Chicago police say they are considering hate crime charges against four people shown in a Facebook video attacking a mentally disabled man, cutting his scalp with a knife and punching him while yelling obscenities about Donald Trump and "white people."
The 18-year-old man, who had been reported missing by his parents earlier this week, is shown crouching in a corner on a video carried on Facebook Live. His wrists are bound and his mouth is taped shut.
As a woman shoots the video, two men cut the man's shirt with knives, then take turns punching him and stomping his head. One of the men cuts the victim’s hair and scalp with a knife, and it appears the man is bleeding.
As the man crouches against a wall, someone shouts, “F‑‑‑ Donald Trump” and “F‑‑‑ white people.”
The man was found wandering the streets in shorts Tuesday evening in the 3400 block of West Lexington Street in the Homan Square neighborhood, police said. Investigators believe he may have been attacked at a home about a block east from where he was found.
He had been reported missing Monday by his parents who said he disappeared after they dropped him off at a McDonald's in Streamwood on Saturday, according to police. The man apparently met someone he considered a friend, and then got involved with a group of people who stole a van from Streamwood.
Streamwood police said the parents began getting text messages from someone "claiming to be holding him captive." As Streamwood officers investigated the texts, they "discovered Facebook video depicting (the man) being verbally and physically abused."
Lock them all up.
ReplyDeleteThere are no words.Saw this earlier this morning and wanted to vomit.....this is what things have come to ? Not a trace of humanity in a person capable of this. I really hope they get the harshest sentencing possible -utterly despicable
ReplyDeleteThose aren't people that's the problem.They are animals.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet everyday I see animals behind bars, little sweethearts begging for love.
ReplyDeleteThose people are vermin, barbarians, deplorable
As the parent of a special needs child (high functioning autism), this story has truly haunted me. I worry enough as it is when he isn't in my sight. I can't imagine waiting until Monday to report him missing. If he doesn't respond to a text within an hour, I'm geo-locating his phone. Stories like this, and sadly many others, make me genuinely concerned for humanity.
ReplyDeleteI can't watch the video. Have to turn away. Reading about it makes my stomach drop. Smh that teenagers could commit such a heinous event. There are no excuses. My heart goes out to the young man and his family.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the media outrage? Where are all the celebrities speaking out against this vile act? "Considering" hate crime charges?!?! And liberals wonder why DJT was elected.
ReplyDelete"Where is the media outrage?"
ReplyDeleteIs that what Trump's team was expecting from this? The suspects were arrested, they'll be charged. The end.
Some official said this morning that they were young people and young people make mistakes. Is that ok with you, Ay?
ReplyDeleteDidn't you read the story about the white high school football players who kidnapped, abused and "raped" a mentally handicapped black boy with a coathanger - and got a slap on the wrist?
ReplyDeleteMorons.
ReplyDeletei think it's jail time for them.
I don't care. I just don't want Trump to capitalize on this in anyway.
ReplyDeleteAren't they ghetto? Oops I mean "underprivileged" and "disadvantaged". If this had been done to a black person by whites everyone would be up in arms. Black lives matter, indeed
ReplyDeleteInstitutional racism is a real thing that affects millions of minorities, which is why they are underprivileged and disadvantaged. I'm a white middle class woman and I've seen how much easier it is for me to maintain my status because I'm white. If you don't see racism - it's because you don't want to.
ReplyDeleteShame on them!! I saw that this morning before work. It actually made me sick. Let's see if those scumbag losers get what they have coming to them! Hopefully a prison full of people that want jail justice!!!
ReplyDeleteWhere is the news? African Americans doing what they usually do. They often do the same to other African Americans or can't even use a computer.
ReplyDeleteIt is good that if BHO had a son, he will be like one of them, because if his likely son had been the tortured one, he would have been saying speeches until Trump becomes president.
This makes me want to cry. Hate breeds hate. This will be the damaged state of America for four years until the orange Russia living fascist is gone. And yes the reverse of this happened to a disabled young black kid who was raped by a white thug screaming kkk and obscenities at him. That was not taped like this was and the white guy got a slap on the wrist. It's two sides of the same coin.
