#chicago kidnapping

[luvsjimmyreed]

I, uh... I'm feeling very upset, right now - because of something that happened in Chicago. I'm not gonna show any part of the video, because the content is very disturbing. Before I go into detail over what happened, I must warn people that this incident involves kidnapping and... and torture. *blinks back tears* Okay, here is what happened. Four young black adults kidnapped a mentally disabled young white man and... and tortured him for hours. They were shouting things like "eff Donald Trump"... despite there not being any evidence whatsoever that the young disabled white man supported Mr. Trump... and "eff white people". And the actual f-word was actually uttered. No, uh... I don't understand how anyone can defend this sort of atrocity. I feel so bad for the young disabled white man. I would like to visit him and give him a great big hug, and show him that not all of us black folks are as monstrous as the ones who gleefully hurt him for hours. The only thing stopping me is that I'm afraid that I might end up traumatizing him, as I share a race with his four tormentors. This deplorable event, combined with the fact that he is mental disabled, I would not blame him one bit for being traumatized by black people - and this is what really upsets me. *beginning to cry* What were you thinking, people? What were you thinking? You may have succeeded in making a disabled white person terrified of black people for life! Is this what you wanted? Really, is this what you wanted? *later* This is how much this particular event upsets me on an emotional level. I am here to thoroughly condemn, denounce, and repudiate what these four young black folks have done. Maybe I'll give the victim's mother a call. I just want so badly to give him a hug.

Jimmy Reed, On Chicago Kidnapping Case

[gustophersola]

I'm white so I'm not gonna speak above people of color on this issue, but in case any of my followers didn't know, recently four black men and women kidnapped a disabled white man and tortured him and people are angry. Not because he was disabled. Because they were saying things like "fuck white people" and "fuck trump". Now these four people were immediately sent to prison. Justice worked swiftly and they are where they belong. But that's the thing. Justice always works swiftly anytime a black person commits a crime. Yet how many police killed unarmed people of color without being sentenced at all? What about Brock Turner, a white man who raped a woman and instead of serving 10-20 years was allowed to serve only a few months because people felt sorry for him? Or how we elected a white president this year who has openly said racist and sexist things and has been accused of raping many women, even his own wife? Or all the black youth in prison for 10 years or more for weed? All the injustice people of color have experienced? Of course they were quickly sent to prison. What they did was a terrible hate crime against the disabled. People aren't mad that they were sent to prison so quick. They're mad because many white people still have yet to be punished for their crimes while unarmed and often peaceful people of color are often harassed, charged unfairly, and murdered for crimes without a fair trial. What this will now do is allow people to freely spread their racism, especially with Trump in office. Already Black Lives Matter is being blamed, although the four people have not said anything about BLM and BLM does not support anything like this. What happened is horrifying and the four criminals are getting exactly what they deserve. How long until white criminals get what they deserve?

[anamericangirl]

If anything is a hate crime, this is

I gotta say something about the Chicago kidnapping. It’s been bothering me to no end since I learned about it, as is the case with everyone else, as it should be. 

I haven’t seen the video, I can’t bring myself to watch it, but I know what happened in it and I’m sick just thinking about it. 

Brittany Herring and her friends, whose names I believe are Tanishia Covington, Tesfaye Cooper and Jordan Hill, are scumbags. They are a disgrace to the human race. The crime they committed is so horrendously awful and they should have to pay for it for the rest of their miserable lives. They can rot in jail for all I care. 

I cannot express what I feel for the victim and I have been so worried about him all day, although I believe he is in stable condition, last I heard. And of course it’s awful that they chose to victimize someone with special needs, but honestly, at this point, the crime is so terrible and it’s one of the most horrible things I’ve ever encountered whether the victim has special needs or not. 

But how dare the Chicago police say they are not sure that this can be investigated as a hate crime?? They are saying this is “kids being stupid” but it so is not! This is legal adults kidnapping and torturing and taunting another human being because he was white. What more do you need to classify it as a hate crime????

If this is not going to be classified as a hate crime because the victim was white, then I want hate crime laws abolished. Crimes should be defined by the actions of the perpetrators, not the race of the victim. And that is what is happening here. The Chicago police are implying that if you get kidnapped and tortured because you’re white, that’s not a hate crime. Because you’re white. A black person can do whatever they want to you for whatever reason and not be charged with a hate crime because of the color of their skin.

What if we change murder to mean the premeditated killing of a white person by a black person? That would mean even if a white person intentionally killed a black person they couldn’t be charged with murder because they were white. Any law that grants special privileges to certain races should be abolished and thrown in the garbage where it belongs. 

They said “fuck white people” they said “fuck donald trump”. It doesn’t matter how sincere they were, that makes it a hate crime! But no, the police want to say there is not enough evidence to classify it as a hate crime and they aren’t sure he was targeted because he was white, it may have been because he has special needs. But that doesn’t make it any better! This crime was clearly racially motivated and it should be treated as a hate crime whether they were just doing it for attention or not. This crime was motivated by hate, and it was motivated by race. That is not up for debate at this point. 

Anyone who says this isn’t a hate crime, or tries to make it less of an issue by saying “it’s just kids being stupid” for the sake of their narrative is no better than the pieces of trash who committed the crime. That goes for the Chicago police, CNN and anyone else who tries to explain away the obvious because they want to protect their dumb political narrative. 

[birepublicangirl-blog]

News coverage of the kidnapping in Chicago has reached my local news

Still checking to see if any big news stations have covered it. So far, only Fox News has posted anything.

[imthedoctordonna]

Chicago Kidnapping

I can’t explain what kind of nightmare this is to me. To know that a disabled student was lured, kidnapped and beaten by his peers hits closer to home than I’d like.

My son, while cognitively on par with his peers (and even a little above), is non verbal. His speech is unintelligible, and he is working very hard to overcome his brain malformation and gain his own voice, but the fact remains that if something were to happen to him and he didn’t have his AAC, he couldn’t tell a soul. What if it were my child? Because victim’s that can’t tell their story are the best kind, right? His delayed motor development would make it more difficult for him to fight back with enough force to get away.

When my son goes on field trips or we go into crowded public areas, he wears an emergency bracelet that explains “learning to speak, able to understand” I have taught him that he needs to tell someone if his classmates or ‘friends’ are mistreating him.

The abuse of special needs individuals is real, I see it in my client’s files everyday. These four need to answer for their crimes against this individual who likely did not understand he needed to defend himself until it was too late.

[bitchocd]

so where are those “split is an ablelist, horrible movie who demonize people with mental illnesses!!!!” people now when, in real life, in fucking reality, a mentally disabled person is kidnapped, forced to drink water from the toilet, beaten and laughed at? i guess tumblr does care far more about fiction than reality. i mean i already knew that but fucking god

[blithe-abomination]

BLM Had Nothing to Do With It

Oh right, BLM, the hate mob thats infamous for calling for dead cops and white people, the group run by leaders who call white people "melanin deficient cave people," the group that has normalized the concept that no matter what a black person does they cannot be racist to a white person, the group thats been excusing twitter hashtags like "kill all white people,"

Yeah they had NOTHING to do with the Chicago kidnapping.  Nothing at all.

No ones buying that.  Screw BLM and screw anyone who apologizes for the actions of those kids.  I haven't seen many who do, but when I do find them just guess what group they have ties with.  

[ive-been-painting-the-roses-red]

'The Chicago kidnapping has nothing to do with blm'

You mean the organization that

Chants for dead white cops?

That sought out whites to beat in riots? That celebrate the death of every white cop? YOU'RE GONNA SAY THAT BLM ISN'T THE FUEL OF THIS? You're crazier than you think Trump is.