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Rally planned to condemn McDonald's beating of transgender woman

190 posted on 04/24/2011 2:39:24 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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“....She said of her attackers: ‘They just seemed like they wanted to pick a fight that night.’

She said she was approached by one of the girls, who accused her of ‘looking at my man’.

When Miss Polis insisted that she was not even aware of the girl’s partner, the physical abuse began with the girl spitting in her face.

She said: ‘She started ripping my hair, throwing me on the floor, kicking me in my face.

‘I got up and tried to hit the girl. I had her in a corner, to try to get her off me, and the other girl came up and started kicking me in my face, punching me in my nose, rippping my earring out of my earlobes.’

Miss Polis said there was no way to escape the attack, adding: ‘ Every time I tried to walk away they followed me.’

And, in what will cause major embarrassment to McDonald’s and its ‘family restaurant’ image, Miss Polis said staff not only allowed the abuse to continue, one employee - identified as Vernon Hackett from images and comment he put online - filmed the incident.....”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379691/Transgender-girl-beaten-seizure-McDonalds-attack-victim-hate-crime.html


191 posted on 04/24/2011 2:42:46 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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