Hate crime in small town mid america... I'm so pissed off I could spit!

[KA9MOT]

DuWayne Brooks is one of my friends. This guy would give a stranger the shirt off his back. DuWayne is black and he is gay.

He wasn't harmed, but he could have been:

http://www.reviewatlas.com/Featured/x1440912245/Monmouth-Police-Department-investigating-hate-crime

[n2ize]

There are a lot of hateful ignorant people out there. It's sad that things like this happen.

[PA5COR]

I'm not surprised to be honest.
With all the hate preaching towards Gay's and other groups, this was about to happen.
Just listen to Fox or any religious group, or even your own politicians.
The USA has become thanks to them a country devided in hate.

I hhope they get the low lif who did it....

[WV6Z]

Terribly sad and so glad he wasn't physically harmed by whatever knucklehead that did this!

[ki4itv]

I'm afraid COR is right.
A wedge is being driven between us all.
With everything that is going on right now, I completely expect it will get far worse before it gets better.

[WV6Z]

Agreed...... it is indeed fukt up, but likely our course for things to come......

[WØTKX]

It is as it always has been... And it will always be that way.

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Unless. Well you know...

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[W2NAP]

this can be 1 of 2 things.

1 someone being a dick or 2 kids being distructive

wait and see who gets caught for this reason I say this kids here have been known to take shit and burn it.

[PA5COR]

It's the divide and conquer rule.
Instead of having all groups united and fighting you, create division between groups between coloured people themselves and Gay's etc etc.
The underlying attempts of the right wing seem to work.
Keeping your own electorate skeered too, so they won't run away and keep you voted in against their own interests, more afraid of the lied to scares as their own good.
It helps to keep your electorate dumb, like homeschooling and restrictions in education does now today, attack the education system.
Be Anti science, helped by the big companies afraid their casino of pollution will be closed by intelligent people that realise we are fastly creating a polluted world where the weather and living conditions fast change.

Use the Bible, but only the parts that you can twist into your policy, forget the loving each other and taking care of each other parts.
Simple actually, I'm just surprised the number of USA peeps suck it up.

[WØTKX]

Correct. And the psychology of divide and conquer is endemic in the human habit of cliques.

The "other" is always the problem.

This kind of thing is disgusting. It's just "business as usual" for reptiles in human skin.

[NQ6U]

It's just "business as usual" for reptiles in human skin.

That's an insult to reptiles everywhere.

[N8YX]

If the person in question was a white homosexual, would this incident be getting the same amount of press?

[ki4itv]

He would appear to be well liked in the community. So probably yes.

[KA9MOT]

If the person in question was a white homosexual, would this incident be getting the same amount of press?

MPD and the Monmouth community's response to this is different than what you are suggesting. White or Black, gay or not, Monmouth has a long history of basing it's response on who a person or his family is. Good Old boy standards. DuWayne is one of those people that everybody likes and so is his family. But yes in this case, I think it really wouldn't matter. The community as a whole is very angry.

I'll tell you how things work in Monmouth (Warren County, IL). In 1966 a young man from Kirkwood, IL beat and raped an old lady and left her for dead. Another woman was found murdered. The Prosecutor at that time is said to have been "friendly" with this young man's mother. Instead of Prosecuting the young man, they decided it was best to run him out of town. The Wiki doesn't tell the true story about what occurred in Monmouth back then, but the old people do and the story was retold in the newspaper several years ago. He was captured, jailed and released for lack of evidence and told to never return.

And now.....The rest of the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck

[KA9MOT]

He would appear to be well liked in the community. So probably yes.

Correct! He is one of the nicest guys you could meet, and that is what defines him. Not that he is black or gay.

[W3WN]

this can be 1 of 2 things.

1 someone being a dick or 2 kids being distructive

wait and see who gets caught for this reason I say this kids here have been known to take shit and burn it.I sure hope it's just immature kids being stupid. Not that that's an excuse for such destructive behavior, but it's relatively better than it being a true hate crime.

Glad your friend is OK. The damage can be repaired or replaced.

And I hope to hell the local yokels catch whomever did this. If it's kids, their parents should pay restitution (on top of fines) and they should do some hard labor type of community service. However, if it turns out to truly be a hate crime, fry the bastids.