I hope these folks get some serious jail time!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/17/14 at 3:21pm

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/09/internet-sleuths-may-have-located-suspected-attackers-in-philly-hate-crime/

[tazber]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 6:59am

What is wrong with people?!?!

[VeraCharles3]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 7:23am

Vile people.

I have read that this attack doesn't constitute as a hate crime which is pathetic. Hopefully they will get their comeuppance and be charged with something that will put them all away.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 8:16am

The part of this horrible story that is quite extraordinary is that citizen sleuths on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook located and identified the perpetrators.

Let's hope that the police and the DA are as thorough.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:06pm

White heterosexual gang members in Philadelphia wearing neatly pressed untucked dress shirts, little black cocktail dresses and perpetual smirks should now be routinely stop and frisked on the street. The liquor license on that restaurant/gang activity hub should be pulled.

And we'll need to know if salmon vest took part in the beating so as not to be outed.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:10pm

From the latest two updates on snafu's link, it seems like the Catholic school is taking swifter action than the police.

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Suspects arrive at police headquarters for questioning

Update: Police said several of the individuals arrived at headquarters Wednesday night along with their lawyers and were questioned. There was no immediate information if any arrests were made.

Several defense attorneys with knowledge of the case, or who have been retained to represent some of those in the video, tell WCAU-TV that more video exists that will “paint a different picture” of what happened, alleging that one of the beating victims threw the first punch.

Catholic school fires coach over alleged gay bashing

Update: Thursday, Sept. 18, 4:00 a.m. EDT

An assistant basketball coach at Archbishop Wood High School was fired Wednesday due to his alleged involvement in the attack.

Philly.com reports that the coach, identified by a source close to the team as Fran McGlinn, 25, had been “serving as a coach on a contract basis,” according to a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

McGlinn “was terminated this evening and will not be permitted to coach in any Archdiocesan school,” the spokesperson said. “We expect all those who work with students in our schools to model appropriate Christian behavior at all times.”

An earlier report indicated that many in the group were once classmates at Archbishop Wood High School.

Developing story. This report will be updated.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:25pm

If the video doesn't surface, want to be they claim Gay Panic?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:27pm

“We expect all those who work with students in our schools to model appropriate Christian behavior at all times.”

I'm sure he'll be made head coach at a non-Catholic Christian school based on his actions. There are hundreds, if not thousands, that abhor appropriate Christian behavior and discourage it.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:28pm

One or more of the women will claim the gay couple "came on" to one or more of the meatheads.


it's all just a little bit of history repeating

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:38pm

Does it strike anyone else as surprising in this day and age that:

"Pennsylvania’s hate-crimes law, in any case, doesn’t cover crimes motivated by a person’s sexual orientation."

How in the last decade has something as basic as a hate-crimes law not been updated in a supposedly progressive state like Pennsylvania?

*shakes head in disbelief*

[tazber]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 12:41pm

It didn't really dawn on me Someone in a Tree2, but now that you mention it, I do expect more from Pennsylvania.

Then again, morons are morons. There is no geographic limit on hate.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 1:08pm

Pennsylvania had a hate-crimes statute that included sexual orientation in 2002, but the state supreme court overruled it in 2004.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 1:09pm

I'm just shocked, shocked I say, that a high school coach could be involved in an incident of violent homophobia.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 1:14pm

Do you need a fag-splanation?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 1:15pm

Do you wish Pennsylvania had a hate-crimes statute for this, or do you think the punishment will be appropriate without one?

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 1:24pm

A move is afoot to use the federal hate-crimes law for this case. It has also sparked calls for PA to reinstate the law that was overturned previously.

Not only am I a Philadelphian, but my office is one half block away from where the beating took place. It is an affluent, very gay friendly neighborhood as is all of Center City Philadelphia.

I can tell you that the city is in shock that this happened.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 1:24pm

They're white people. Of COURSE there will not be appropriate punishment.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 1:35pm

But do you think there should be a hate-crimes statute at all?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 4:31pm

Who, me?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 4:47pm

This is a change.org petition asking the Pennsylvania givernor and state legislature to reinstate "sexual orientation" to the existing Pennsylvania hate-crimes statute.

It was removed by the state Supreme Court in 2008.

I've signed. Anyone else?




CHANGE.ORG: Petitioning Pennsylvania Governor Change PA Hate Crime Law to include Sexual Orientation

Updated On: 9/18/14 at 04:47 PM

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 4:57pm

You would hope that there wouldn't be a need for a Hate Crimes Bill. Since PA has one in place there is no reason that sexual preferance or identification shouldn't be included.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 5:12pm

Apparently the Pennsylvania Supreme Court thought they found one.




PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE: You’ll Have to Stop Calling the Gay-Bashing a Hate Crime Read more at http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/09/18/gay-bashing-hate-crime-pennsylvania-petition/#ZY5yiCigfop66y3l.99

Updated On: 9/18/14 at 05:12 PM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 5:22pm

Signed the petition!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/18/14 at 5:37pm

That really outrages me!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/19/14 at 10:07am

This is also causing some very deserved agony in the Philadelphia archbishop, who has been particularly anti-gay in the past. He's had to condemn the actions of the gay-bashers his school trained so well, but he can't bring himself to say that the victims were attacked simply because they were gay.

This case might be the strongest case FOR hate-crimes legislation since the Matthew Shepard case. (And possibly stronger, if you believe any of the recent attacks on Shepard's character.)

Hate-crimes laws have nothing to do with freedom of speech or the hate-speech laws they have in Europe. It is simply adds more options for motive to current sentencing guidelines, which already take into consideration various motives (like a minimum sentence for premeditated homicide deserves to longer than a minimum sentence for criminally negligent manslaughter).

The people in that video were willing to hurt whatever gays they came across simply because they were gay. Hate-crimes statutes simply specify a specific minimum.


JOEMYGOD: Archbishop Of Philadelphia: Don't Beat Up Gays Even If You Disagree With Them