Full Video: Violent Hate Attack As Diner Whacks Gay Couple With Chair In NYC Restaurant

In New York City a homophobic diner took a chair and whacked it over the heads of a gay couple after making anti-gay slurs.

Just after 11 PM Tuesday night at a popular barbecue restaurant in Manhattan’s LGBT-friendly Chelsea neighborhood a young gay couple was attacked by a man who grabbed a wooden chair and whacked them over their heads before running out the door.

The above video – caution, violent and disturbing – shows the moment of the attack. The full video is below.

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32-year old Jonathan Snipes was dining with his boyfriend, Ethan York-Adams, 25, and was in a hurry trying to leave Dallas BBQ. Snipes had just received a text about a death in the family, according to DNAinfo New York, which first reported the story, and when he got up he accidentally knocked over a drink.

“A table near us audibly started making pretty gross comments about the two of us like, ‘White f—-ts, spilling drinks,'” Snipes said.

“I don’t let anyone talk to me like that. I went over there and asked, ‘What did you say about us?'” he added.

Snipes said he’s 140 pounds, never thrown a punch in his life and felt he posed no physical threat to anyone at the table, especially the two large men there — one of whom stood about 6 feet 4 inches, according to police.

“I may be a mouthy broad, but I wasn’t going to take it to that level,” Snipes said.

One of the men stood up and escalated the verbal confrontation, Snipes said.

“He turned it into a physical altercation very quickly,” he added.

The man knocked Snipes to the ground and started kicking his face and spine, knocking loose one of his teeth, snapping the cartilage in his ear and bruising his head, he said.

He shouted, “Take that, f—-t,” according to Snipes.

Onlookers shouted “Stop! Stop! Stop!” according to a second video posted to YouTube by Isaam Sharef, who also took the Instagram video. He didn’t respond to requests for comment.

“At some point, the guy stops kicking me in the face. He’s won,” Snipes said. 

“It was disgusting. It was awful,” Snipes says. “These guys attacked us specifically because they knew we weren’t their type of people.” 

Remarkably, neither Snipes nor York-Adams were hospitalized, but it was for financial, not medical reasons.

Also remarkably, the NYPD is not investigating the incident as an anti-gay hate crime.

Here’s the full video. Again, caution, violence:

 

Video by Isaam Sharef 
Image, top and video by isaamsharef via Instagram