The State - News from Oct. 28, 1988

A man accused of biting two San Diego police officers during a scuffle at a 1986 Gay Pride Parade has been found innocent of all charges. Prosecutors said Brian Barlow, 41, told the two officers that they should get themselves tested for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, although he refused to submit to testing. Barlow, who recently moved from San Francisco to Long Beach, was charged with biting Officers Ray Shay and George Ground while they were breaking up a confrontation between Barlow and fundamentalist Christian hecklers. A San Diego Superior Court jury found Barlow innocent on two counts of battery and one count of interfering with a police officer. Juror Russ Hamm said the panel was not persuaded that police had a reason to detain Barlow and that it therefore had no choice but to acquit him.