Christian Dingus, 28, was with his partner when, he says, employees told the couple not to kiss inside, and the argument escalated outside.

Christian Dingus, 28, was with his partner when, he says, employees told the couple not to kiss inside, and the argument escalated outside.

A gay man accused a group of Washington, D.C., Shake Shack employees of beating him after he kissed his boyfriend inside the location while waiting for their order.

Christian Dingus, 28, was with his partner and a group of friends at a Dupont Circle location Saturday night when the incident occurred, he told NBC News. They had put in their order and were hanging around waiting for their food.

“And while we were back there — kind of briefly — we began to kiss,” Dingus said. “And at that point, a worker came out to us and said that, you know, you can’t be doing that here, can’t do that type of stuff here.”

The couple separated, Dingus said, but his partner got upset at the employee and insisted the men had done nothing wrong. Dingus’ partner was then allegedly escorted out of the restaurant, where a heated verbal argument occurred.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    619·
    3 months ago

    If you female friend wore a shirt so low cut and loose that she was flashing her tits to everyone and was asked to leave the restaurant because of it, so she started arguing and then the employee attacked her… no, her clothing did not excuse the attack. It does excuse her being asked to leave. It is pretty simple how both of those things can be true. It is pretty simple that the fact that she was attacked doesn’t make the employee asking her to leave unjustified. And if she recounted the story and said “he had a problem with my shirt that might have been a little low cut”, and failed to mention she was fully flashing people, she would be lying about the facts even if those facts, again, don’t justify the violence that followed. I don’t know why this is so complicated. Reality has nuance.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      183·
      3 months ago

      I said “If one of my female friends is sexually harassed,” and you turned that into being ‘asked to leave’.

      Two gay people were assaulted, and you turned that into a discussion about them being asked to leave.

      Pretty weird.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
        716·
        3 months ago

        They weren’t even initially asked to leave. Read his account. They were asked to stop the PDA, then the partner started to argue and then was escorted out. That is the in the victim’s own account.

    • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
      137·
      3 months ago

      Wow, now you’re using offensive tropes about women to justify your endorsement of this homophobic attack?

      Can you go no lower?