Police documents obtained by ABC elaborate, recounting how the woman told officers she first encountered the group while telling them to stop “harassing” people at a local transit center. That drew the group’s attention, and they began “charging towards her”, the police documents alleged.
She told police she fell and heard someone yell a transphobic slur. As she tried to get up and leave, members of the group began assaulting her, and one of the alleged attackers choked her. The victim reportedly said she believed she was going to die.
ABC reported that video of the reported attack – recorded by a witness – showed the group “violently punch and kick the victim” in her head and upper body, including while she was on the ground, according to what police wrote in documents. The group walked away while the woman was on the ground, police said.
Police arrested two of the suspects – boys ages 15 and 17 who were siblings – near the scene of the alleged attack soon after it happened.
A third boy, 16, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault and a hate crime. Police put out a plea on social media to help identify the fourth suspect, posting surveillance pictures of him, taking note of his distinctive facial hair, necklace and jacket. Court filings cited by ABC said officers identified him through his high school campus security team.
A family member on the local Crime Stoppers chapter’s website recognized the man in the photo and urged him to surrender. Police said that man then turned himself over to police to be booked on counts of assault and a hate crime.
Police did not identify the three teen suspects because of their ages. They identified the fourth as 25-year-old Ramodre Edwards.
King county prosecutors charged the two sibling suspects with assault, strangulation, great bodily harm and a hate crime. Both pleaded not guilty and were ordered to remain on electronic home monitoring, prosecutors reportedly said.
FBI: sounds like some concerned citizens neutralising a terrorist threat to me.
This is going to get buried in less than a day
That article has a lot of “alleged” for something there’s a video of…
Welcome to the concept of “innocent until proven guilty”, where accusations levied by newspapers are considered libel unless those accusations have been proven in court.
For instance, what if they get some of the charges dropped, and have another reduced? Now the newspaper has printed a criminal accusation that wasn’t proven in court, and is in hot water for exaggerating things to intentionally ruin the attacker’s image.
I understand the need to use the ‘alleged’ language, but serious question: Why is it necessary to say ‘alleged attack’? The fact that there was an attack isn’t in question, only who committed it.
Alleged “hate crime” attack. Not alleged attack.
Police arrested two of the suspects – boys ages 15 and 17 who were siblings – near the scene of the alleged attack soon after it happened.
Emphasis mine, text straight from the article.
Everything must be “alleged” until adjudication by a court of law. That’s how it works.
Especially under this administration. Far right cancel culture means the attackers become the victims who were only defending themselves, and the victim is somehow the villain for sticking up for other people.
I wonder what the rest of their families are like, the sick fucks.
Kudos to her for standing up for others. I hope this doesn’t keep her from thinking twice in the future.
A family member on the local Crime Stoppers chapter’s website recognized the man in the photo and urged him to surrender.
At least one of them is a quality person.
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You and your transphobic perspective are the problem, not the other way around. Just as there’s no place in civilized society for racists or bigots, there’s no place for those who go out of their way to deliberately put people down for expressing who they are.
Well since we’re apparently debating civil rights, I suggest we put YOURS up for debate. To start, anyone with your opinions obviously shouldn’t be allowed around children. You seem predisposed to commit hate crimes. So you shouldn’t be allowed to work as a teacher or caregiver for children, you shouldn’t be allowed within 500’ of a park or playground, and you shouldn’t be allowed in public bathrooms where children are present. Sorry, but your bigotry simply makes you too dangerous to be allowed near children. Some kids are born queer, and you would probably try to hurt them. We need to restrict your civil rights for the sake of the children.
Hi, can you please not be bigoted against trans people? Thanks
I’m not.
Ok, then why are you disputing the legitimacy of this person’s gender
PM me if you want to ask questions because mods don’t allow honest discussion of the topic.
“Honest discussion” lmao
Scientific consensus is that trans people are real. If you disagree with science then I won’t waste my time talking to you
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You’re entire breed should self exterminate. Truly, you hateful oppressive dullards bring about almost all of the pain and suffering in the world.
Lolol. Why even be here if you’re gonna be a bigot? Go back to reddit if you can’t see value in being kind to others
what are you trying to say?
