A man on Staten Island, New York, is telling ABC news an alarming story of discrimination. He was mugged and robbed, which left him injured and bleeding, but when he arrived at Richmond University Hospital to seek care, he was turned away because he is living with HIV.

“The nurse came over, and she started asking me questions, ‘Do you have diabetes?’ ‘Do you have asthma?’ and I told her I was HIV,” James Rolkiewicz said on the news segment. “She went back to the nurses’ bench. She talked to a white doctor with blonde curly [hair] down to his collar. She came back to me and said, ‘You can leave,’” he said.

The staff did not treat his injured leg or his bleeding head, says Rolkiewicz, who has been HIV positive for 33 years.

The hospital disputes Rolkiewicz’s allegations. “Regardless of ailments or conditions… all of our patients are treated equally and appropriate care rendered,” it said in a statement to ABC, adding that it treats many people who have HIV.

Rolkiewicz believes he isn’t the only HIV-positive person who has been mistreated at the facilities. He and his attorney are planning a lawsuit because, if true, the allegations mean the hospital violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with HIV and other disabilities.

In a separate story dated August 29, 2016, the New York Daily News reported that Rolkiewicz is involved in a $6 million lawsuit against the New York Police Department.

In that case, he alleges that while he was suffering an asthma attack in Greenwich Village—a cop attacked him, calling him a “f---ing f----t” and physically beating him. The other officer did nothing to help, according to the report.

Rolkiewicz’s court-appointed attorney pressured him to admit to a disorderly conduct violation, the Post reports. Rolkiewicz agreed and was sentenced to time-served. He also has a prior conviction.