Hate Crime in Gloucester, Massachusetts....

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I have 'heard' that it started with this guys sister who was being harassed by some other girls. They complained to the bouncer and the bouncer threw them out..into any ally where 5 guys beat the shit out of the girls brother. The bar is a block away from the police station.

One arrested in man's beating outside tavern Brother says attack was a hate crime; police say more arrests possible
By Nick Curcuru
Staff Writer
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_103230258.html
Police have made one arrest in the beating of a Salem man, which a family member is calling a hate crime, and are expecting more.

William Chadwick, 21, of 5 Elwell St., Gloucester, was arrested yesterday at 3:30 p.m. on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Police said they have another suspect and are close to making an arrest.

Injured in the fracas was Justin Goodwin of Salem, who is in his 30s. His brother, David Kain of Peabody, said Goodwin's jaw was shattered, and his nose, an eye socket and a cheek bone were broken. Kain said that his brother underwent nine hours of surgery Sunday at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and is scheduled to go through more.

According to what Goodwin told him, Kain said bouncers threw his brother out of the bar after Goodwin came to the defense of his sister, who was in an altercation with several other women. Goodwin told his brother he was escorted out through a side door that leads to the alley next to the tavern.

Police said Goodwin's sister told them she was jumped by five women in the tavern's womens bathroom, and that her brother and boyfriend tried to break up the fight when she left the restroom.

According to police, the tavern bouncers kicked out everyone involved in the melee.

Goodwin, who is a homosexual, told Kain that once he was in the alley, six men shouted anti-gay slurs at him while beating him. Kain labeled the beating a hate crime.

Nick Curcuru may be contacted at [e-mail].

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1. More senseless violence

in the form of a hate crime. Sickening.