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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: 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.