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Bayna El-Amin is a U.S. fugitive currently wanted by the New York Police Department in connection with a brutal assault on two men at a Dallas BBQ restaurant in Chelsea, New York City. The attack received wide news coverage after video taken by a bystander was released online.{fact}

On June 16, 2015, the New York Daily News reported that El-Amin surrendered to the NYPD. Police sources indicated he was not charged with a hate crime because although he attacked a gay couple, he claims he is also gay himself.

Video
In the video, the two men are seen at the edge of the frame, apparently minding their own business, when a woman is heard screaming "Stop! Stop!" as the "hulking" frame of El-Amin walks into the shot holding a heavy restaurant chair, which he raises over his had and uses to strike the two men standing nearby. The New York Daily News reported that a loud "crack" was audible as the blow struck, knocking the stunned victims to the ground and into a chair as a commotion erupted in the restaurant.

Reaction
Politicians and police officials have described the incident as a hate crime, as the two victims were gay men and El-Amin was reported to have uttered anti-gay slurs to the victims before the incident. City Council Member Corey Johnson said, "This was a brutal, out-of-control attack. That’s unacceptable."

http://thevillager.com/2015/05/21/police-id-a-suspect-in-vicious-dallas-bbq-gay-bashing-in-chelsea/

Subsequent statements by police indicated that El-Amin was a "career criminal" "career criminal" with 18 arrests in several states for charges including assault, shoplifting, drug possession, credit-card fraud, forgery, and possession of stolen property. Criminal record searches published online by Gawker indicated that he stands 6'6" and over 325 pounds.

Gothamist reported that El-Amin was interviewed, still at large, by a blogger who said that El-Amin claimed he was gay and had been victimized by the two men he struck — who, El-Amin claimed, had physically assaulted him with a "blunt object" that he did not identify. Gothamist noted that prior to actually interviewing El-Amin, the blogger had spoken out "aggressively" in favor of him, and against what the blogger alleged to be "racist gay media".

http://gothamist.com/2015/06/04/alleged_dallas_bbq_gay-basher_says.php

Speaking to ABC 7 News NY, an eyewitness at the restaurant said, "He could have killed that guy. The guy could have been completely dead. I don't know if he was homophobic and in the wrong place." Chelsea, the Manhattan neighborhood where the attack occurred, has a large LGBT population and is renowned for being gay-friendly.

http://7online.com/news/new-video-shows-suspect-in-possible-bias-attack-inside-chelsea-restaurant/700391/

Isaam Sharef, the man who shot video of the brutal attack told NBC 4 New York that El-Amin was "in a rage", adding, "I don't think anybody can watch the video and not be outraged by how horrible this was."

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Dallas-BBQ-Restaurant-Attack-Suspect-Speaks-Out-I-Was-the-Victim-Bayna-El-Amin-306042431.html