even know.
Lock them up and never let them go. Holy ****.
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The ****ery
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Originally posted by AlphaOmega
Wait..this happened in MANHATTAN!?? how in the hell..
seriously???
praying for these girls..this is unreal
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Why are you surprised? There were a number of attacks on gay men in Chelsea these past few years...
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Wow scary I hang out near east 51st street sometimes 
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Originally posted by Priyanka Chopra
Why are you surprised? There were a number of attacks on gay men in Chelsea these past few years...
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Maybe i'm under a rock because I haven't read about violent attacks at all..
Then again, I don't hang around Chelsea.
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The attackers need to grow tf up. Not everyday a try for relevancy amongst your pathetically small circle of friends.
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