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{TW: anti-LGBT bigotry. discussion of violence} Brooklyn: Police Beat Gay Man and Use Homophobic Slurs, Victim and Friends Say

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A 26-year-old gay man was beaten eight days ago just outside the 79th police precinct in Brooklyn by police officers who made homosexual slurs, the victim and two of his roommates who witnessed the incident tell the Voice.

The encounter, which took place around 4 a.m. on Sunday, June 2 and is under investigation by NYPD Internal Affairs, erupted after an officer standing in the precinct parking lot mistakenly accused one of the men of urinating on the side of the stationhouse and then called in as many as 5 other cops to join in the assault.

Williamsburg waiter Josh Williams, all of 5-foot-8, 140 pounds, suffered a laceration on his face which required four stitches, bruised ribs, a black eye and scrape on his torso. Williams and his roommates—Tony Maenza and Ben Collins, both 24—were then arrested on specious charges in what they call an effort to cover-up the attack. Maenza made an iPhone video of a portion of the incident.

The Voice has also learned that NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau started investigating after someone apparently associated with the precinct filed a complaint.

“This case is so extreme in how the encounter escalated so fast over something so silly and turned so violent,” says Williams’ lawyer Cynthia Conti-Cook. “Based on how the incident started, there’s very little to justify such extreme action other than homophobia.”