$10 Million Awarded in Gay Bashing
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A homosexual man paralyzed in a gay-bashing attack as a security guard stood by won a $10-million judgment from Pinkerton’s Security and Investigation, the guard’s employer. Sean McBride, 28, was shot six times and beaten outside his apartment building in January 1994 by three men who had taunted him for being gay. His lawyer, Carol McNeilage, said the 20-year-old female security guard watched as McBride was harassed several times during a half-hour period, and even laughed at some of the insults. A spokesman for Pinkerton’s, Dereck Andrade, said the company would appeal the verdict.
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