ReplyDeletew/ u, hate when low human beings r called "animals"...
ReplyDeletewow what a shock that the ineffectual libtard coward of a president (thank god for only 2 weeks) can't call a crime out for what it is or give it a name... a crime of targeted hate and total degradation and racism.
ReplyDeletethank goodness the black police officer reporting the news had the sack to call it what it was ,like the commissioner in dallas. so fucken sick of these savages acting out their hate on innocent people -keep killing each other please and leave decent people alone-but how would get your "fame" without it.. rape,mame,torture...they'll write a rap song about in prison and get a #1 single because that's how bad this country has gotten thx to bozo the clown
and anyone with the "poor disadvantaged youth"shittalk can save it for people who didn't come from a similar background but chose the opposite, because their is a fucken choice to not be a murderin thug POS
ReplyDeleteYou can bet your ass if the roles were reversed, and that was a special needs black boy, there would be a presidential news broadcast and BLM would have burnt down half the cities in the states. There would be wall to wall coverage on the MSM. Outrage worldwide! But no, he's just white, so "meh".
ReplyDeleteThis should piss off everyone, not just Trump supporters. Evil little f*cks.
People wonder why that stereotype is but how can it be ignored when 7/10 times you watch the news and hear of a violent crime it's perpetrated by a black person or person of "color " to be laughably politically correct for the hypocrite wusses here. If it were reversed well that's something I wold love to hear them address -even Sharpton got too old ,fat ,embarrassed and probably stopped making the bucks he used to-to support this kind of injustice. Bye bye Felicia,or Obama who I think was a President,can't recall a thing he did that was good so I'll do what mama said and say nothing about that mess.
ReplyDeletePretty sure @Sorcha was referring to innocent rescue animals we see on tv all the time ,not the scumbag torturing "low human beings "being discussed who are savages -animal too gentle a word).Better luck next time @Inga
ReplyDeleteIKR? Still haven't heard anymore in the media about the the white woman raped and killed in DC on Christmas Day by the black career criminal caught driving her car with her body in the back.Still says he didn't do it.They "hooked up" and she committed suicide is his story I think smdh. #Blackcriminalsmatter#
ReplyDeleteI love Obama. I'm proud to be a liberal.
ReplyDelete@michelle. There Already was a Few weeks ago. HE WAS RAPED. you dumbass . In Texas and the crooked judge Found them NOT GUILTY. STFU. IDIOT
ReplyDeleteChicago is out of control with several thousand shooting deaths this year, mostly gang related. For the person who posted a comment above about white people beating up black people, you are racist but also an idiot because all races are racist not just white, not just black. But only those who think otherwise are racist idiots.
ReplyDeleteLOL at all the trolls on this post. Go back to your caves!
ReplyDeleteThere's no need to burn shit down because the suspects are in JAIL you moron. They didn't get fined and then get to go home to their fat ass wives who eat mayonnaise out the jar. There's no need for "outrage".
ReplyDeleteLOL at "violent crimes". And yet the majority of major wars were perpetuated by who?....
ReplyDeleteNo shit . When Putin takes office, will see whalo is ugly. MF
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ReplyDeleteI saw the video and the cut on his head went to the bone. Those four monsters have to be killed. How can they do this to anyone? Let alone a handicapped person. I just hope the case doesn't get thrown out, just because someone gets sympathetic to young black kids making mistakes. They are in their young twenties and know what is right and wrong. I want the death penalty for them.
ReplyDeleteUnlike the Texas football rapists, they will be incarcerated for a long time.
ReplyDeleteWhat is so heartbreaking is that the beat up mentally handicapped boy considered one of the attackers his friend. The attackers should be tortured by their fellow inmates.
ReplyDelete@huh, yeah it's clear to people who can read @Inga knew that so "better luck next time" on YOU - learn how to read Huh, and go troll someplace else
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