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Boston Man Targeted in Anti-Gay Assault Outside South End Bar

May 22, 2008 by Andy Towle

A 22-year-old student at Northeastern University was assaulted outside of Fritz bar in Boston’s South End. Daniel D’Orsi was robbed and attacked while the perpetrator yelled anti-gay slurs, resulting injuries that required facial surgery, yet because the attacker’s description matches that of a man who tried to mug a woman a week earlier, the Boston police are not investigating the incident as a hate crime:

DorsiBay Windows reports: “Boston Police are currently investigating the incident as a straightforward assault and robbery rather than as a hate crime. D’Orsi said the incident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. while walking home from the Eagle bar in the South End. … ‘He came up behind me and grabbed (my wallet) out of my back pocket, and I turned around, and that’s when he called me an f-ing faggot, all the derogatory things you could think of,’ said D’Orsi. He said when the attacker grabbed his wallet he knocked D’Orsi to the ground, and D’Orsi smashed the side of his head on the pavement when he fell. He said he blacked out at that point, but based on his injuries he believes the attacker kicked him in the face while he was lying on the ground. The attacker made off with about $140 in cash along with credit and debit cards. Rob Warner, a bouncer at Fritz, did not witness the assault, but he said he came outside just as the assailant was running up Chandler Street. He said staff from the bar called the police and an ambulance. ‘He was pretty badly beaten, actually, had blood running down his mouth and ears,’ said Warner.”

According to the paper, “A detective from D-4 involved in the case, who declined to give his name to Bay Windows, said police do not believe the mugging was a gay-bashing because the description of the assailant provided by Warner matches that of a man who attempted to mug a woman a block away on Lawrence Street about a week before D’Orsi’s assault.”

Northeastern student alleges gay bashing [bay windows]

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