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Hard News Five charged in beating of S.C. gay man
Posted By Mustang Sally, Mayor of Bang Town on Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:01 PM
Nineteen-year-old Joshua Esskew was beaten outside of a Rock Hill gas station because he's gay. Now, five men could (and, if they are guilty, should) face federal charges in the attack.
Why? Because, according to The Charlotte Observer, while Esskew was being beaten one of the men yelled out a gay slur.
Esskew told the (Rock Hill) Herald that the confrontation started when a man in front of the store yelled a gay slur at him. He told reporters the attack "was a hate crime."
Charged in the crime are:
Cortezio Laquise Douglas, 21; Lortarius Anthony Duncan, 22; LaJames Mitchell, 22; Darenco Markie Wilmore, 21; and Bobby Wilson, 20.
The sheriff's offices says investigators determined that after an argument between Esskew and a man standing in front of the convenience store, a man later identified as Wilson struck Esskew in the back of the head with a bottle. When Esskew attempted to confront Wilson, the sheriff's office says, the other men joined the fight.
Despite the fact that the enhancements are there to warrant hate crime designation, we are talking about South Carolina, a state not always known for tolerance.
In the twenty-first century, flying the Confederate flag, a symbol of secession, racism, and slavery, is unacceptable and un-American.South Carolina is going to cut its entire HIV/AIDS budget. Tough times call for tough measures, especially against gay people, I guess…
South Carolina has been the center of hate, homophobia, racism, in short, Republicanism, for four centuries.
York County had to call in the feds because, surprise, surprise, South Carolina has no hate crime legislation on the books.
South Carolina has no “hate crime” laws, but the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, enacted in 2009, gives federal authorities power to investigate allegations of crimes against gays that could potentially be civil rights violations.
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