Finally a real hate crime to report. This is not simply another hate hoax perpetrated by imaginary Trump supporters in MAGA hats, carrying nooses, and bleach. Surprisingly, it’s a black man being charged. Because as much as the hate crime rap was meant to protect blacks, there’s another minority that has even more privilege . . . transgenders. Here a man dressed as a woman got into a car accident, an angry mob gathered, and he was assaulted by at least three men dressed as men.
Man, 29, is arrested ‘for beating a transgender woman’ in horrific attack caught on camera after a minor traffic accident in Texas
Police in Dallas have arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with the brutal beating of a transgender woman following a traffic accident that was caught on video.
Edward Thomas was taken into custody at 9.30pm on Sunday over the attack on 23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker on Friday, and booked into the county jail on a charge of aggravated assault causing a serious bodily injury.
Police did not say whether anyone else would be arrested over the beating, which happened in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people, but said the case is being investigated as a hate crime.
They should arrest a couple more of these animals because I clearly see at least two others stomping the guy while he’s on the ground.
Footage from the attack posted on Friday to the Facebook page of user Taj Mahal shows a man in a white shirt viciously beating Booker, apparently into unconsciousness, while the crowd looks on and homophobic slurs are shouted. Several women eventually carried the victim’s limp body to safety.
As of Monday, the disturbing video has been viewed more than 112,000 times.
Family members told station WFAA that Booker suffered facial fractures and injured her right arm in the attack.
The video documenting the attack shows Booker, sporting a pink wig and a blue top, being beaten and called names. At points she appears to be saying something to the gathering onlookers, but her voice can’t be made out in the available footage.
I have no idea what he was saying as he minced and pranced about while encircled by the mob, but does it matter? Tranny or not, you can’t just beat people over words.
The video appears to flip into selfie mode at one point, and the person recording appears to be laughing with a man in a white shirt and pants.
That same individual in white later appears to charge at Booker, throwing her to the ground. He then punches her repeatedly as two or three other individuals join in to kick her while she is down on the ground.
Some voices can be heard screaming for the attack to stop, and eventually Booker, after having been beaten across the parking lot of the apartment complex, is aided by a group of women who get her into a car before taking her to a hospital.
The video of the incident posted by a Facebook user Taj Mahal was accompanied with the caption ‘THIS IS A HATE CRIME! Muhlaysia Booker Don’t Worry Sis I Got The Video For Dallas Police Department This Is A Hate Crime And Everyone Who Participated Will Be Prosecuted!’
Pierre Booker, Muhlaysia’s father, called the person responsible for the attack a ‘coward,’ and told NBCDFW that his daughter has faced hatred for being a transgender woman in the past.
Pierre, you’re as confused as Muhlaysia is. That’s your son, not your daughter.
‘All I tell them you know is I love them. I love them for whoever they are. And I’m not God, I’m not the judge, I’m not the jury,’ Muhlaysia’s grandmother added, saying she hoped police view the attack as a hate crime.
‘So all I pray is for these people to find it in their hearts to accept people just like God does.’
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings posted a statement to Facebook saying that he watched the video and was angered by what appeared to be ‘mob violence’ directed against the woman.
‘I am in contact with the chief and she assured me that the Dallas Police Department is fully investigating, including the possibility that this was a hate crime,’ wrote Mayor Rawlings.
‘Those who did this do not represent how Dallasites feel about our thriving LGBTQ community. We will not stand for this kind of behavior.’
In response to some witnesses claiming that Booker was the aggressor in the early stages of the confrontation, the 23-year-old took to Facebook Sunday, writing in a blistering status updatr: ‘There’s no live videos of me attacking no cisgender woman !!!!’
She went on to say she was ‘never raised to hit a woman.’
A GoFundMe page has been launched to help Booker with her medical bills.
Leslie McMurray, a transgender woman who is an education and advocacy coordinator at the Resource Center in Dallas, called the attack ‘terrifying.’
‘You could just feel the energy and the malevolence of this crowd escalate as the violence ensued and there was no voice standing up saying stop,’ McMurray told WFAA. ‘There’s no reason that our lives are less valuable than someone else or that we should be someone’s punching bag just because we’re transgender.’
Last November, the FBI reported that 7,175 hate crimes were committed in the United States in 2017, the most recent year for which the agency had compiled data.
Of those, 1,130 were based on sexual orientation bias and 119 on gender identity bias. The data showed a 5 pr cent increase in hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation bias and a 4 per cent decrease in hate crimes motivated by gender identity bias. Of crimes motivated by gender identity bias, 106 targeted transgender people, a 1 per cent uptick from 2016.
Look, I’m pretty sure that everyone knows that I think transgenders are freaks. They are nothing more than men in women’s clothes regardless of what they and their liberal defenders believe. But that being said, I also think they are mentally ill so I would no more physically attack one (unless it was self-defense) than I would assault someone with dementia or the like. But, as we just saw, there are those that will. Personally, I don’t care what gender anyone wants to pretend to be. Just don’t get in my face about me having to accept you, stay in your appropriate public restrooms, stop asking for special treatment, and we’ll get along just fine. Considering who did the beating, it’s yet another example of tolerant liberals being intolerant.
In the end, I don’t know what the moral of this story is, but I knew I had to post it because it sure did make for a good freak show! All it’s missing is a midget.
