



Below is a video of a vicious gay-bashing in Queens. It's below the fold because it's painful to watch. But the most amazing part of the news segment is an interview with one of the suspect's buddies, who accused the victim of "coming on" to his friends and thereby deserving a beatdown - near to death. As he denies there was any anti-gay bias in the attack, he wears a proud Leviticus tattoo above. Video and news segment after the jump:

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