"Mother fucking maricons trying to come up in the taqueria! Fucking maricons should stay in their own territory, in they own hood! Maricon is Spanish for "faggot."
A gay black man who was stabbed multiple times in a Mission District taqueria last May told a San Francisco Superior Court judge Friday, March 14, that "My sense of safety has been crushed. My belief in the justice system has been entirely shattered."
Moments later, Lyced Yvette Segovia, the woman who pleaded guilty February 11 to the crime as part of an agreement with prosecutors, received a suspended imposition of sentence from Judge Gail Dekreon and was placed on probation for three years. She could have been ordered to serve two years in prison.
Frazier, who was 34 at the time of the incident, said last May that he, his partner and his best friend were eating at Taqueria Cancun on Mission Street when Segovia began to yell racial slurs at two other people. Frazier turned around to find out what was happening.
Segovia stabbed him in his shoulder, arm, and back, which sustained the most serious injury. Frazier told the Bay Area Reporter in an e-mail that Segovia yelled at him, calling him a "nigger." He also wrote that he tried to use a chair to protect himself and his companions from Segovia, but that he hadn't used it aggressively.
The report states Segovia continuously yelled the word "nigger" randomly and referred to the officers as "honkey [sic] trash" and "white puta" (the Spanish equivalent of "whore").
Segovia then said, "Mother fucking maricons trying to come up in the taqueria! Fucking maricons should stay in their own territory, in they own hood! This is how we roll out here in our hood, this is the mother fucking Mission!" according to the report. Maricon is Spanish for "faggot."
The report states, "Due to the victim's race and sexual orientation, as well as Segovia's demeanor, choice of words and lack of any signs of remorse whatsoever, I was led to believe that the stabbing may have been hate-related."
Segovia, who was 24 at the time of the incident, originally pleaded not guilty in the case. However, Umali – who has referred to his client as "a very good person who made a mistake in judgment" – reached an agreement with the district attorney's office. Segovia pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
Conditions of probation include attending anger management and alcohol counseling, which Umali said she's already participated in on her own. Segovia is also not allowed to possess any weapons, and she must stay 150 yards away from Frazier and not try to contact him in any way.
But Frazier told the court, "The defendant's assertion of 'self-defense' is flatly absurd and completely divorced from the truth. I was literally trapped in a corner and brutally stabbed in the back."
Frazier said in court that five doctors have told him that his injuries could have resulted in paralysis or death. He still experiences painful nerve damage from a deep puncture along the ridge of his spinal column. Frazier, who works as a teacher and a writer, told the B.A.R. that he missed teaching the last four weeks of the school year, and his independent educational consulting practice "suffered greatly."
"Segovia seemed cold and not at all remorseful," Frazier wrote of Segovia's demeanor in court. "It was very difficult for me to be in court with Segovia."
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