{"id":36756,"date":"2016-04-11T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=36756"},"modified":"2016-04-11T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:34:03","slug":"employee-at-the-abbey-in-west-hollywood-claims-he-was-attacked-for-being-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=36756","title":{"rendered":"Employee at The Abbey in West Hollywood Claims He Was Attacked for Being Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=36757\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36757\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chris-dela-cruz-e1460333402774-560x499.jpg\" alt=\"chris dela cruz\" width=\"560\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chris-dela-cruz-e1460333402774-560x499.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chris-dela-cruz-e1460333402774.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris De La Cruz, a catering and events coordinator at West Hollywood bar The Abbey, says <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/man-allegedly-attacked-in-west-hollywood-over-being-gay\/1284015\/\" target=\"_blank\">he was attacked on\u00a0Friday<\/a>\u00a0night by two men in ski masks who held a knife to his face, punched him, told him \u201cyou better not scream,\u201d called him a \u201cf***ing faggot\u201d and, after he asked what they wanted, stole his money and credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>Wrote Cruz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10209441703423304&amp;set=a.2231079260279.130746.1346796472&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">who goes by Christopher Burton on Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">\u201cTonight as I was headed to my car I was attacked and harassed. And my face a pushed to the ground and punched several times. They tried to put a knife against my face but was lucky enough to run and get away. Please watch out and always make sure you have someone with you at night. My cards were taken from me and I don\u2019t know who or where they went. Please share and help me find the a**holes who attacked me tonight in West Hollywood.\u00a0<a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/help\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\">#Help<\/a><\/span><\/span><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftTagList\" class=\"fbPhotoTagList\"><span class=\"fcg\">\u2014\u00a0<span class=\"ogTagItem\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"_agk img\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/v2\/yM\/r\/0DS5iccvr6C.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=16%2C16&amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/v2\/yM\/r\/0DS5iccvr6C.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=16%2C16&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>feeling abused in\u00a0<span class=\"fbPhotoTagListTag withTagItem tagItem\"><a class=\"taggee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/West-Hollywood-California\/109434625742337?ref=stream\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=109434625742337\">West Hollywood, California<\/a><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz filed a report with the police the next day. The police department says it will investigate and is searching for any surveillance video that might offer them a clue about De La Cruz\u2019s claims. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/04\/west-hollywood-hate-crime\/\">Towleroad<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris De La Cruz, a catering and events coordinator at West Hollywood bar The Abbey, says he was attacked on\u00a0Friday\u00a0night by two men in ski masks who held a knife to his face, punched him, told him \u201cyou better not scream,\u201d called him a \u201cf***ing faggot\u201d and, after he asked what they wanted, stole his [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[5876,6072,6073,5808,6074,6075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36759,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36756\/revisions\/36759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}