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No arrests as police investigate punching of gay Utah man on viral video

Although investigators have located the man who was filmed hitting a gay man this weekend in Salt Lake City, he has not been arrested and police are looking for more witnesses and video footage.

“This isn’t something we can just quickly wrap up,” said Salt Lake City Police Detective Greg Wilking. Investigators are trying to learn more about what occurred before and after the eight-second video that spread around social media after Sal Trejo, the person who was hit, posted it Sunday on Twitter.

Trejo’s footage opens near 327 S. Main St., where a man is asking, “Are you gay, though?