Gang of Men Threaten to Stab Gay Man and Trans Woman in Viral TikTok
BBC.In a since-removed TikTok, the two were told that if they came back to the northwest London area, they’d be “shanked.” The video was shared on other social media channels, going viral.The news service reports that no arrests have been made yet.Kyriakou told the BBC that he was afraid that he would be attacked during the incident.
He explained the men began yelling at them from the street while they were in the restaurant waiting on their food. “They were calling us every name and then threatening to 'shank' us, which is obviously stab us in the shop, so we just had to leave without even getting all our food.
I literally just thought they were about to stab us. They were just going crazy — it went from one to a hundred,” Kyriakou said.He added, “They were so, so angry, I don't know why.
They literally were so threatened by us … And all we were doing was standing there waiting to pick up our food.”Martinez said she was in shock after the ordeal.“I remember this one guy saying to me 'you are not from here and this does not run here...
