{"id":37477,"date":"2016-05-29T19:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T23:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=37477"},"modified":"2016-05-29T19:53:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T23:53:51","slug":"gay-man-drugged-and-beaten-in-west-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=37477","title":{"rendered":"Gay Man Drugged and Beaten in West Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=37480\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37480\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Brandon-Akridge-560x373.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Akridge\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Brandon-Akridge-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Brandon-Akridge.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 27-year-old gay man says he was drugged and assaulted after leaving a popular gay bar in West Hollywood, reports Los Angeles news station\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/Deputies-Investigate-Assaults-of-Gay-Men-in-WeHos-Gay-Boystown-381180751.html?t=124\" target=\"_blank\">KNBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon Akridge<\/strong> told KNBC that he only had two drinks at Mickey\u2019s before leaving the bar around 1:40 a.m. on May 21, but walking out the doors onto Santa Monica Blvd. is the last thing he remembers.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=381179881&amp;videoID=BBT9vWh57dfH&amp;origin=nbclosangeles.com&amp;sec=news&amp;subsec=local&amp;width=560&amp;height=360\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Akridge, who works as a barback at The Gold Coast Bar according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CowboyFromGa\">Facebook profile<\/a>, says he woke up in the intensive care unit of a local hospital, covered in bruises, with a laceration above his left eye, and intubated. He had no recollection of how he got there, but he\u2019s starting to piece together the early-morning attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The doctor said when he did my blood test the things that showed up in my blood were consistent with date-rape drugs,\u201d Akerman told KNBC. \u201cThe reason they don&#8217;t think I fell is there&#8217;s no scrapes. It&#8217;s all clean bruises on both sides all the way down my body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Akerman is unsure whether the attack was a hate crime, and has yet to report the assault to police, though he has set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/25e6q99r\">GoFundMe page<\/a> to help cover his medical expenses.<\/p>\n<p>But KNBC reports that the West Hollywood Sheriff\u2019s Department is investigating what some residents worry is an uptick in antigay violence in the densely populated neighborhood that will host Los Angeles Pride in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, another out man who works at a popular West Hollywood gay bar said he was jumped on his way home, in what he believes was a hate crime motivated by his sexual orientation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old gay man says he was drugged and assaulted after leaving a popular gay bar in West Hollywood, reports Los Angeles news station\u00a0KNBC.<br \/>\nBrandon Akridge told KNBC that he only had two drinks at Mickey\u2019s before leaving the bar around 1:40 a.m. on May 21, but walking out the doors onto Santa Monica Blvd. is [&#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":[6236,6235,6237,5801,6217,6075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37477"}],"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=37477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37481,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37477\/revisions\/37481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}