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BU students: Attacked by gay bashers in Brookline, gun-wielding mugger in Kenmore Square

David Brand, a BU student, recounts an incident early Saturday on Harvard Street that still has him upset - especially since it happened around the same time as Shawn Dow's death above a bloody brawl:

... On Friday night, a group of 3 guys yelled at my friends and I when we passed them on Harvard Street.

"Fags! Hippie fags!"

Big deal. Clearly (though apparently not so clear to me when I was drunk and eager to flex my beer muscles), these kids were looking for a fight. After something, probably a beer can, struck me in the head I turned around and confronted who I thought was the leader.

Bam. Blind-sided by his friend, who unleashed a flurry of punches on my face and skull. After the "fight," we were mercifully pulled away from each other. ...

The next night, a BU student walking in Kenmore Square was robbed at gunpoint by a hoodie-wearing thug on Beacon Street:

The victim said she passed the man as he was pretending to tie his shoelace. She said she then heard him running toward her and turned to face him as he ran up behind her with his gun drawn, demanding she give him her purse.

Via the Tab's Jessica Scarpati.

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A similar thing happened to my friend a few months ago in Faneuil Hall. He was attacked by a group of homophobic dudes around 9:30pm outside of Ned Devine's.

Scary.

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What's up with the guys who wear hoodies completely cinched at the face so only their nose and a bit of the eyes are visible? Saw this in the South End yesterday afternoon... it wasn't cold enough to have one's face covered.

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Seems to be the clothing of choice for discriminating thugs these days, based on BPDNews and Brookline Police reports from the past couple of months: Preferably black and matched with black pants and a black shirt.

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After skimming through the few other posts at David Brand's blog, I can't help but wonder if he didn't have the ass-kicking coming. He seems to revel in going out and getting completely hammered as a 20 year old. My guess is we're not getting the entire story...probably because he can't remember it.

That doesn't mean the other morons were right in what they did, just that they probably didn't just jump a random person on the street.

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So a guy going out and getting "hammered" has an ass
kicking coming his way?

Way to blame the victim...

By that logic, I hope you have an ass kicking coming your way next time you're on the way home from grocery shopping...

How about your daughter, or sister getting rapped on her way home, because it was dark? Slut shoulda known not to be out at night in the city!

Come on people, some people go out to have a good, albeit drunk time with their friends. Other people go around looking for trouble, thinking that's fun.

No one "deserves" to be assaulted. No matter what your opinion is on their social activites.

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Getting rapped by anyone is not cool -- unless its Snoop -- but if you mean raped, that's kinda harsh. I'll bet what Anon was trying to say is that DB himself suggested that he was drunk and most likely looking for a fight. Back in my heavy drinking days, I got hammered many, many time but never wound up taking a beating like DB. And I don't know DB, but I know a lot of people who spend a lot of time getting hammered, and they most DEFINITELY have well-deserved ass kickings handed to them. Then again, I know a lot of other people who do NOT get hammered frequently, yet they ALSO have well-deserved ass kickings handed to them.

You're right though. No one deserves to be assaulted, unless of course they are an asshole (hammered or not), then they DO deserve to be assaulted. In fact, they're begging for it. But being drunk in and of itself is not a reason to be assaulted. I haven't read much of DB's blog, but Anon seems to think the guy deserves it, and not because he's a drunk, but because he's an asshole.

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Yep, exactly.

The guy seems like a pretty good piece of work who lets himself get drunk and lose control. His blog is purely his side of the story and not that of the other group who ended up attacking him. I *also* said that the other morons who hit him were in the wrong for sure...I didn't excuse their actions. I'm just saying that the scenario of a random group of gay-bashers wandering around A-B looking to wail on the first 2-3 guys they come across is likely a "fairy" tale.

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The reason my brother got pretty heavily involved in campaigns to oppose discrimination against gays in Oregon had nothing to do with his being gay. That's because he is not gay. He simply didn't marry until he was in his 40s.

He got involved with human rights campaigns because he was all-too aware that one need only be perceived as "gay" to be the object of everything from gay-bashing to employment discrimination. Given his marital status, he suspected that such laws as he worked to prevent would have made it legal and acceptable for employers, etc. to discriminate against him on the mere presumption of gayness.

Why that discrimination would ever be acceptable is beyond me, regarless of the drunkenness or straightness or gayness of the person under attack.

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