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posted by on Saturday January 07 2017, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly

Four people have been charged in Chicago over a beating live streamed to Facebook. In addition to hate crime charges, there are counts of aggravated kidnapping, battery, and unlawful restraint:

Authorities in Chicago charged four people with hate crimes Thursday following the emergence of a disturbing video appearing to show them shouting obscenities about President-elect Donald Trump and white people while abusing a man authorities say has mental health problems. The footage, which Chicago's top police officer labeled "sickening," quickly went viral online. In the shaky video, a terrified young man in a gray hooded sweatshirt and dark pants is seen crouching in a corner, his wrists and neck bound with orange bands, his mouth taped shut.

A young woman films as two young men slash the sleeves of his shirt with knives, then take turns punching him, slapping him and stomping on his head. At one point, one of the men can be seen cutting the victim's hair and scalp with a knife, and the victim is later shown bleeding from his injuries. As the victim cowers with his back to the wall, someone can be heard repeatedly shouting, "F‑‑‑ Donald Trump" and "F‑‑‑ white people."

Throughout the 28-minute video — which focuses mostly on the young woman behind the camera — the group laughs, jokes and listens to music as the victim sits motionless on the floor. About halfway through, someone says the man "represents Trump," and threatens to put him in the trunk of a car and "put a brick on the gas."

Also at NPR, USA Today, CNN, and Reuters.

The video is available at LiveLeak. Feel free to search for it if you wish.

So, did Black Mirror predict this type of event?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:34PM (#450845)

    The free market! Libertarian ideals! Anarchy that actually works somehow!

    You weirdos are so insane, those ideals are what gave us the various labor horrors of the 19th and 20th century. There is no "voluntary" when the only jobs available are shitty contract options that will have you living in a company town where it is next to impossible to get out from debt.

    Thankfully the majority of the 20th century improved things drastically! Sadly, those societal protections ate trying to be clawed back by greedy bastards that want to stand on the backs of the poor; and here we see some traitors buying into weird Randian(?) bullshit trying to sway public opinion in favor. If I were a sucker like you I would fall for the idea of "reeducation camps" like China did, but I see where that road goes.

    A more direct democracy than what the US has now is the best way forward, you can hop on the train or live the rest of your life as a bitter anarcho-idealist.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Unixnut on Sunday January 08 2017, @02:25AM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Sunday January 08 2017, @02:25AM (#450918)

    You weirdos are so insane, those ideals are what gave us the various labor horrors of the 19th and 20th century. There is no "voluntary" when the only jobs available are shitty contract options that will have you living in a company town where it is next to impossible to get out from debt.

    Actually no, it was automation during the industrial revolution that caused the labour horrors. All of a sudden skilled craftsmen who had their own businesses found themselves unable to compete with machines running in factories. They could either starve to death, take up arms against the factory owners (like the Luddites did), or accept any poor wage (and the fact you now have to work when you are told to, and for how long. Rather than working when you want) in return for putting some bread on the table. Hence the "wage slave" was born, which now most of the world sees as a "normal life".

    I do wonder, what will happen with this next level of automation kicks in, will there be similar social upheaval, and would is be as violent? I suspect it won't matter what ideals you hold when it happens, everyone will be affected in some way.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @11:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @11:08PM (#451724)

      Or there will be a loss of freedom for those who care about it.

      There are lots of people perfectly happy to live their sheltered lives working their 9-5s with no prospects beyond making it to retirement doing a mediocre job. Those people should be left behind to rot in the cages they wrought for themselves.

      The rest of us need to start building unified communities (just like people previously had based on race, nationality, or religion in order to reduce the dangers of daily outside persecution by keeping to themselves. It won't stop outsiders coming in to crush you because you are their currently blamed bogeyman, but it will allow some of us to build internally sustaining economic communities which in turn can provide time to either produce our own automated facilities to become competitive with the outside world/bigger corporations, or take other steps to avoid being crushed under the bootheel of enforced authoritarianism, which is marching steadily ahead under the auspices of protecting us from terrorism, economic progress (for all but the 'working class' and below), and whatever other aspects of freedom and liberty are considered unnecessary by those influencing society and politics.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @07:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @07:25PM (#451133)

    no, we'll just stop funding you scum.