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May 19, 2015 Liam Mathews

WCBS’s Alex Silverman reports that the man who viciously attacked two gay men with a chair in a Chelsea barbecue restaurant on May 5 has been identified as Bayna El-Amin. According to Silverman, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce called El-Amin a “career criminal,” and a Google search turns up arrest records in New York […]

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May 8, 2015 Liam Mathews

On Thursday, police released new security camera footage of the man suspected of brutally smashing a chair over Ethan York-Adams’ head during an apparent anti-gay attack on Cinco de Mayo in Chelsea. The assault is now being investigated as a possible hate crime. […]

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May 6, 2015 Liam Mathews

In a horrifying assault caught on video, a man named Ethan York-Adams was smashed over the head with a heavy wooden chair while helping his boyfriend Jonathan Snipes get away from a man who had been beating him and saying anti-gay slurs. The assault happened Tuesday night in a Chelsea barbecue restaurant and was filmed […]

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