Apparently, Bill-O's lesbian gang were in fact the victims of a hate crime

[Downtown Hound]

and they fought back. Here is Billo in his usual bloviating, vile, putrid state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT1zjs0y6Z4&mode=related&search=

And just recently, I came across this article.

http://www.racewire.org/archives/2007/06/black_lesbians_in_nyc_get_11_y_1.html


On June 14, four African-American women—Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24)—received sentences ranging from three-and-a-half to 11 years in prison. None of them had previous criminal records. Two of them are parents of small children.

Their crime? Defending themselves from a physical attack by a man who held them down and choked them, ripped hair from their scalps, spat on them, and threatened to sexually assault them—all because they are lesbians.

The mere fact that any victim of a bigoted attack would be arrested, jailed and then convicted for self-defense is an outrage. But the length of prison time given further demonstrates the highly political nature of this case and just how racist, misogynistic, anti-gay, anti-youth and anti-worker the so-called U.S. justice system truly is.

The description of the events, reported below, is based on written statements by a community organization (FIERCE) that has made a call to action to defend the four women, verbal accounts from court observers and evidence from a surveillance camera.




If there's any truth in this at all then this is one of the most outrageous things I've heard in a long time, not only the fact that these women are behind bars at all but that Bill so twisted this into something so outrageously far from what it actually is. I guess I really shouldn't be surprised coming from him, but I am still angry.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I posted about this in GLBT after the sentencing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x53301

Kangaroo court. Moronic judge. Glad to see there's some media interest in this miscarriage of justice.

Even if it's only the imbecilic O'Reilly.

[MNDemNY]

2. I live in NYC and this case was widely covered

The women apparently initiated the attack, after the man made VERBAL gestures to one of the women, apparently one of the women attacked him with a knife. Check out the New York Tomes coverage, and you will most likely draw a different conclusion than did "fierce". http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F7071EFF3E5B0C768DDDAF0894DF404482