A man was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning at adored, queer Bushwick watering hole HappyFun Hideaway for attacking a bouncer, shouting homophobic slurs and threatening to come back “Orlando style” after being thrown out, according to police reports and witnesses.
The individual, identified by the police as 40-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Justin Rice, was at the bar at 1211 Myrtle Ave with his girlfriend around 11 p.m. on Monday night when the couple started fighting. A bouncer who intervened was unable to stop the argument, and eventually threw Mr. Rice out of the bar.
Mr. Rice threw at least one punch at the bouncer and also threw a metal bucket at him while carrying on a heated tirade in which he referred repeatedly to the parties at the bar as “f*ggots” and threatened to come back “Orlando style,” referring to this past weekend’s bloodbath at Latin night at a gay nightclub in Florida.
