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Police: Attack at Salt Lake City gay gym may have been hate crime
Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, Leonard Link
Salt Lake police are investigating a possible hate crime after a man was attacked while waiting for a cab outside of a gym that caters mainly to gay men.
A 50-year-old man had left 14th Street Gym near downtown just after 12:30 am Wednesday and called a cab to pick him up. While waiting for the cab, another man approached the victim from behind, swore at him, used a slur related to sexual orientation, then hit him in the head with a bottle, said Salt Lake police detective Dennis McGowan, according to Deseret News.
The attacker ran off. Police said the victim showed signs of intoxication and was not able to give officers an accurate description of his attacker, Salt Lake Tribune reports.
The victim was bleeding profusely when the cab driver arrived. The cabbie called 911. The victim was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, McGowan said.
14th Street Gym "operates as a social club catering to gay males, and its facilities include workout rooms, two television lounges, a locker room, a hot tub, and a steam room," according to a description of it contained in an earlier lawsuit.
In April, the club prevailed in its long-running challenge to a city order that attempted to revoke its business license due to alleged sexual activity going on in its steam room.
An appeals-court judge ruled in April that there was no evidence that gym management was aware of the sexual activity allegedly observed in the club's steam room by the undercover cops during stings in 2003, 2004, and again in 2005, according to Leonard Link, a legal-issues blog.
The Utah Court of Appeals ruled that that the club could not be held accountable for activity it did not know about or encourage.
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Police: Attack at Salt Lake City gay gym may have been hate crime
Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake Tribune, Leonard Link
Salt Lake police are investigating a possible hate crime after a man was attacked while waiting for a cab outside of a gym that caters mainly to gay men.
A 50-year-old man had left 14th Street Gym near downtown just after 12:30 am Wednesday and called a cab to pick him up. While waiting for the cab, another man approached the victim from behind, swore at him, used a slur related to sexual orientation, then hit him in the head with a bottle, said Salt Lake police detective Dennis McGowan, according to Deseret News.
The attacker ran off. Police said the victim showed signs of intoxication and was not able to give officers an accurate description of his attacker, Salt Lake Tribune reports.
The victim was bleeding profusely when the cab driver arrived. The cabbie called 911. The victim was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, McGowan said.
14th Street Gym "operates as a social club catering to gay males, and its facilities include workout rooms, two television lounges, a locker room, a hot tub, and a steam room," according to a description of it contained in an earlier lawsuit.
In April, the club prevailed in its long-running challenge to a city order that attempted to revoke its business license due to alleged sexual activity going on in its steam room.
An appeals-court judge ruled in April that there was no evidence that gym management was aware of the sexual activity allegedly observed in the club's steam room by the undercover cops during stings in 2003, 2004, and again in 2005, according to Leonard Link, a legal-issues blog.
The Utah Court of Appeals ruled that that the club could not be held accountable for activity it did not know about or encourage.
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