A judge has issued a $50K arrest warrant for Cole White, a 24-year-old Redwood City man suspected of assaulting a gay man at a the gay-friendly Santa Cruz nightclub Blue Lagoon, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports:

The victim said White called him a gay slur outside the club. He said he saw White at the bar a few minutes later and turned to ask him if he was the man who had just verbally accosted him on the sidewalk. Instead of answering, White allegedly punched the victim in the face. The victim said he was knocked to the ground and beaten for 10-15 seconds before someone pulled him off the floor and rushed him outside.

Blue Lagoon manager Fred Friedman said the altercation actually began with bumping and name-calling inside the club, then went outside.

“This

gentleman and the other people decided to handle it themselves out on

the street,” said Friedman, who was working Saturday night and early

Sunday.

Friedman said everyone involved came back in the bar, but were thrown out by security staff before police arrived.

The victim said he snapped a

cell phone photo of the man he said attacked him, something police

later used to identify White, Friend said. But outside the bar in the

moments after the fight, 23-year-old David Douglas Cameron allegedly

grabbed the cell phone and ran toward the levee, according to police.

The victim chased after him until police took up the pursuit and

apprehended Cameron, who police said is a friend of White’s. Cameron

was arrested on suspicion of robbery.