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   Pride Source, the website of Between the Lines, the LGBT   
   community newspaper in Detroit, has a 42-second video that shows   
   the beating of a gay man outside of Sunday's Motor City Pride   
   from a different angle than the video that has been widely seen   
   this week.   
      
   The paper's staff writes that Christin Howard, 20, left, a   
   hairstylist who goes by the name Chong Lee on social media,   
   walked away from the beating but suffered bruises, abrasions and   
   a broken finger. He will not be able to return to work until his   
   hand has healed.   
      
   Detroit police are investigating what Chief James Craig today   
   called a hate crime.   
      
   The attack started with verbal assaults and escalated into   
   physical violence with several men pushing Howard to the ground,   
   each taking turns on Howard as he lay helpless.   
      
   Howard tells the Free Press one assailant stood behind him and   
   said, ‘This (gay slur) with the long hair, you think you have a   
   right to wear long hair?’ ”   
      
   The two men pictured in the photo -- the shirtless man and the   
   one with a white T-shirt -- took part in the beating from the   
   beginning of the video, which shows the assault taking place   
   along the riverfront, just adjacent to Hart Plaza, where the   
   festival took place.   
      
   The video shows the man in the T-shirt landing a heavy blow to   
   Howard, and both men are shown kicking Howard after he had   
   fallen to the grass.   
      
   "Violence directed at LGBT people because they are LGBT is   
   disproportionately high in this country, and LGBT people of   
   color are at an even higher risk of more brutal and vicious   
   attacks," Director of Victim Services at Equality Michigan,   
   Yvonne Siferd said.   
      
   "It never ceases to amaze me that others are so concerned with   
   how we live our lives that they feel emboldened to violently   
   attack us for simply being ourselves. Our eleted officials can   
   send a powerful message that this type of hate is not tolerated   
   in Michigan by speaking out against attacks like these and   
   amending Michigan's hate crimes law to include LGBT victims."   
      
   WXYZ-TV reports that the attack was unprovoked and started with   
   comments about Howard's long hair, escalating into homophobic   
   slurs and violent threats.   
      
   http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/9562/these_two_bullies_s   
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