Mike Pence Supporter Angry Over Hamilton Protest Charged In Racist Attack On Asian Diner Patrons

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

A supporter of Vice President-elect Mike Pence faces a court hearing next month after police said he called two women in a New York City diner racist names and pepper-sprayed a bystander who defended them.

Frank Camino, 56, is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 19 on charges of assault with intent to cause physical injury, attempted assault, recklessly causing injury and harassment in the second degree, local news website Gothamist reported.

Police arrested him early Nov. 20 at a diner after he reportedly called two Chinese-American women “c**ts” and “whores” and said they should “go back to Tokyo,” the website reported. Then he pepper-sprayed a man who stepped up to defend the women and said he doesn’t “tolerate racism,” according to a witness. Gothamist couldn’t reach Camino for comment.

One of the women, Sally Wen Mao, said the “loud, angry” man tore into her and a friend after she asked him to lower his voice. He had been griping how “disgusting” and “racist” the cast of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” was to issue an appeal to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, according to Mao, a 29-year-old Chinese-American poet.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-supporter-racist-diner_us_583ca1cde4b06539a78a0a1c

[LonePirate]

1. Do all of these idiots suddenly think they are above the law because their candidate won?

Do they think his win permits them to release all of the anger over their unsatisfying sex lives or manhood?

[Retrograde]

2. Yes, they do

They've seen the media passively sit by while Trump attacked women, minorities, and everyone else he didn't like, and take it as carte blanche to do the same.

[TomCADem]

3. Trump Gave Them A Scapegoat, Its Better Than Policy Proposals

Trump can privatize Medicare, roll back the minimum wage, roll back public education, but he is pro-working class because he gives them an easy scapegoat. It is like slave owners during the civil war who got poor non-slave owning whites to fight to defend slavery.

[progree]

4. Speaking of giving people scapegoats, Lyndon B. Johnson once said (and Snopes says its true)

http://www.snopes.com/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/

[TomCADem]

8. Too True. MLK Said Something Similar. We Are Back to the Politics of the 1960s...

...and Democrats need to respond by pointing out that racism and sexism are not just used to oppress minorities and women, but also white men by giving them a scapegoat that distracts them from how they are being oppressed by folks like Donald Trump.

[Trust Buster]

17. Excellent analogy.

[KittyWampus]

20. "Trump Gave Them A Scapegoat, Its Better Than Policy Proposals". A concise statement

Maybe I'd say "easier" than policy proposals. And even it's "more powerful" than policy proposals.

But in saying Trump gave them a scapegoat... just that in itself speaks of a major truth.

It's so primal. It's part of our societal and individual evolution.

It's what humanity does. It's why we read "The Lottery" in grade school English.

The psychology behind it all. And the attendant biology.

My hope is this all flames out quickly. There most likely WILL be destruction.

[world wide wally]

6. A Trump win worried me much more than a loss for exactly this reason

[TeamPooka]

7. That's why they voted for him. So they could act like this in public and be dicks.

One of these Trumphumpers is going to attack someone then find out not every liberal is a peace loving hippie and get his ass kicked.

[smirkymonkey]

12. I can't wait until that happens.

Notice how most of the victims of these attacks have been women. They are such pathetic cowards.

[TeamPooka]

23. I'm looking forward to that video too.

[elmac]

9. another psychotic disturbance caused by a Fox news lobotomy

seeing it all over the country, and its only going to get worse.

[atreides1]

11. I'm not a Fox News fan!

But this isn't just Fox anymore...CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC...all contributed to what is happening, now!

I long for the days when crap like this could be placed on the Fox News doorstep, unfortunately those days are gone!

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Yes. Yes.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

24. You mean because their candidate is

above the law. Looks like they don't get that they're not rich and famous enough to get the Trump treatment.

[pangaia]

5. Check out Sally Wen Mao's FB wall.

She is quite the poet and quiet a woman.

Brava Sally !

[JI7]

10. "called two Chinese-American women c**ts and whores and said they should go back to Tokyo, "

fucking stupid and violent . bunch of ignorant assholes.

is it any surprise such types would vote for Trump ?

[Snarkoleptic]

14. These tender little racists are easily triggered by non-whites & anti-racist comments.

[heaven05]

15. AND IT WILL

be getting a lot worse. These type of people, who have been here all along and are/were legion, can now openly spout and present danger. Yeah they may get charged and all that bs.......but they are coming out of an imposed closet of civility that our society HAD and growing in numbers to openly defy that civility and overwhelm those who are different from the white citizen. Mostly, they are cowards and will run, my granddaddy proved that many years ago, but for some only death will solve all their earthly problems. You will see what the trumpfuhrer and the New Nazi Party of AmeriKKKa has unleashed

It will not be pretty.

In ameriKKKa you get what you pay for and this time voted for.

[KittyWampus]

21. We have to remember that before Trump, the Republican party fostered these people using dog whistles

The Southern Strategy was ongoing for decades. The Republican party actively used racism to win elections. But they did it on the sly.

Trump and Bannon just decided to go Full Monty.

[heaven05]

22. yep, so true

especially the nixon-atwater strategy. My friend and I were talking last evening in the coffee shop about how quick the racist right reacted THE 64-65 VOTING AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS and how ongoing that reactionary racist movement has been since the early 70's on through the sly "dog whistles" of Reagan ("welfare queens" ect), Bush I and shrub II culminating in this horror call the trumpfuhrer and the New Nazi Party of AmeriKKKa.

[Roland99]

16. tHeir furher will pay their legal bills, eh?

[neeksgeek]

19. Maybe he'll pardon them.

Or use the DOJ to put pressure on local law enforcement to dismiss these cases... (not sarcasm)

[Sunlei]

18. assholes around here shout out random racist crap from their cars as they pass walkers.

A few like the news articles disruptive idiot get arrested, thousands of others get away with this crap every day.