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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?
This story was also submitted by Runaway1956.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:48PM
A bunch of white guys sitting in their mother's basements trying to discuss racial politics in America.
The African American community goes through stuff like this on a daily basis at the hands of whites. It never makes the news because it is so common.
The fact that Drudge still has this as its top story instead of a WHITE GUY who shot up the airport in Ft. Lauderdale shows how racism is alive today in America.
But yeah, a bunch of urban kids doing what is the equivalent to college fraternity hazing should be a hate crime. This is getting disproportionate media coverage in Trump's America.
Fuck off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @09:54PM
It's a tech article.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:04PM
The Ft. Lauderdale guy must have been a Moslem. I know that because it wasn't mentioned in the article I skimmed. Even the Drudge Report is covering up the crimes of Moslems!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Sunday January 08 2017, @02:53PM
However, Iowa Congressman Steve King raised a story circulating on conservative media sites that alleged Santiago had gone by a Muslim name on MySpace 10 years ago and “and recorded Islamic religious music on the site” with one song’s name meaning “there is no God but Allah.”
http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/esteban-santiago-fort-lauderdale-airport-shooter-shooting-active-gunman-suspect-photo-citizen-isis-florida-facebook-new-jersey-victims-military/ [heavy.com]
So, parent wins, grandparent loses, but grandparent was a troll so they both win. Unless the proof is fabricated of course (digital evidence is far from evidence nowadays).
Other theories, mental control victim (why should he be apprehended alive if he were? it would be more useful to shoot him dead or for him to suicide and cover traces), or patsy to expose mental control conspiracies (here we get to russian style counter propaganda territory).
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:21PM
The Ft Lauderdale shooter was Mexican, not white, you colorblind moron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:24PM
Mexican isn't a race, its a nationality. And he wasn't Mexican, he was American.
Apparently some people don't realize that Hispanic and Latinos come in different shades. [latintimes.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:35PM
Basically, we all "American" if we live in the western hemisphere. But, the shooter is Puerto Rican.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:49PM
> Basically, we all "American" if we live in the western hemisphere.
No. There is only one nationality that is American.
There aren't any other countries with America in the name.
> But, the shooter is Puerto Rican.
Hey shit for brains -- Puerto Ricans are Americans.
Puerto Rico is part of the USA.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 08 2017, @12:03AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._colonial_possessions [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico [wikipedia.org]
Most Puerto Ricans would argue with you - certainly those who have repeatedly voted NOT to become a member state of the United States. Puerto Ricans have their own sense of identity, their own ethnic and national pride, their own culture.
"Puerto Ricans are natural-born citizens of the United States.[22] Puerto Rico does not have a vote in the United States Congress, which governs the territory with full jurisdiction under the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950. As a U.S. territory, American citizens residing on the island are disenfranchised at the national level and may not vote for president and vice president of the United States.[23] However, Congress approved a local constitution, allowing U.S. citizens on the territory to elect a governor."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @12:23AM
> Most Puerto Ricans would argue with you
Hey shit for brains. My wife is a boricua, she says you don't know jack shit about the island so you should just shut the fuck up already.
I agree with her.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 08 2017, @12:32AM
You lying shit - you don't have a wife. If AC had a wife, she'd be a Neanderthal anyway, certainly not Puerto Rican.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @02:42AM
If there is one thing runaway is good at, its making dumbass declarations about shit he knows nothing about.
First americans, then puerto ricans and now some ACs wife.
I'm sure he believes every word of it too.
(Score: 2) by BK on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:28PM
I for one resent your racist assumptions.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:50PM
As if burger king isn't one of the whitest people here.
(Score: 2) by BK on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:13PM
You still have to learn when to stop telling whoppers.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @06:32AM
its good to resent, it builds character.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:32PM
Hah! Okay, Tyrone. Sure.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:48PM
Everybody goes through this stuff on a daily basis; only whites treat it as a human problem, rather than a race problem.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:33PM
"instead of a WHITE GUY who shot up the airport in Ft. Lauderdale"
Reading comprehension fail. The dude shot up the airport is a Puerto Rican. Probably a little less brown than the average Mexican, but still not white. If you're kinda color blind, and don't know much about the various ethinc groups in the western hemisphere, he could almost pass for white. Except, he will remind you that he isn't white, at some point in time. He will establish his ethnic origins when he realizes that you don't understand them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:37PM
Runaway can pass for white, too! But unlike the Ft. Lauderdale shooter, Runaway was never in actual combat. Support our troops!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:49PM
Well troll - you win the award for reading comprehension. I've stated that I pass for white, but I'm not really lily white like the white supremacists demand. I've also stated that I've never seen "actual combat" like the troops in Vietnam, who stayed out in the jungle for weeks and months at a time. But, I've seen more combat than many support troops like Bradley Manning.
I'll give you a star that you can give your mommy, and she can put it on the refrigerator.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @12:34AM
Runaway is done fucking his bitch. He heads to the kitchen to grab a drink from a fridge. As his hand reaches for the fridge door handle, the camera suddenly zooms in to a small gold sticker on the fridge. Then the camera cuts to a close up of Runaway's face. Then back to the star. Then back to his face. Then back to the star. Then back to his face. Then back to the star. Then back to his pants. Then back to the Milky Way Galaxy. Fade in Runaway's intensely focussed eyes with the look of a thousand yard stare and sweat trickling down his brow.
Then everything exploded as a USAF drone dropped a bomb on the house, eliminating a known threat to American security and prosperity for good.
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Sunday January 08 2017, @07:40PM
The islamic convert is probably the most useful classification. It's not all about general racial group, but he was Hispanic. Apparently we try to reclassify Hispanic people as white these days to skew crime statistics because some politician thought the numbers would look better that way where we should really just rename "Race" into "useful general classification", and include Hispanic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @12:02AM
Reading comprehension fail. The dude shot up the airport is a Puerto Rican.
Pretty racist there. Maybe you should bring up Mein Kapft as well to define what "pure white" is? I'll just refer to you to wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people#Puerto_Rico [wikipedia.org]
nut maybe you prefer the racist laws of the "good old past"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @03:03AM
But yeah, a bunch of urban kids doing what is the equivalent to college fraternity hazing should be a hate crime.
Physically abusing a helpless victim is not just "hazing" you troglodyte. The torture of a disabled person for their skin color is NOT something to be made light of or turned into cheap Internet score pointing.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @04:46AM
Everybody goes through this stuff on a daily basis; only whites treat it as a human problem, rather than a race problem.