Gay Man Brutally Beaten With Billiards Cue Stick In Hate Crime Attack (Graphic picture)

[WillParkinson]

LOUISIANA: Gay Man Brutally Beaten With Billiards Cue Stick In Hate Crime Attack

Yesterday a 52 year-old gay man suffered grievous facial injuries after a patron at a Shreveport, Louisiana bar attacked him with a billiards cue stick because he is gay. Witnesses say the two men hadn't even spoken before the attack.

Security personnel at the Sandbar held the alleged attacker, William Payne until police arrived. Payne was arrested and charged with attempted 2nd degree murder and the commission of a hate crime. "It was totally 100 percent a hate crime for this sexual orientation," said Sandbar manager Tim Huck. The bar provided police with video surveillance. Huck says it's disturbing, and shows Payne who is a large man, breaking the cue stick over victim John Skaggs' face with one powerful blow. "His hand was all the way back, and he's swinging like a baseball bat, after three aggressive steps in," said Huck. Shreveport police believe that the video will be powerful evidence of the alleged attack, and management at the Sandbar believes it will also help distinguish between a crime and a hate crime. "At no point in time had he talked to the man that attacked him, bumped him. After watching the video and from witnesses they hadn't even made any form of eye contact or anything," said Huck.

The bar manager says the victim was a regular patron who "never bothers anyone."



http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/01/louisiana-gay-man-brutally-beaten-with.html

On edit: Here's a picture of his attacker.

[xchrom]

1. no words. nt

[WillParkinson]

2. I have several....

But I'm trying not to use them when others might hear me.

[queerart]

3. K & R

[RetiredTrotskyite]

4. This is Just Awful....

[Bluenorthwest]

5. This is the result of the eliminationist rhetoric of so called

ministers who call for war against us and level great slanders at us, only to be patted on the back and rewarded by the politicians who use their invective as a political tool.

[TheWraith]

8. Eliminationist rhetoric is exactly right.

It's been changed from the point where the rhetoric is "These people are immoral" to "These people are evil" to "These people are destroying America." Muslims, gays, blacks--I guess the Jews are lucky, they're way down on the list at this point. And they've forgotten completely about the Irish.

[Occulus]

11. STOP OPPRESSING CHRISTIANS!!!111!

BROAD BRUSH ATTACK ON RELIGION!1!!1

IT'S ONLY AN ISOLATED INCIDENT!11!1!

CHRISTIANS ARE HATED ON DU!1!!!1!

Thought I'd get it out of the way now...

[laconicsax]

6. But remember, there are extremists on both sides.

:banghead:

[Occulus]

12. SEE POST ELEVENTY11

I DON'T KNOW WHY THE DU LETS RELIGIOUS PEOPLE GET MOCKED!111!

M'kay, I'll stop now. I think I made my point :D

[queerart]

7. kick

[queerart]

9. kick

[queerart]

10. kick