Sacramento Gay Bashing being investigated as hate crime

Daivd Begnaud, reporter
CBS 13

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― Marquis Bryant says he was just leaving a nightclub when four men beat him so badly he had to be hospitalized.A bruised head and swollen eye didn't stop 20-year-old Marquis from speaking publicly about the attack.

He's admittedly afraid after what happened, but said he is not afraid of who he is.

"I've been called names while I was out, but never like this," said Bryant.Bryant says the attackers started by yelling offensive remarks."I was being called a 'fag', a 'faggott.'

The next thing I know I'm hitting the ground," said Bryant.

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