Neil Frias (left) and Jeff White were pepper-sprayed. Photo: Jeff White / Courtesy Jeff White.
What was supposed to be a weekend of revelry and excitement for two friends in town for San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair turned ugly Saturday night when five assailants attacked the men with pepper spray for no apparent reason other than they are gay.
The violence was particularly shocking for Neil Frias and Jeff White, both 28, because they were assaulted in a city lauded for its progressive values and broad acceptance of the LGBT community.
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Frias and White said they were attacked at about 9 p.m. outside a McDonald’s at Golden Gate Avenue and Fillmore Street in the city’s Western Addition. As Frias left the fast-food restaurant, he said five men pulled up in a blue minivan. “They were saying, ‘You fags are destroying family values,’” Frias said. “I said I didn’t want any trouble, and one of them got out of the van. I thought he was going to take a swing at me, but he sprayed me across the face.”
Frias said he was hit with the unmistakable “searing sting” from the pepper spray as a second man came at him with another can of the aerosolized weapon. A third assailant, he said, attacked White, who crawled into a ball to protect his face from the painful blast.
“I was completely vulnerable,” he said. “I thought they were going to start beating me.”
A nearby woman shouted that she was calling the police, prompting the mob to jump back into the minivan and speed away. Police and paramedics responded to the attack, and the two victims returned to their Union Square hotel.
“The thing that was the most remarkable about the situation is how unprovoked it was,” White said, still reeling from the encounter Sunday morning. “I was literally tying my shoe when they came at me. It’s mind-boggling.”
“You fags are destroying family values”. Why don’t these assbrained individuals ever wonder just what kind of family values teach you that it’s perfectly okay to go out and assault people? Those are indeed values, and they are seriously bad ones. It’s past time that every person start pointing this out, in a very loud way – if your values are immoral, evil, unethical and harmful, you need to sit down, shut up, and figure out just what in the fuck is wrong with yourself. If you’re fueled by hate, sit down, shut up, and figure out just what in the fuck is wrong with you. If you think it’s a fine, upstanding thing to go out and stalk strangers and dole out violence, you need to lock yourself up in your residence until you can get that poor brain of yours exercised enough to figure out just what in the fuck is wrong with you.
Via SFGate.
“You fags are destroying family values”
I am trying to figure out which family value promotes chemical weapons attacks on strangers.
And what’s the mechanism of destroying someone else’s family values. Do physical conservation laws apply?
Marcus:
I’d like to know that too. I’d also like to know why such goblins think those are great values to have and pass on.
The concept, “Two people who love each other may marry if they wish” is destroying—DESTROYING, I tell you—the idea that “Two people who love each other may marry if they wish.”
Consider the location -- obviously, this was a False Flag Operation® conducted by Burger King™ agents!
Wake up, sheeple!
I’m pretty sure this family has rather different values and includes all kinds of people, including gay people.
Recently on my way to work I’ve been seeing a gay couple walking along holding hands. It’s sad and scary that in 2016 in Canada I keep thinking how brave they are and am terrified that something will happen to them just for being in love. I saw them walk past a construction worker who did a kinda slow double take then kept looking at them before I lost sight…
Family values: having someone to bully so there is a clear power gradient with them on top. Equal partnerships really freak out these idiots.
Dunno, seems like they have a pretty shitty set of family values, if they feel so threatened. My family values are still intact and (surprisingly!) my marriage is also still holding on. Somehow. It’s a mystery!
My heart goes out the the two victims of this assault, and I hope they don’t experience any recurring complications and can recover quickly (at least physically).
Wow. That story provoked massive, unexpected anxiety. Maybe commenting will help shed it. My teenage daughter came out a few years ago and usually I think -- fine, fine, how much the world has changed, lgbtq+ youth groups- wonderful, people who are either supportive or at least silent- great. But like a lot of things, everthing could be fine until suddenly it’s not.