Mike
2023-04-10 03:50:25 UTC
People do not have to like or accept queers. Write it on your
forehead.
A man walking in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday was attacked by a gaggle offorehead.
seven youngsters, who he said hurled anti-gay slurs at him before
stabbing, kicking and punching him.
Rafael Ribot, 44, was talking on his cellphone while walking on Tenth
Avenue near 43rd Street around 11:30 p.m. when he was surrounded by the
horde of strangers who, unprovoked, began yelling anti-gay epithets at
him, cops said.
Ribot, who said he is gay, told WPIX that he responded to the taunts,
after which the confrontation took a violent turn, with the suspects
repeatedly punching and kicking him, before stabbing him with a knife in
the thigh, as seen on surveillance video.
They go from being in front of you, to being around you, the victim told
the station. And the words turn into fists, and then it becomes a knife,
and then possibly another knife.
The assailants then fled east on 44th Street, leaving Ribot bleeding on
the sidewalk.
A pair of good Samaritans came to his aid, tied a belt as a tourniquet
around his injured thigh and got him to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he
underwent surgery to close up the 4-inch-deep stab wound.
Ribot, who has since been discharged, said he also suffered contusions to
his face in the melee.
<https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/nyc-man-stabbed-by-seven-attackers-yelling-
anti-gay-slurs/>