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bellygangstaboo:

Bistreich’s suit alleges that both Gentile — a Democrat who represents Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights — and his chief of staff John Mancuso targeted him because of his diagnosis and tormented him with pranks so distressing he was forced to quit his job in June 2016.

Mancuso once organized a mass-decapitation of the stuffed animals Bistreich kept on his desk.

Bistreich found his Teddy bears with their heads ripped off — with one mounted on a flagpole — and a stuffed toy dog had been gutted and painted red to seem bloody.

The suit also claims the bullying was tolerated and encouraged by Gentile, who laughed and clapped his hands when a staff member compared Bistreich to Avonte Oquendo — the autistic boy who died after escaping his school through an unattended exit — by suggesting Bistreich “test the doors.”

This is so gross! These are grown adults bullying someone like they are on an elementary school playground. I have to continue believing that for every one asshole there are at least two caring people..

This makes me so fucking angry. As a parent to an autistic child, an aunt to an autistic child, the sister to an autistic man, I know how comforting a small thing can be. Take it away and you are destroying that persons sense of comfort. It’s disgusting that he was tormented by grown ass men. Fuck men, fuck people. Fuck the fucking world.

Is there a way for us to help this person?