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midnight

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Sun Mar 31, 2013, 10:05 PM Mar 2013

Warning tough read: Walkers Wisconsin:Rice Lake, Wisconsin, where homophobia reigns:

A gay employee of Applebee’s in Rice Lake was brutally bashed by the husband of a co-worker, then told by the restaurant’s manager he could not return to work due to publicity surrounding the incident, he said.

Timothy Phares subsequently did return to his job as a server after Greg Flynn, CEO of Apple American Group franchise, intervened on his behalf.

According to Phares and his sister Krista katherine, they were getting out of his car in the parking lot of a Perkins restaurant on March 17 when Rien Hendricks and his wife Shannon Hendricks pulled up behind them in an SUV.

“(Hendricks) was getting out of his vehicle, and he said, ‘Fucking faggot, I’m going to kill you,’” Phares said.

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2013/03/walkers-wisconsin-part-i.html


Article indicates no charge for hate crime, but I'm hoping some kind of charge is coming....

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Warning tough read: Walkers Wisconsin:Rice Lake, Wisconsin, where homophobia reigns: (Original Post) midnight Mar 2013 OP
Damn Rien Hendricks and his wife Shannon Hendricks to Hell and Damnation. nt NYC_SKP Mar 2013 #1
And the restaurant manager. Scuba Apr 2013 #2
I haven't spent much time around Rice Lake. ewagner Apr 2013 #3
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