Not too sure if any of you guys saw this story in the news about two weeks ago in Chicago, but this is a pretty big story there right now and it's been on my mind for these past two weeks. I'll post a link below if you would like to read the full story but basically a group of African American adults kidnapped, bound, humiliated, tortured, cut his hair, and verbally abused an 18 year old boy who is special needs. They posted a video on Facebook of them beating him, forcing him to drink from a toilet, and yelling "fuck Donald Trump" and "fuck white people". I understand that no body is really happy about Donald Trump being elected into office but this is absolutely wrong. It's absolutely disgusting. I myself have a sibling with special needs and if something like this happened to him, he would never be able to recover mentally. He would be in therapy for PTSD for probably the remainder of his life (my brother has sever autism). So, reading this story makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. Hate is not the way to express your feelings toward Donald Trump, especially in this way, harming someone so innocent who has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Trump being elected. Currently the four perpetrators are being held without bail, which is pretty unusual but completely justified for a hate crime to this extent, and are awaiting a court hearing this week.
**on this page they also show the video**
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/05/4-in-custody-after-group-beats-disabled-man-on-facebook-live-while-shouting-anti-trump-profanities-chicago-police-say/?utm_term=.f7c313d6cc12
I saw this on the news as well, and I thought these young students were disgusting for doing such horrible things to this special needs kid. I thought the video was terrible and I think those students should get a lot of jail time for their actions and I really hope the victim of the hate crime is doing better from coming from the hospital.
ReplyDeleteI saw this on the news as well, and I thought these young students were disgusting for doing such horrible things to this special needs kid. I thought the video was terrible and I think those students should get a lot of jail time for their actions and I really hope the victim of the hate crime is doing better from coming from the hospital.
ReplyDeleteYeah, as much as we white people are responsible for Trump getting elected (the statistics show that pretty clearly), this is not the way to respond at all. I hope the kid is as okay as he can possibly be in this situation.
ReplyDeleteYes, this is just crazy, and why one earth would anybody do something like this taking out your anger on someone who is not really to blame. I feel that these young black kids should get some serious jail time for this.
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