THUGS Brutalize Woman in Michigan because she married her partner on TV!
Horrific: Men beat gay Mich. woman after seeing her marry partner on news segment: police
A 28-year-old woman was brutally beaten in a parkling lot of the Roundtree Apartment complex in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, by three men who had seen her marry her partner on a TV news segment.
A Michigan woman was brutally attacked Monday by three men who had seen her marrying another woman on a TV news report during the brief time last month a gay marriage ban was lifted in the state.
The vicious, unprovoked assault is being investigated as a hate crime after the three men hurled gay slurs as they beat the 28-year-old woman unconscious.
“One of the males stated, ‘Hey b----. Are you that (anti-gay slur) from the news?’ One of the males then punched her in the face, which knocked her to the ground and unconscious,” the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.
The unidentified woman had just gotten off a bus in Ypsilanti Township, outside Ann Arbor, and was walking through a parking lot at the Roundtree Apartments around 6 p.m. when the three goons attacked her, the Detroit Free Press reported.
After she was laid low by a punch, she woke back up and was then kicked in the chest by one of the men. All three then ran off.
One of the men was described as a white man in his 20s, almost 6-feet tall and heavyset, with a low or husky voice, according to the Free Press.
She didn’t get a look at the other two men, police told the newspaper.
One of the males stated, ‘Hey b----. Are you that (anti-gay slur) from the news?’ One of the males then punched her in the face, which knocked her to the ground and unconscious.“She had obvious visual injuries,” Sgt. Geoffrey Fox told the Free Press. “She had injuries to her eye and around her eye. It was swollen and she had fresh injuries on her arms and on her torso. The injuries matched exactly what she said had happened. There’s no reason for us not to believe her and we’ll proceed with the investigation. Everything we see matches what she said.”
The woman, who asked police to not reveal her identity, was featured on a newscast getting married after a gay marriage ban was lifted March 22 based on a federal court decision. After an appeal and several hundred same-sex marriages, a federal judge placed a stay on any further gay marriages.
Anti-gay sentiment is simmering in the state because of the gay marriage debate, according to one activist.
“I was actually surprised it took this long,” Yvonne Siferd, the director of victim services for Equality Michigan, told the Free Press of the reported hate crime. “A lot of times, they are just slurs. Unfortunately, when unchecked, people feel empowered by them and (get physical).”
The decsion to charge the men, who remain at large, with a hate crime will ultimately be up to the prosecutor’s office, police said.
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