Sunday, November 20, 2022

Manhattan gay bar owner says NYPD's "nonchalant response to vandalism attacks" has "emboldened" him and reminded him "we have to protect ourselves”

Gothamist:

an unknown individual has thrown a brick at the windows of his establishment three times in the last week. In the most recent incident, just before 10 p.m. on Saturday night, surveillance footage showed a man approaching the store and heaving a heavy object at the window.

[The bar owner] said he had gone to the NYPD each time. But detectives were “dismissive” of his suggestion that the attack could be bias related, going so far as discouraging him from reporting it to the Hate Crimes Task Force