Lesbian Couple Assaulted on Mexico City Metro Say Police 'Insensitive' to Complaint Latin Times
go to original December 4, 2013

The couple filed a complaint, even though prosecutors tried to dissuade them. (Cuartoscuro)

A lesbian couple who were assaulted on a Mexico City metro car a week ago by a man who took issue with their public display of affection say police in the Mexican capital were "insensitive" to their complaints.  According to Animal Politico, two women who chose not to give their names were sharing a kiss on the metro when a man identified as Samuel Reyes Coriat began to insult them.  "Pigs.  If you can't urinate or defecate in the street, you all can't be doing that here," he allegedly told them, and when the couple responded by kissing each other again, Reyes Coriat allegedly punched one of them in the back and the other in the right shoulder when she turned to confront him.

One of the women, identified simply as "S", told Animal Politico that when they pulled the emergency lever in the train, which calls the police, the officer who attended them was "polite and didn't deny us any service, but you could tell he was insensitive to the idea".  S, a psychologist who leads workshops on human rights abuses and discrimination awareness, added that the officer attempted to dissuade her and her partner from filing the complaint, saying of their attacker, "He's an old guy, give him a chance.  Are you all sure that you want to file the complaint?  You're going to have to be here [at the police station] all day."  Reyes Coriat, meanwhile, had welcomed the arrival of the police, telling the women, "Yes, call them, I'm going to denounce you all for immorality," before realizing that he was the one responsible for a crime, at which point, the site writes, he tried to resist arrest.

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