A young teenaged couple was attacked by a group of young males using homophobic epithets and then one of the couple stepped in to protect his boyfriend and was punched sending him to hospital that left him with a mild concussion and brain swelling.
“We don’t like seeing gay people on our street,” one said, according to what Peacock and Metcalf recalled to the Salt Lake Tribune reporter Wednesday, and walked toward them. Metcalf remembers the individual taking off his shirt and trying to taunt the couple. “Do we turn you on?” he asked, flexing his chest.
Three others in the car laughed as they filmed their friend outside. The young man then walked up and pushed Metcalf in the shoulder, Metcalf recounted.