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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:55PM
Well, I guess we'll just have to mod it down again, since you did not understand the first time, you capitalist pig anonymous coward! Do you think that developmentally delayed persons should sign contracts to be tortured? Black lives should contract with the police to be shot? Or should we put out a contract on your comment, so that it can be freely and justly modded as flamebait? Ok, done, and done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:19PM
Black lives are paying the police to kill black lives. That's the nature of democracy and government. You agree with me: Black people should be able to refuse to fund their killers?
Get it yet, Karl?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @04:36AM
Black people are paying the police to protect them. Often from other black people who make up the number one demographic of people who commit crimes against black people.
Your prosecution complex conspiracy theory has no bearing to reality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @06:29AM
"persecution complex"
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:38PM
"Do you think that developmentally delayed persons"
WTF does that even mean? Let me study that for a minute . . . . .
OH! You mean retards! WTF didn't you just say retards? Ya fucking retard!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:44PM
Takes one to . . . Even when the vocabulary is beyond your grasp! I sense some business opportunities in your future, Runaway1956!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 07 2017, @11:53PM
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