As police and officers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, examine a collection of anti-LGBTQ incidents, a person who was affected is talking out in opposition to hate.
The Provincetown entertainer was strolling dwelling round 10 p.m. Tuesday when he noticed a gaggle of individuals in a automobile sped by.
“Hurling slurs at folks,” he mentioned. “Each racial and anti-LGBTQIA. They usually threw one at me, as effectively.”
John, who did not need his final title used, obtained out his telephone hoping the automobile would circle again.
“I attempted to observe them, as a result of I am not one to again away,” mentioned John. “And I wished to see if I may discover their license plate, and certain sufficient, they got here again down Bradford Road once more.”
He obtained the license plate and known as police.
Investigators inform us the folks within the automobile had been recognized and expenses are pending.
“It is unhappy,” mentioned John. “It is heartbreaking. This city is thought for being accepting and peaceable, so to have one thing like that occur is unusual.”
City officers say has been a collection of comparable incidents in current days.
Police in Provincetown are investigating a potential hate crime after a person reported being attacked by three individuals who jumped out of a automobile within the Cape Cod city. Here is what he mentioned concerning the incident.
Chris Kostka informed NBC10 Boston this week he was overwhelmed up early Monday morning by three males who got here out of nowhere and threw him to the pavement.
It additionally occurred on Bradford Road.
It is unclear if the identical persons are accountable.
City officers say they’ll have extra officers on obligation all through the subsequent a number of days to assist search for suspicious and doubtlessly dangerous exercise, and to be a visual presence through the busy vacation weekend.
“These occasions are disturbing, and we share the worry and discomfort they’re inflicting in our neighborhood,” City Supervisor Alex Morse mentioned in a press release Wednesday.
“It made me mad, as a result of it is simply so uncalled for,” mentioned John. “They got here right here with goal to do this, and it is not OK.”
