Police documents obtained by ABC elaborate, recounting how the woman told officers she first encountered the group while telling them to stop “harassing” people at a local transit center. That drew the group’s attention, and they began “charging towards her”, the police documents alleged.
She told police she fell and heard someone yell a transphobic slur. As she tried to get up and leave, members of the group began assaulting her, and one of the alleged attackers choked her. The victim reportedly said she believed she was going to die.
ABC reported that video of the reported attack – recorded by a witness – showed the group “violently punch and kick the victim” in her head and upper body, including while she was on the ground, according to what police wrote in documents. The group walked away while the woman was on the ground, police said.
Police arrested two of the suspects – boys ages 15 and 17 who were siblings – near the scene of the alleged attack soon after it happened.
A third boy, 16, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault and a hate crime. Police put out a plea on social media to help identify the fourth suspect, posting surveillance pictures of him, taking note of his distinctive facial hair, necklace and jacket. Court filings cited by ABC said officers identified him through his high school campus security team.
A family member on the local Crime Stoppers chapter’s website recognized the man in the photo and urged him to surrender. Police said that man then turned himself over to police to be booked on counts of assault and a hate crime.
Police did not identify the three teen suspects because of their ages. They identified the fourth as 25-year-old Ramodre Edwards.
King county prosecutors charged the two sibling suspects with assault, strangulation, great bodily harm and a hate crime. Both pleaded not guilty and were ordered to remain on electronic home monitoring, prosecutors reportedly said.
While great on paper, most of them were pretty young, not even adults yet. Make them do empathy and LGBTQ courses and community service with LGBTQ organizations- lots of it- and let them start with a clean slate. They seriously fucked up, but we should teach them how society is supposed to work.
The 25 year old definitely needs to be charged like the grown ass man he is. And have him stop hanging out with minors. And then also work with LGBTQ organizations/community service.
The problem is, this IS how we are teaching them society is supposed to work. I’m surprised empathy and LGBTQ courses haven’t been outlawed already.
Conservatives have explicitly gone after SEL (social emotional learning) curriculum. It’s one of those toxic keywords like “CRT” that they attack instinctively.
I’ve seen local universities get harassed on Facebook for having queer studies classes.
I do not understand who is downvoting me, unless the magats have infiltrated Lemmy
Lemvotes.org will show you who voted for you.
Usually it’s just one or two grumpy assholes. Not someone who has commented in the thread.
Oh shit. You mean I can find my .world downvote gremlin?!
Yep.
It’s not working for me 😕
Follow the instructions exactly. You have to use the federation link not the usual link to the comment. Click on your comment and choose “show original on shitjustworks” and then use that link. Otherwise you get a 404.
Go hate somewhere else, bigot.
I’m criticizing the current bigoted fascist state of our country, and you call me a bigot? Are you high?
Sorry, that’s not how it reads to me. Maybe not high enough…
Imprison the parents. Charge them with equal crimes.
Prison isn’t a place anybody goes and learns to become less violent. Foster care is an unfortunately similar story.
Then lock them up for life.
That’s just a death sentence with extra steps. You do understand where this sort of scorched earth type retaliation leads right?
I think it leads to more parents being responsible for their kids actions, and people committing hate crimes out of society. Tolerating hate is how you breed fascists.
Parents stop having “exclusive” control of their children at around 6-7yo, arguably younger but… Teenagers acting like this is a result of the society they are raised in.
So your solution is to incarcerated all of society? Go door to door and lock up the entire neighborhood they live in? Arrest all their teachers? Maybe the person who was assaulted is to blame and should be locked up because they caused those kids to get violent in the first place 1.
No, these actions are owned by these kids, stop trying to shift the blame.
I am not promoting tolerance for hate, I’m advocating for implementing real solutions to problems. Prison is for sweeping problems under a rug and letting them faster and grow. Eye for an eye seems really tolerant when you’re starting from a position of “kill them and their entire families for a bruising”.
1 for the record, that is often how the legal system handles these issues and is how American schools are supposed to.
No, you are putting words into my mouth. Please stop. Be an adult.
Parents are responsible for the actions of the child until 18. Full stop. Any crimes the child commits should have mirrored charges against the parent. Full stop.
That is the end of my solution.
However, what I think is most telling about you is how you have just dismissed a hate crime as a “bruising.” I think everyone should take note of your “conservative” mentality. I’m going to tag you as such so that in the future when we interact I know immediately how to treat you
Have a wonderful day
It could be, if we were doing this society shit right. Unfortunately, the hate groups won.