Thursday, February 12, 2009

Vancouver Gay Bashing Victims Speak Out

Jordan Smith made headlines last September when he was allegedly attacked for holding hands with another man in the gay village.

Smith’s jaw was broken in the alleged assault and had to be wired shut for a month and a half to heal.

Michael Kandola is now facing one charge of aggravated assault in connection with the incident.

According to Smith and the man he was holding hands with that night, Charles McKay, Kandola and four of his friends “swarmed” them, yelling, “You fucking faggot!”

Smith says he barely had time to register they were in trouble when a punch knocked him to the ground, unconscious.

“They hit him and he just fell over like a tree,” McKay says in his first public interview since the incident. “They stood over him still, yelling things.” (
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