Victim In Bar Rampage Charges He Was Mistreated Because He Is Gay

NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - One of the men attacked in a gay bar by a hatchet-wielding teenager filed a complaint with the state alleging paramedics gave him substandard treatment because he is gay.
Robert R. Perry was hit in the head with the hatchet and shot in the back by 18-year-old Jacob D. Robida, who later killed himself during a police chase. Two other men also were injured in the attack early Feb. 2 in Puzzles Lounge.
In a complaint filed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Perry says the New Bedford paramedics took too long taking him to a hospital, were physically and verbally abusive, and shared private medical information with his family without his permission.
“There wasn’t just hatred in the bar that night,” said Perry, 52, of Dartmouth. “We had hatred in the ambulance, too.”
James Trout, director of New Bedford’s EMS Department, told The Standard-Times of New Bedford he would not comment.
from The Boston Herald

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