Gina Adams
An Austin lesbian was out on the town celebrating a friend’s birthday June 25 when she said a bartender threw her on the ground and beat her.
Gina Adams, who works at a nearby bar, said she and her friends were bar hopping when she asked a male bartender at the Lodge Bar if they had drink specials after saying she worked at Rusty’s bar, according to Fox 7.
The man motioned for her to come around to the other side of the bar and then grabbed her, threw her on the floor and beat her repeatedly.
“He looks at me, grabs me and just throws me right behind the bar, doesn’t say a word to me. I try to get up and he threw me down again and he did this like four or five times,” she told Fox 7. “He had no reason, no reason at all. He didn’t know me I didn’t know him.”
Police were called and arrested the bartender for assault, but Adams told the Austin station she thinks it could have been a hate crime because the bartender could have assumed she was gay or thought she was a man hitting on him.
Although the police report doesn’t indicate the attack was motivated by bias, Equality Texas Deputy Executive Director told the station Adams could still report it as a hate crime.
“There may have been indicators of bias not noted on the night of the incident just because it didn’t click for her then,” he said. “If it clicks for her now then that’s what needs to be documented in the report and they can revisit and look at evidence from the scene.”
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