Posted March 17, 200916 yr Gay couple claims attack in Newark After Britney Concert was bias related Police are investigating after a gay couple from Kearny complained they were beaten by a crowd a few blocks from the Prudential Center in Newark after attending a Britney Spears' concert there Saturday night. Joshua Kehoe, 25, said he and his partner, Bobby Daniel Caldwell, 36, were returning to their car near Raymond Boulevard and Broad Street when a group of 15 to 20 youths surrounded the couple and began beating them. Kehoe said that the attackers deliberately targeted him and his partner because they were gay, but Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's office said that police did not believe the incident was bias related. "They were saying words like 'f*****'," Kehoe said, "No matter how you look at it, it is a hate crime." Kehoe said a security guard at a nearby building and two passersby called the police. They waited about 45 minutes for police to arrive, according to Kehoe even though about three squad cars passed the scene. When cops finally arrived, Caldwell was taken to University Hospital with his jaw broken in two spots. "Half of his jaw is in the back of his mouth," Kehoe said, "It happened so fast, they were just kicking and kicking us. I've never seen anything like this." Kehoe said he is hopeful that the attackers will be found and brought to justice. "They said they have cameras on all of the buildings, and that they could view it, and see faces," he said. "I just want the cops to do something." Source: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/g...at_brtiney.html
