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Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 02:15 PM Jan 2017

Where is the Outrage?

For the African American Group

Read more: http://urbanintellectuals.com/2017/01/10/media-black-woman-tortured-raped-week-six-whites-begs-hate-crime-charges/#ixzz4VO6cqnO8
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This crime is disgusting in every single way. A young woman was lured to a trailer, held captive, raped, beaten and tortured, forced to eat rat and human faeces, subjected to racist slurs….. yet, to this moment, no hate crime has been filed! AND where the hell are the media? Why is no one in the mainstream taking up her cause?

Alternativemediasyndicate.com posted:

Megan Williams thought she was going to a party.

That’s why she tagged along with a woman she hardly knew, up a remote southern West Virginia hollow to a run-down trailer surrounded by beer cans and broken-down furniture.

“But there wasn’t no party,” Williams said. “I realized I’d made a bad mistake.”

For at least a week, authorities say, the 20-year-old black woman was kept captive in a shed, tortured, beaten, forced to eat rat, dog and human feces, and raped by six white men and women who taunted her with racial slurs.

“They just kept saying ‘This is what we do to niggers down here,’” Williams told The Associated Press in one of her most extensive interviews since the shocking case made national headlines last month.
Seated in a rocking chair in her mother’s living room, about 50 miles from that shed, the slight woman with cocoa-colored skin says she was hopelessly outnumbered by people who just wanted to hurt a black person.

More at the link.....

http://urbanintellectuals.com/2017/01/10/media-black-woman-tortured-raped-week-six-whites-begs-hate-crime-charges/


So where is the outrage? Can we get this off to the greatest page please?

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Where is the Outrage? (Original Post) Coolest Ranger Jan 2017 OP
Jesus Christ help us all lambchopp59 Jan 2017 #1
How can this be anything brer cat Jan 2017 #2
That is sick! eom fleur-de-lisa Jan 2017 #3
This happened in 2007 il_lilac Jan 2017 #4
I don't care what year Coolest Ranger Jan 2017 #8
From the comments I followed this ABC link as well. sheshe2 Jan 2017 #5
2007 and it looks faked nytimes123 Jan 2017 #6
right so you going to believe that and not this Coolest Ranger Jan 2017 #7

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
1. Jesus Christ help us all
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 02:17 PM
Jan 2017

And then any of these Trumpeteers wonder why we call them deplorables. God dammit.

brer cat

(26,479 posts)
2. How can this be anything
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 02:38 PM
Jan 2017

but a hate crime? You could write the definition based off this horrific crime. Can they only see the "hate" when the victim is white?

il_lilac

(895 posts)
4. This happened in 2007
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 02:49 PM
Jan 2017

She has since recanted but prosecutors don't believe her recant. Horrible story

sheshe2

(88,100 posts)
5. From the comments I followed this ABC link as well.
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 02:58 PM
Jan 2017
None of the accused ever denied responsibility, maintained their innocence or attempted to appeal their convictions, he said.

"To a person, everyone admitted it," he said.


Each of the seven suspects were put in separate rooms by police and questioned independently.

"They were all interviewed separately. None knew what any of the others were saying. And all their evidence went along with exactly with what the others were saying," said Logan County Sheriff Eddie Hunter.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/torture-victim-recants-story-authorities-believe-true/story?id=8894587

JHC! Of course it is a hate crime. They ALL CONFESSED and the victim is not believable?????
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