lol....talk about racial slurs to a white guy
Assault accuser ready to sue
Ex-Bucks appear in court to face various charges
Male stripper hasn't performed since 2003 run-in
JENNIFER QUINN
SPORTS REPORTER
A male stripper was so injured, traumatized and frightened by a run-in with three NBA players that he hasn't been able to work as an exotic dancer since April 2003 — and now plans to sue them.
Adrian Cimpean told a court yesterday that he was beaten by three men outside For Your Eyes Only, a strip club on King St. W., where he had gone to pick up his fiancée, Vida Asante, who was working as a stripper.
Cimpean said he and Asante were leaving the club when Gary Payton, Sam Cassell and Jason Caffey leapt out of a cab and descended on them, knocking Cimpean to the ground and leaving him dizzy, with ringing ears, blurred vision and terrible stress.
The three players have all been charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm and three counts of common assault. Payton also allegedly pushed Cimpean's fiancée and assaulted another female dancer at the scene while Cassell assaulted the club's bouncer.
Only Payton and Cassell were in court yesterday. Caffey is not expected to appear at the week-long trial before Justice William Bassel.
The beating, which Cimpean described as unprovoked, was precipitated by catcalling, insults and racial slurs, he told crown prosecutor Darren Hogan. "The person in the front seat was yelling (at Asante), `Where you going, girl, come here, I want to talk to you,'" Cimpean recalled. "We ignored him and made a few steps. He said, `I can't believe she's ignoring me.' And they said, `Yo, `ho, you f---ing `ho, turn around, I'm talking to you.'
"I said, `That's my lady, please,'" Cimpean, who emigrated from Romania a decade ago, recalled. "And I turned around and I made a few steps."
It was then that one of the players called Cimpean, who is white, a "n--ger", the 31-year-old said. He recalled hearing one of them say: "I can't believe this f---ing n--ger. Look at him."
Cimpean was then punched in the face by one of the players while another went behind him and knocked him to the ground, an attack he estimated lasting as long as five minutes.
"I feel angry, I feel upset, I feel isolated," Cimpean said, repeatedly describing himself as "in shock." But under cross-examination by defence lawyer Edward Greenspan, Cimpean's credibility and motives came under attack.
"You're not in shock today?" Greenspan asked.
"No," Cimpean replied.
"But you do have a lawyer today?" Greenspan said.
"Yes, I do have a lawyer."
"And you have a lawsuit coming?" the defence lawyer asked.
"Yes, Cimpean said. "I have nothing to hide. I will sue them. Yes, I will."
No statement of claim has yet been filed in the case.
Greenspan asked Cimpean whether it was possible he had been the person using racial slurs — a suggestion he rejected, saying his wife and children are black — and asked when he had decided to sue the players, at the time members of the Milwaukee Bucks in town for a game against the Raptors.
"I don't remember," Cimpean said, denying that he knew who the players were during the assault and rebuffing the suggestion that he decided to sue them that same day.
But Cimpean's medical records showed that he visited his family doctor on April 17, 2003, six days after the assault, and indicated to her that he'd be suing the basketball players.
Assault accuser ready to sue
Ex-Bucks appear in court to face various charges
Male stripper hasn't performed since 2003 run-in
JENNIFER QUINN
SPORTS REPORTER
A male stripper was so injured, traumatized and frightened by a run-in with three NBA players that he hasn't been able to work as an exotic dancer since April 2003 — and now plans to sue them.
Adrian Cimpean told a court yesterday that he was beaten by three men outside For Your Eyes Only, a strip club on King St. W., where he had gone to pick up his fiancée, Vida Asante, who was working as a stripper.
Cimpean said he and Asante were leaving the club when Gary Payton, Sam Cassell and Jason Caffey leapt out of a cab and descended on them, knocking Cimpean to the ground and leaving him dizzy, with ringing ears, blurred vision and terrible stress.
The three players have all been charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm and three counts of common assault. Payton also allegedly pushed Cimpean's fiancée and assaulted another female dancer at the scene while Cassell assaulted the club's bouncer.
Only Payton and Cassell were in court yesterday. Caffey is not expected to appear at the week-long trial before Justice William Bassel.
The beating, which Cimpean described as unprovoked, was precipitated by catcalling, insults and racial slurs, he told crown prosecutor Darren Hogan. "The person in the front seat was yelling (at Asante), `Where you going, girl, come here, I want to talk to you,'" Cimpean recalled. "We ignored him and made a few steps. He said, `I can't believe she's ignoring me.' And they said, `Yo, `ho, you f---ing `ho, turn around, I'm talking to you.'
"I said, `That's my lady, please,'" Cimpean, who emigrated from Romania a decade ago, recalled. "And I turned around and I made a few steps."
It was then that one of the players called Cimpean, who is white, a "n--ger", the 31-year-old said. He recalled hearing one of them say: "I can't believe this f---ing n--ger. Look at him."
Cimpean was then punched in the face by one of the players while another went behind him and knocked him to the ground, an attack he estimated lasting as long as five minutes.
"I feel angry, I feel upset, I feel isolated," Cimpean said, repeatedly describing himself as "in shock." But under cross-examination by defence lawyer Edward Greenspan, Cimpean's credibility and motives came under attack.
"You're not in shock today?" Greenspan asked.
"No," Cimpean replied.
"But you do have a lawyer today?" Greenspan said.
"Yes, I do have a lawyer."
"And you have a lawsuit coming?" the defence lawyer asked.
"Yes, Cimpean said. "I have nothing to hide. I will sue them. Yes, I will."
No statement of claim has yet been filed in the case.
Greenspan asked Cimpean whether it was possible he had been the person using racial slurs — a suggestion he rejected, saying his wife and children are black — and asked when he had decided to sue the players, at the time members of the Milwaukee Bucks in town for a game against the Raptors.
"I don't remember," Cimpean said, denying that he knew who the players were during the assault and rebuffing the suggestion that he decided to sue them that same day.
But Cimpean's medical records showed that he visited his family doctor on April 17, 2003, six days after the assault, and indicated to her that he'd be suing the basketball players.
