Alleged victim Dwayne Buckle had just shouted, “Calm down, woman,” as the sapphic septet surrounded him on a Greenwich Village sidewalk last August, an eyewitness told a jury yesterday.
“She was like, ‘I’m not a woman! I’m a n-! I’m a man!’ ” tattoo and graffiti artist Louis Barak testified of the only “dialogue” he could remember from the predawn beat-down at Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street.
“It stuck out in my mind, because it was pretty bizarre.”
Barak added that Buckle did not attack them first and said he saw one woman “swipe” a knife at Buckle, who was beaten, kicked, and stabbed after a melee that was caught by a surveillance camera.
http://gothamist.com/2007/04/13/shes_not_a_woma.php
Even though the surveillance video was a few minutes long, and shows in detail the women attacking Buckle, there is a brief second on the video where Dwayne Buckle manages to get the women away from him, he is trying to ward off the assailants. The defense lawyers tried to fool the jury into believing Dwayne was attacking the women in some sort of violent anti homosexual incursion.
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