WISCONSIN: Man Attacks 14 Year-Old Girl Carrying Gay Pride Flag

[WillParkinson]

WISCONSIN: Man Attacks 14 Year-Old Girl Carrying Gay Pride Flag

La Crosse, Wisconsin police are investigating an incident in which a man shoved a 14 year-old girl in an attempt to wrestle away a version of the gay pride flag the teen was going to carry in the city's Maple Leaf Parade.

The teen was rollerblading and carrying a flag pole with two rainbow flags — one a hybrid of the American flag and the gay pride flag — as members of 7 Rivers LGBT Resource Center’s float prepared for the parade about 9:45 a.m. Saturday on Rose Street, said Roseanne St. Sauver, the center’s executive director. Commodore Mark Schneider, who was on a float nearby, approached the girl and put his hands on the flagpole, St. Sauver said. St. Sauver walked over, placed her hands on the pole and told him, “Please stop, she’s a 14-year-old child." “He said, ‘I do not care. Look what you are teaching them,’” St. Sauver said. That’s when, St. Sauver said, Schneider shoved the girl with his body. St. Sauver said Schneider told the girl: “Go to a country where they will hang people like you.“ The incident left the teen crying, and others upset, St. Sauver said. This is the first year the center has participated in the parade. “I had tears in my eyes,” she said. “He specifically targeted us and made statements about our sexual orientation.”

Schneider says he was upset about the alteration of the American flag and not anybody's sexuality. Yeah, right. Yesterday he issued an apology to the girl and his family, presumably in return for assault charges being dropped.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/09/wisconsin-man-attacks-14-year-old-girl.html

(But remember, as someone pointed out yesterday, 'she's 14, she can't be a lesbian'.)

[joeybee12]

1. Takes a big man to pick on a 14-year-old...

what scum.

[superduperfarleft]

2. I'm not seeing the apology.

Not like it matters, it'll probably be along the lines of "sorry you're offended" or something.

[joeybee12]

4. "I'm sorry you got in the way of my fist" n/t

[bullwinkle428]

3. Once again, DU rules prohibit me from expressing what I'd like

to see happen to this guy! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Fucking Talibanesque scumbag.

[Glorfindel]

5. Could we make subtle references to a former Romanian prince?

Vlad, the Impaler? :evilgrin:

[jsamuel]

6. he assaulted a 14 year old girl, he would have been designated as a sexual preditor of children

You don't assault children.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. This man attacked a child in pubic and walks free?

Scum, heterosexualist scum. Those who oppose equality, these are your allies, stand by them with pride as they assault little girls. Is that one of their 'Sacraments' that makes them 'Sanctified'?

[The Philosopher]

8. Don't worry little girl

We're slowly not implementing the things that would signal how to react to the LGBT community. So you'll have even more of those fun punches in the future!

Responsibility is not our problem!

:sarcasm:

[joeybee12]

10. Take the "long view" little girl...n/t

[dgibby]

9. If that was my child,

there's no way I'd drop the charges. In fact, I'd pursue the charges AND sue the hell out of that asshole.

[sakabatou]

11. WTF?!

[northofdenali]

12. My husband, and I think he's right, says it's all based on fear.

Fear that oneself may be gay or lesbian, fear of the acceptance of anyone "different", just plain old fear.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

13. Disgusting, But (Sadly) Not Surprising

The manifestations of anti-gay hatred are at the highest level I have seen in years. Preachers call for us to be executed. People hold signs calling for our execution at NOM rallies. But picking on a 14-year-old is a new low, even for the fundie haters. This shit needs to start to be addressed. If that had been my child, I would have sued his ass for every penny he has.

[queerart]

14. Another Christian Terrorist......

Nothing like being an adult male, and manhandling a little girl......


Just what Terrorists like to do.... to frighten others that don't have the same tools/advantage to fight back on an equal footing.....


So why hasn't he been charged? If a Queer manhandled a soccer Mom, you can fucking well bet there would be charges out the ass....


... and everyone knows why there will be no charges brought against this Terrorist..... I don't even need to say it......

[TexasObserver]

15. recommend

[ZombieHorde]

16. Anger inducing. nt

[Iggo]

17. Man attacks 14 yr old girl because...

Oh wait. There's no excuse for that.

[HelenWheels]

18. Schneider needs to go and live in a country that hangs people he hates not the other way around

Schneider told the girl: “Go to a country where they will hang people like you.“

No I'm not condoning what those other hateful countries do but if that is the way Schneider wants things to be he needs to move to the place where it's done the way he likes it.