it ain't easy being green

or gay in the hartford area. i don't know if the police took a report or not that first day and i don't know if it took 1 1/2 for them to respond or not. you can damn well bet i'm going to try to find out though

Victims tell of hate crime beating in the capital city
HARTFORD-- Hartford detectives are aggressively pursuing leads in a hate crime in the city's south end.
Two gay women claim they were attacked and beaten. Now, the police department is being criticized for a slow response to the attack.
People familiar with the situation say two women left a gay club and were beaten so badly, they were left with broken bones.
The victims say as they walked to their car just a few blocks away, they were surrounded by a group of young men in white bandanas and puffy jackets.
The men knocked the pair to the ground, beat them, yelling names like queer and dyke. Someone called 911.
Sources tell Eyewitness News the attack victims waited an hour and a half and saw no police, no ambulance. Then some of the young men came back, intimidating the women until they left.
Sources say police did not take a report. A few days later a higher up in the Hartford Police Department learned of the hate crime and got detectives on the case. The department insists though, that a report was taken that day and detectives were assigned to it.
The victims of the attack have been reluctant to talk about what happened. They were so shaken up, they couldn't leave their homes for a week.