On Wednesday, July 16, 2008, Brad T. Walsh was followed down a Manhattan street and beaten by a distributor for Yuengling beer on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Spring Street. In the course of the driver's attack, he repeatedly called Walsh "faggot" and struck Walsh in his jaw. When the driver finished assaulting Walsh and got back to his truck, Walsh began copying details of the truck in order to file a police complaint. The driver asked him if he was "going to be a bitch" and "tell on [him]". Despite several witnesses, no one came forward to intervene and, instead, they continued moving on.
Walsh filed a police complaint and continues to suffer from soreness and difficulting chewing food due to the attack. When he contacted Yuengling to complain, the company claimed the driver was not their employee but that of one of their distribution companies and they refused to cooperate further in the complaint, including not revealing the distribution company in question.
We therefore ask people to boycott Yuengling until they properly address the matter and take action.
For more information, read:
http://gothamist.com/2008/07/21/yue
http://ihatebradwalsh.blogspot.com/
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