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Showing Original Post only (View all)Alt-Right Trolls Use Chicago Kidnapping to Spread Lies About Black Lives Matter [View all]
http://www.gizmodo.in/news/alt-right-trolls-use-chicago-kidnapping-to-spread-lies-about-black-lives-matter/articleshow/56361692.cmsYesterday, four teens were apprehended in Chicago on charges of battery. While in police custody, they were determined to be the same assailants depicted in a Facebook Live video which has since been uploaded (and deleted) countless times on other platforms, wherein the same adolescents filmed themselves torturing a young man with mental disabilities. You might have seen something about it on Twitter associated with the hashtag #blmkidnapping.
The half-hour video is deeply upsetting and was pulled from Facebook on account of its glorification of criminal acts. Over those 30 minutes, the victim is beaten, cut, and forced to drink water from a toilet. "Fuck Trump" and "fuck white people" are heard as the kidnappers-all black-attack their captor, a white man. And there's the rub.
Anyone with a shred of empathy can agree it's a heinous act, and determinations as to whether the kidnapping and subsequent attacks were racially or politically motivated are currently being investigated by police. But how exactly are these teens tied to the Black Lives Matter movement? The short answer is: they're not.
Hello again, Centipedes
Not one legitimate news source linked the attack to BLM for the simple reason that no evidence of such a connection exists. Nor did I hear the movement being invoked at any point during the 30-minute video, which I watched in its entirety. An administrator of Centipede Central-a popular Trump supporter chatroom-was able to find the Facebook page of Brittany Herring, the young woman who filmed the act. Her public posts, which stretch back to September 2015, have no references to BLM either.
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Alt-Right Trolls Use Chicago Kidnapping to Spread Lies About Black Lives Matter [View all]
Grey Lemercier
Jan 2017
OP
It was a hate crime, they've been charged with a hate crime, against a disabled person.
uppityperson
Jan 2017
#14
The example that you used actually wouldn't fit the definition of most hate crime laws.
SaschaHM
Jan 2017
#20
That "example" is what this thread is about, and WHY they HAVE been charged with a hate crime
uppityperson
Jan 2017
#23
Please don't accuse me of things when I'm just trying to add some knowledge into the discussion.
SaschaHM
Jan 2017
#25
I apologise, am very sorry, yes did get you confused with someone else. My sincere apology
uppityperson
Jan 2017
#34
The "alt-right" that typically complains about hate crime laws is about to learn how...
SaschaHM
Jan 2017
#19
1 of them knew him from school & they picked him because he was disabled. UPDATE article
uppityperson
Jan 2017
#24
Then that makes it a hate crime, but I'm not seeing where it says they attacked him
SaschaHM
Jan 2017
#27
Would they have taken him, then kidnapped and assaulted him if he weren't disabled?
uppityperson
Jan 2017
#31