Posted on 04/13/2010 10:52:33 AM PDT by NickyAitch
This is a developing situation, and we’ll be updating it continuously as we learn more. But in a series of events which went almost completely unreported and unknown throughout the weekend’s SRLC doings, it appears that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s chief fundraiser Alexandra “Allee” Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown were severely beaten in the French Quarter after a fundraiser Friday night.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehayride.com ...
...we also understand from someone who visited Allee Bautsch in the hospital Saturday morning that she and Brown were followed and attacked expressly because they had Palin pins on (she heard one of the attackers say “Let’s get them, they have Palin pins on”) – so the attack WAS politically motivated as its victims understood it. It was not a mugging, it was not an argument gone wrong and it was not a bar fight.
But their assailants were a group of people, which would tend to mitigate against a run-of-the-mill mugging.
Hate crime.
Two words for these Republican operative types: concealed carry.
Unfortunately, get used to it folks, and the scum bags will get away with it. If the couple had defended themselves, they would have been arrested and charged with the hate crime of self defense. Tick tick tick.
Yes, I believe this would fall within the parameters of Louisiana Revised Statute 14:107.2 (re: attack upon someone because of perceived membeship in a particular group).
Yep. This is only going to get worse.
When a few of these thugs find themselves flat on their backs with smoking holes in their chests the behavior of the others will change right quick.
The people who do this kind of stuff are lying shits.
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