Posted on 04/24/2011 6:31:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A transgender woman beaten at a Baltimore County McDonald's spoke out on Saturday, saying that the attack was "definitely a hate crime" and that she's been afraid to go out in public ever since.
"They said, 'That's a dude, that's a dude and she's in the female bathroom,' " said Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, who said she stopped at the Rosedale restaurant to use the restroom. "They spit in my face."
A worker at the restaurant taped Monday's attack and created a graphic video that went viral last week. After the video garnered hundreds of thousands of views on websites, McDonald's issued a statement condemning the incident, and on Saturday the worker who taped the incident was fired.
The video shows two females — one of them a 14-year-old girl — repeatedly kicking and punching Polis in the head as an employee and a patron try to intervene. Others can be heard laughing, and men are seen standing idly by.
....Her twin brother, Matty Polis, who also lives in Baltimore, said it's been painful to watch her have to endure these sorts of attacks.
"My sister has gotten this her entire life," Matty Polis said. "Being the way she is, she's always had a hard time."
Polis, who was raised by her grandmother in Dundalk and Essex, graduated from Chesapeake High and hasn't had a job or stable place to stay for the past two years, according to her mother, Angela Thomas.
Polis, who is white, believes race may have also been a factor in her attack— both the assailants were black, according to the police report.
Equality Maryland has called on state Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler to step in and investigate the case as a hate crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
>> She said she was approached by one of the girls, who accused her of ‘looking at my man’.
Yeah, the beating victim made that statement on a recent video which modifies the dynamic of the ‘bathroom’ situation.
Do we know for sure if the beating victim occupied the bathroom at the same time the assailants were in it? If so, I expect the defense will argue the beating victim provoked the assailants which is an eye-roll given the dominance exhibited by the two attacking women.
“Ghetto culture vs. LGBT lunacy”
And here’s a dirty little secret: blacks don’t like homos. They really, really don’t.
So many strange bedfellows in liberaldom. Blacks vs. homos; Moslems (sort of) vs. homos; blacks vs. “hispanics”, etc. They are often mutually exclusive.
18-year-old charged in McDonald's beating
[excerpt] Baltimore County police have named the 18-year-old charged with beating a transgender woman at Rosedale McDonald's, amid demands from some community members that the incident be investigated as a hate crime.
Teonna Monae Brown of the 2000 block of Kelbourne Road in Rosedale was charged in the attack on Chrissy Lee Polis. The incident was videotaped and went viral online late last week, with hundreds of thousands of views on various websites. The video shows Polis, 22, being kicked and punched in the head by two people until she appears to have a seizure. While one employee and a patron try to intervene, others can be seen standing and watching, and some are laughing.
Brown, who was arrested Friday, has been charged with one count of first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree assault. She remains at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $150,000 bond.
A 14-year-old girl has also been charged in the attack, but her name has not been released because the charges were filed in juvenile court.
Scott Shellenberger, the state's attorney for Baltimore County, has said his office plans to gather additional evidence to determine whether the April 18 attack on Polis can be prosecuted as a hate crime.
Another woman filed assault charges against Brown in July, which prosecutors dropped three months later..... [end excerpt]
Found your 2 exceptions, huh?
There’s a whoooole bunch. If ya care to see um, just let me know Reb.
No one deserves a beat down for being different. That includes gays, blacks and Christians.
The fact you’re looking for a side to cheer for is disgusting.
Well, I agree with you there.
LOL!
And yet TRUE.
“Baltimore County police on Monday released additional details of an attack last week on a transgender woman in a fast-food restaurant, during which another woman, they said, was assaulted after attempting to intervene.
The incident prompted widespread condemnation after a video, captured by an employee of the McDonald’s at which it occurred, went viral on the Internet. Two females, one 14 years old, the other 18, have been charged in the attack.
The woman who intervened, Vicky L. Thoms, “attempted to separate the suspects” from the 22-year-old transgender woman, Chrissy Lee Polis, according to a court document that provides details of the attack. Darick Jones, the restaurant’s manager, told police that he saw Thoms being punched in the face, “which caused her to become disoriented.” The suspects then pushed Thoms away while the attack on Polis continued, the document said....”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-mcdonalds-beating-case-20110425,0,5447618.story
The two black males kissing I guess was too offensive for ya!
Good move!
So, Mr. Reb, ya wanna see more black homos kissing and doing the homo thing, other that what was remove after *someone* complained?
Lemme know Reb.
Indeed, “for a biscuit”, as this black preacher told me, the “black” people will sell out to homosexuals and join up as “victims” as you say. These idiots will blame us, and, meanwhile, will not see they will do the bidding of their masters by provoking a right wing union of libertarians which will direct anger at them, as that union of libertarians will be manipulated against them in the process.
I think this is the overall ploy.
And a damn waste of human potential.
But the Left doesn’t want potential, they want power.
Oh, I see - trying to accuse me of squeeling.
Nope, sorry; you’re wrong about that. Now, if it had been !$#$!$#@!$ing pix, I’d’ve complained.
So, Mr. Reb, ya wanna see more black homos kissing and doing the homo thing, other that what was remove after some mysterious person complained?
Lemme know Reb.
I don’t know who that mysterious person is. Could’ve been the admin himself.
Why dog me on this? Did I complain at all to you or just write “you found the 1 exception”?
I DID NOT SQUAWK TO THE ADMIN, seeing as you care about it so much to keep dogging me. PERIOD. MY WORD IS HONOR. SWEAR TO GOD ON STACK OF BIBLES.
BTW, I’m a “Mrs.”
I didn’t realize you were such a cry baby.
Take care.
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