Devin Shaffer said that a group of juveniles hurled eggs at him as he walked with his husband in the Castro neighborhood last month.

Photo: Courtesy Devin Shaffer

At countless community meetings on public safety, San Francisco Police Department officials and others regularly tell audience members to report alleged hate crimes and other incidents. Yet a gay Castro neighborhood resident claims that police asked him to choose between going after the perpetrators of an alleged homophobic attack or filing a report on the matter. 

Devin Shaffer, 33, was holding hands with his husband, Bee Kittipalo, also 33, at 18th and Sanchez streets on July 30 in the 10 p.m. hour when he “got popped in the side of the head,” he told the Bay Area Reporter.

“It felt like a paintball,” Shaffer said. “And I s

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