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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, 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).
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