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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Feb 8 05:54:34 2012, in response to Re: Black Out?, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Feb 8 05:28:03 2012. Actually, it HAS gotten considerable local AND national attention. WSB-TV (the local Atlanta CBS affiliate) has been covering it since the video hit WSHH, ABC had a segment on it during the national news last night, plus CNN and MSNBC picked it up. Since the beating occurred on Saturday, the police have located, identified, and interviewed the terrified victim, 20-year-old Brandon white, and spoken with his family.The FBI has joined the investigation because Georgia is one of just five states without a hate-crimes law. (The Georgia legislature had passed one, the governor signed it, Southern whites got it repealed, and the Legislature refused to refile.) The US attorney's office is looking at the possibility of federal civil-rights charges for the culprits, if and when they are arrested. There is, in addition to the video the suspects themselves made, of their own crime, surveillance video which is now in the hands of investigators. There has, according to published and broadcast reports, been a firestorm of public outrage in Atlanta over this senseless ambush attack. Although Crimestoppers has been receiving "calls all day long" according to WSB, no arrests have yet been made in this case. I have been all over the LGBT media about this in the past two days, and did an op-ed for GBM News that shows how people like Roland Martin making homophobic remarks encourages the kind of violence we saw in Atlanta, and how tolerance of homophobia allows such attacks to continue. I'm waiting for the inevitable "gay panic" defense when these filthy creatures are caught. Yup, one little gay man was so "threatening" to three big, muscular gangsters that they had to beat him with their hands, feet, and a car tire. Yup. Makes perfect sense. The sad thing is, there ARE juries that will buy that shit. |
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