Arrest made in pizzeria attack on drag performer
According to The Washington Blade: D.C. police announced Tuesday night that they have arrested one of two female suspects wanted for the June 23 assault against a gay male drag performer inside a pizzeria on 14th Street, N.W. that was captured on video and created an uproar in the LGBT community.
In a statement released shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday, police said 28-year-old Raymone Harding of Gaithersburg, Md., was arrested earlier that day and charged with simple assault in connection with the attack against Miles Denaro, 24.
Denaro told police and the Blade that the two women dragged him by his hair across the floor at Manny & Olga’s pizza carry out restaurant at 1841 14th St., N.W., while they punched and kicked him in the face and body. He said the assault began after the women made fun of his makeup and one of them touched his face and the other slapped him.
He said he was dressed as a woman when he entered the restaurant shortly after finishing a drag performance at the nearby Black Cat nightclub.
A video of the altercation involving drag performer Miles Denaro early Sunday morning at Manny & Olga’s pizzeria on 14th Street, N.W., shows these two women assaulting Denaro as one of them drags him by his hair across the floor. (Screen captures)
A video taken of the incident, which was posted on at least three websites, including briefly on YouTube, shows bystanders laughing and cheering while employees of the restaurant look on without trying to stop the altercation.
Denaro said the women called him a “tranny” and “faggot.”
The second of the two women implicated in the assault filed a police report on the night of the incident accusing Denaro of assaulting her by biting her on her thigh. Denaro said he bit the woman in self-defense as she was pulling out his hair and the other woman held him down on the floor.
“At that time, with my face on the ground in her legs, the only thing to help get out of it was to bite her,” Denaro told the Blade.
The police report filed by the second woman identifies her as Rachel Manna Sahle, 22, also of Gaithersburg.
The police statement announcing the arrest says the case remains under investigation.
This is NOT a win for the LGBTQ Community what is being failed to mention in this entire article is that it was NOT a homophobic attack. There were gay and racial SLURS from both ends. And the fight did not occur until Denaro spat in the face of one of the women then they attacked in retaliation! After the fight it was said according to the Ladies that Denaro told them NOW YOU HAVE AIDS! And Denaro did admit he’s HIV positive.
WATCH HERE:
So in truth this was nothing more than a drunken brawl gone out of control and now if anything with the transmission of blood from Denaro to the ladies YES! They’re now in danger of contracting the HIV virus NOT CUTE! Either all parties should be arrested, or they all should NOT be charged and SHAME on D.C Gay activists making this out to be something it wasn’t. Also shame on The Washington Blade for in their original story they sure didn’t moderate the comments whereas many gay people were screaming NIGGER all through the comment section. You can CLICK HERE to read that!
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