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Jaquan Walker, 24, worked at a BurgerFi restaurant in Miami Beach until he was the victim of a mob attack this past Sunday.
Walker told WSVN News that he was taking a group’s order when some men in the group made fun of his voice because it sounded gay to them.
“They tell me that I need to put bass in my voice,” Walker said. “They was saying ‘fa***t.'”
“They just said a whole bunch things: ‘Oh, we’re going to kill you. Oh, we’ll beat you up. You’re gay. You shouldn’t be gay.’”
Walker said that’s when the altercation turned violent. In an attack that was caught on someone’s cell phone, several customers started to beat him.
He said that he went to a nearby Miami Beach Police station after the men left and filed a criminal complaint. Police said that they’re considering it an anti-gay battery.
Walker said that he was injured in the attack: “I had scars on my neck. My arm was bruised. I still have pain on the side of my ribs, and I have cuts inside my mouth from them kicking me in my mouth and things.”
But when he got back to the BurgerFi, he said he found out that he was fired.