Sinema, Kelly help advance bill to combat hate crimesįortune said the two men were impaired and could not provide details of the fight when police tried to gather information from them. Police said one of the men pointed to a woman and said she hit him. Mercedes Fortune, a spokesperson for Phoenix police. Phoenix fire personnel provided medical treatment for the two men, said Sgt. on Monday and found two men with injuries on their faces. The Instagram post said the back of Haro's head was swollen and that De Los Reyes Lugo's face was swollen with a potentially fractured nose.Ī Phoenix police spokesperson said police responded to a fight at a business near Fourth and Roosevelt streets, where The Golden Margarita is located, at about 1 a.m. The four Phoenix police officers who responded to the incident were dismissive, said the NAACP and Unity Collective, adding "this was not a bar fight."
The two men and their friend called police after they said restaurant security "failed to protect them," according an earlier statement from activists. Tyree said Haro was pushed outside and was hit in the head, though he is unsure how or who pushed him outside. De Los Reyes Lugo then returned and was also assaulted, she said. The person continued to tell him he couldn't be there, Tyree said, and then told him "they don't do that gay (expletive) here." Tyree said Haro didn't understand what was happening and thought maybe he missed a sign. While Haro was in the bar trying to get a drink, another patron told him he "couldn't be there," Tyree said. Sarah Tyree, criminal justice chair for the west Valley NAACP, said Haro entered the bar while De Los Reyes Lugo went back outside to the car with a friend to get his ID. People were laughing instead of helping," the description for the Instagram post said. "One of the guys who assaulted us did have a gun he was trying to pull out until my friend started screaming for help. The video then shows De Los Reyes Lugo with blood stains on his shirt. "Me and my man got attacked by a lot of straight men tonight." "Tonight, everybody knows that it was Fernando's birthday and my anniversary, so we went downtown," Haro said in the video. 'People were laughing instead of helping'Īn Instagram post from an account named gayprideapparel, which has more than 44,000 followers, shared a video from one of the men with details about what happened.