This is hatred. Set someone apart. Make them “other.” Make them less than human.
This is where it leads. This is what it looks like.
This is a lynching. This is a hate crime.
Warning: The images and video after the jump are disturbing and violent.
FALMOUTH, Trelawny – A cross-dreser was set upon and severely beaten by a mob in Falmouth’s Water Square yesterday morning.
Police who were called to the scene had to fire warning shots to disperse the stone-throwing, stick-wielding mob, which succeeded in tearing off the man’s black-and-white form-fitting blouse and jet black wig.
… The news of the man’s presence in the community spread rapidly and in a matter of minutes scores of angry residents converged on the scene and began to rain blows all over the cross-dresser’s body with sticks, stones and whatever weapon they could find.“Where is the police station at?” the frightened man screamed.
During the melee, the wig the man was wearing fell off and wads of newspaper stuffed in a brasserie to lift the man’s chest dislodged, while a cosmetic kit containing lipsticks of varying colours was thrown from a bag he was carrying, much to the amusement of the large crowd who stood watching.
“B***y boy fe dead,” persons among the mob shouted.
The sentiments were echoed by the rest of the riled-up crowd.
“Falmouth no pet no b***y boy. We no want none a them bout here,” one woman yelled.After the mob dispersed, the victim was whisked off in a police service vehicle, much to the disapproval of the crowd who rushed upon the vehicle demanding the man’s release.
… The man was admitted to hospital. However, a police spokesman said last night that a group of people, who wanted to beat the man on his release, were waiting outside the hospital, which, he said, could delay his release from the health facility.
This is a lynching. A black-on-black lynging. Some context.
Crossposted from The Republic of T
