Wednesday, August 23, 2017

A Sad Story

You are invited to a pool party by someone who you think is a friend only to turn on you in the worst possible way.
Police investigating after horrific assault on transgender teen by over a dozen people
LGBTQ Nation
By Jeff Taylor
August 21, 2017

Phoenix police are investigating the assault on a transgender teenager by up to 20 people.

The horrifying incident was filmed by one of the attackers and posted to social media. In the video, Dakota Kern, 18, can be seen at a pool party she says she was lured to, where a group of people began attacking her. She is seen lying on the ground, as people punch and kick her.

Kern told the local CBS news affiliate that after people began yelling anti-gay slurs at her, she and her friend tried to leave. At that point, a man yelled “get it, get it,” prompting the attack, she reports
I cannot imagine the horror that she went though.

But the story didn’t begin then but four days earlier according to RAW Story
Trans woman attacked at Phoenix pool party — days after sharing video of herself beating a black girl
By Eric W. Dolan
22 AUG 2017

A transgender teen who was attacked by a group of people at a pool last week had uploaded a video of herself pummeling a black girl just days before.

A group of up to 20 people attacked the 18-year-old transgender woman, Dakota Kern, at a pool party in Phoenix on August 16 — and the brutal beating was shared on social media by the perpetrators.

On August 12, just four days earlier, Kern had shared a video of herself pulling a black teen by the hair and pummeling her in the head. The Facebook video shows Kern calling the black girl a “b*tch” as she drags her across pavement. Kern also says in the video not to call her a “dude.”
It appears that girl had been taunting Dakota and the first attack might have been the result of the harassment.

Arizona hate crime law doesn’t include gender identity or expression but it does include sexual orientation which might be used for the hate crime charges since they shouted anti-gay slurs. Hopefully they throw the book at them in this climate of hate.

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