Shaq’s Got Our Back
As I’ve written here before, I’m not much of a sports fans. Rarely has ESPN been viewed on our television. I can’t’ even even tell you how many innings there are in basketball. Nonetheless, I have a new a favorite sports hero. It’s Shaquille O’Neal, who rose to his full height to stop a gay basher from going unpunished.
Shaquille O’Neal provided an assist to police over the weekend, trailing a man who allegedly assaulted a gay couple before alerting an arresting officer.
The 7-foot-1 Miami Heat center, who is in the process of becoming a Miami Beach, Fla. reserve officer, was driving on South Beach around 3 a.m. Sunday. He saw a passenger in a car yell anti-gay slurs at the couple, who were walking, said Bobby Hernandez, a spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department.
The man then got out of the car and threw a bottle, hitting one of the pedestrians, who was not seriously hurt. The man got back in the car, which sped off. O’Neal followed, flagging down an officer who made an arrest, Hernandez said.
Yeah, it something I’d like to think anyone would do upon witnessing such an attack. But, remembering that we live in Dubya’s America now, I think acts like this need to be recognized when and where they occur.
Via Queer Day, Gay News Blog and Queerty.