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.
I don’t normally post this late. But this couldn’t wait until morning.
sadly this is one area where the conservative white Republican crazies movement hopes to gain adherents among minority populations – by bashing the LGBT community and making the the lowest scapegoat on the totem pole.
it ain’t about sexual orientation. It is purely a function of some evocation human ugliness, and its need for a target, any target. It’s about putting someone below oneself in an utterly humiliating and brutal fashion. Elevating oneself through he debasement of others. Dominance has an evolutionary function. In this case, it is utterly misplaced, functionally useless, in many ways vestigial, but sadly not atavistic.
the Dick Cheney School of Social Welfare.
I have to agree with this. It’s about making someone worse than you are. It’s about getting one’s aggression out on an “other”. It is sad, it is scary, it is utterly alien to those of us who nurture the “other”.
Maybe I am out of line with this, but I get really upset when I hear my local black leaders expressing vitriol when gay people liken their plight with that of the blacks, even when the gay people are black. I know it stems from the religious culture, but I don’t find that a comforting excuse. I find it a cop out. If Jesus was who the Christians say he was, he was not into beating people for any reason, let alone one as stupid as homophobia.
Thank you for sharing that video. It was painful, but a necessary reminder that hate in any form is ugly.
I keep remembering, this individual wasn’t bothering anyone or doing anything other than waiting for a bus. In broad daylight.
People actually spread the word amongst themselves, left their homes or other locations, dropped whatever they were doing, and gathered for the purpose of attacking this individual.
For being in their neighborhood, waiting for a bus.
There are days when reading/seeing a person like this beaten-for no good reason-that your stomach just sinks and twists in gut wrenching agony and I wonder why the human race thinks they are any better than animals.