Man who sucker-punched gay bar patron faces up to 4 years
If there was one thing Bart Browne despised, it was gay people. So at 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 10, when the strapping 34-year-old saw some men mingling outside an Albany, New York, gay bar, he said he felt perfectly justified in sucker-punching one of them in the face. The force of the single strike broke the 28-year-old victim's jaw, caused a permanent loss of feeling in his left cheek and eradicated the sense of smell in that nostril, prosecutors said. The victim was also left with a fear of being randomly assaulted for being gay. He has moved away from the area, prosecutors say. Browne faces a hate crimes sentence of up to four years in state prison.
Times Union
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