According to Ott, when asked why he was being arrested he never received a reply. Ott took down the license plate number of the offending officer only to be arrested. “Faggot,” stated one of the officers as Ott waited for his cab. Ott recounted the frightening experience to the officers, who offered to call him a cab, but refused to do anything about the assault. He fled to a nearby Taco Bell and ran towards three Indianapolis Police Department (IPD) cars parked in its lot. Heart racing, 31-year-old Steven Ott escaped the aggression of his companion, whom he met at Our Place (now Greg’s), by jumping out of the car near 34th and Georgetown Road. The Works, January 1985, 9, Chris Gonzalez GLBT Archives, IUPUI Library.
