Lesbians punched & arrested for kissing in supermarket - Honolulu

This is outrageous. And for it to happen in a so called gay friendly country that the US tries to be is even worse.

I've said before here that the Sydney LGBT have a long history of difficulty with the New South Wales police, even with the Mardi Gras starting as a protest march and ending up in a cop free for all of gay bashing. The police are much friendlier now, but it has come at a constant struggle. Recent Mardi Gras parades have seen more excesses of police power and violence. To address such a situation there has been liaison between the police and the gay community to come together in agreement about policing in eastern Sydney. One of the recommendations was to not have homophobic police dealing with the LGBT. It's just in no way an acceptable situation.

So in this case an obviously homophobic cop, off duty but still in uniform, took offence to a lesbian couple kissing in a supermarket that he was in ("religious freedom" anyone?). The Huffington post continues the story. Honestly, it reads like something out of one of those gay hate countries:

They were walking through the aisles holding hands and at one point hugged and kissed, the lawsuit said: 

Officer Bobby Harrison, who was shopping in uniform, "observed their consensual romantic contact and, in a loud voice, ordered plaintiffs to stop and 'take it somewhere else.'" 

The women complied and continued shopping, the lawsuit said. 

When Harrison again saw them being affectionate with each other, he threatened to have them thrown out of the store. 

"We're used to people making remarks here and there," Wilson said of their two-year relationship. 

While the women were in the check-out line, Harrison grabbed Wilson by the wrist, and she started to call 911, she said. 

"He was bumping his belly against Courtney," Guerrero said. "He said, 'you girls don't know how to act. You don't know the difference between a motel and a grocery store.'" 

When Guerrero tried to get in between her girlfriend and the officer, he shoved her. She kicked him as she was falling, she said. 

"The whole situation got physical," Wilson said. "I got punched in the face by him." 

Because Harrison didn't have any handcuffs on him, store employees helped restrain the women, as customers watched. "You can't really blame them for not getting involved," Wilson said of the bystanders. Huffington Post