Well this is a little alarming considering that this is the subway station I use most frequently. While I don’t worry about being bashed very often (especially around where I live and in the King and Yonge area) I do worry about what would happen if someone were to bash me. I already know that I am not one to back down from a fight, through various situations which warranted force to restrain/protect others, but I’m not sure if I would know when to stop as bashings have a tendency to work me up like nothing else. My fear is I would end up with an attempted murder or murder charge, or worse I would end up in hospital or in the morgue.
I hope that the police treat do end up treating this as a hate crime as the man, while confrontational and threatening from the beginning, only became violent after he knew of the victim’s sexual orientation.