A popular Manhattan deejay today said cops did nothing after he and two friends were attacked in a gay-bashing incident in Hell’s Kitchen over the weekend.
“It’s the first time I have felt physically in danger. I am more angry at the lack of response than the incident,” said Blake Hayes, a disc jockey at WPLJ-FM.
“We asked several times to file a report. They never opened a pad of paper,” he said of the cops.
Blake said the incident occurred about 12:30 a.m. Saturday as he and two friends, Danny Calvert and Alec Bell, were walking by McCoy’s, a bar on Ninth Avenue and 51st Street.
A bar patron threw a lit cigarette butt at one of his friends, saying, “Keep moving, faggot,” Hayes said.
This led to angry words, and the man threw one of Hayes’ friends against a car, denting it, and punched the other friend in the face twice, the DJ said.
Hayes said the three called the police, and cops from the 18th Precinct arrived. But after talking to the men and their attacker, they refused to file a report, he said.
“They cops — the NYPD — did nothing,” Hayes said. “They wouldn’t even take the guy’s information so we could file a claim later.”
Calvert and Bell subsequently went to the 18th Precinct and filed a report, he said.
A NYPD spokesman would only say, “There is a report that was taken, and it is being investigated by hate crimes.”