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Being a hateful bigot is not being dissident… it’s being a hateful bigot. Trans people aren’t some group that’s oppressing you or anyone else. You’re the oppressor in this situation. Look in the mirror and ask yourself why you hate someone who’s not like you.
Please keep convincing yourself you’re a “dissident”, while derailing the convo about someone getting assaulted by “”“”“dissidents”“”“”
you being alive and able to express yourself
See, this is the problem.
They keep trying to control what people think instead of letting us make up our own minds.Doesn’t that feel threatening?
I’d be fine if those kids got life in prison, or someone calling every place they work for the rest of their lives and getting them fired
While great on paper, most of them were pretty young, not even adults yet. Make them do empathy and LGBTQ courses and community service with LGBTQ organizations- lots of it- and let them start with a clean slate. They seriously fucked up, but we should teach them how society is supposed to work.
The 25 year old definitely needs to be charged like the grown ass man he is. And have him stop hanging out with minors. And then also work with LGBTQ organizations/community service.
The problem is, this IS how we are teaching them society is supposed to work. I’m surprised empathy and LGBTQ courses haven’t been outlawed already.
Conservatives have explicitly gone after SEL (social emotional learning) curriculum. It’s one of those toxic keywords like “CRT” that they attack instinctively.
I’ve seen local universities get harassed on Facebook for having queer studies classes.
I do not understand who is downvoting me, unless the magats have infiltrated Lemmy
Lemvotes.org will show you who voted for you.
Usually it’s just one or two grumpy assholes. Not someone who has commented in the thread.
Oh shit. You mean I can find my .world downvote gremlin?!
Yep.
Go hate somewhere else, bigot.
I’m criticizing the current bigoted fascist state of our country, and you call me a bigot? Are you high?
Unfortunately bad faith bigot accusations abound and lessen the effect of real bigotry allegations.
Almost everybody has been falsely accused of bigotry by some person dishonestly stroking off their outrage boner pretending they meant something they didn’t, so the real accusations cannot be distinguished from the fake ones.
The people that do this, this is just the excuse they can use to beat up on someone. If they were on the right they would use whatever excuse would allow them there. They don’t actually give a shit, they want to attack somebody and will not be bothered getting a Justified situation for it.
Here we are losing the country and the culture, and we are in fighting defending from bad faith the bigotry allegations from our supposed allies. Our undercover enemies pretending to be us would be well suited to spearhead those attacks however.
Sorry, that’s not how it reads to me. Maybe not high enough…
Imprison the parents. Charge them with equal crimes.
Guilt by association. But you liked a post from a guy that celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination so therefore hate crime charges for you pal. Do you see why that’s a bad idea?
Liking a post isn’t a crime so no I don’t see anything.
Guilt by association. You could definitely be sent to prison for it. Cheering on charging family members of people is beyond ignorant. It is something they have started to do though, the feds. Very unchristian.
You’re speaking nonsense and expecting it to be a gotcha moment. Do you even know what day it is?
Well I’m glad that being disagreeable to everyone as a matter of course is working out for you. As long as you’re happy that’s what’s important. Don’t worry about the fact that you’re giving everybody else fighting for the same things a bad name.
Prison isn’t a place anybody goes and learns to become less violent. Foster care is an unfortunately similar story.
It could be, if we were doing this society shit right. Unfortunately, the hate groups won.
Then lock them up for life.
That’s just a death sentence with extra steps. You do understand where this sort of scorched earth type retaliation leads right?
I think it leads to more parents being responsible for their kids actions, and people committing hate crimes out of society. Tolerating hate is how you breed fascists.
Parents stop having “exclusive” control of their children at around 6-7yo, arguably younger but… Teenagers acting like this is a result of the society they are raised in.
So your solution is to incarcerated all of society? Go door to door and lock up the entire neighborhood they live in? Arrest all their teachers? Maybe the person who was assaulted is to blame and should be locked up because they caused those kids to get violent in the first place 1.
No, these actions are owned by these kids, stop trying to shift the blame.
I am not promoting tolerance for hate, I’m advocating for implementing real solutions to problems. Prison is for sweeping problems under a rug and letting them faster and grow. Eye for an eye seems really tolerant when you’re starting from a position of “kill them and their entire families for a bruising”.
1 for the record, that is often how the legal system handles these issues and is how American schools are supposed to.
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Show me a non-made-up name. I’ll wait.
