GenQ - For the not so straight individual

A 56-year-old New Bedford man is claiming that Provincetown police were negligent when they tended to him after he was assaulted Sept. 10. Richard Hall, who was vacationing in Provincetown with his partner, was attacked by unknown assailants in the early morning hours of Sept. 10. He said as a result of the physical trauma to his head during the assault he has no recollection of the aftermath of the attack, during which Provincetown police officers and a rescue squad were called to the scene by two men who witnessed him emerging from the beach access next to Bubala’s restaurant on Commercial Street. Hall, who suffered abrasions to his face and welts on the back of his head, said that he should have been taken to the hospital immediately for medical treatment. The rescue squad treated his injuries at the scene, according to the police report, but Hall refused their request to transport him to the emergency room. Hall said that he was traumatized after the attack (he remembers little of the attack and says he has no memory of his encounter with police officers) and that police should have insisted he go to the hospital.

Hall also said police potentially put him in danger by leaving him in the care of strangers when he was not in his right mind. The police report for the case says that after questioning Hall at the scene police left him in the care of the two men who called to report the assault. Hall said he does not know who the two men were, and the police report does not give their names nor indicate whether police questioned the men to see if they knew Hall or had witnessed any portion of the attack. Acting Provincetown Police Chief Warren Tobias said that he has not spoken directly to the officers on the scene and does not know whether they questioned the men who found Hall.

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