Hasidic Jews beat a gay man — and cops almost let them go

[Cocaine Heart 4,768]

The New York City Police Department is coming under scrutiny for quickly shutting down an investigation into the beating of a gay art student at the hands of a group of Hasidic Jews shouting anti-gay slurs.

According to the New York Daily News, 25-year-old Taj Patterson was assaulted in December of 2013 by a group of five men, leaving him with a broken eye socket and a torn retina blinding him in one eye.

According to police, the men are part of the Williamsburg Safety Patrol, a Hasidic volunteer neighborhood watch group whose members carry walkie talkies and sometimes cruise the neighborhood in cars outfitted to look like law enforcement vehicles. Police state that the men are supposed to notify them if they see a crime and occasionally make a citizen’s arrest. How ever the group — also known as the Shomrin — has also been accused of vigilantism, focusing their attacks on black and Latino people.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/insult-spewing-hasidic-jews-beat-a-gay-man-within-an-inch-of-his-life-and-cops-almost-let-them-go/

http://gothamist.com/2016/05/06/taj_patterson_coverup.php

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

 I always wonder whether those homophobes are secretly closet gays  

[littlepotter 76,610]

In New York

What else is wrong with the world

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Derpplause said:

 I always wonder whether those homophobes are secretly closet gays  

“In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are turning this internal conflict outward,” added co-author Richard Ryan, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester who was involved in the study, in which about 650 university students participated.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/07/15/homophobes-likely-to-be-closet-gays-study-finds/ 

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This is really sad, but I am glad it's getting out there. They need to be called out and action must be taken.

[Duella Dvil 11,552]

People wonder why I look at the world with such a cynical lens.

Because people are the creators of evil.

Without us.

There is no ill will.

Hardly greed. Only ritualistic ego, the Omega, the alpha, the beta. The natural order is so beyond ****ED because we designed all of these needless classifications.

So SUCKMYUNCUTDICK AND SWALLOW HUMANITY I HATE YOU

[Joemayzin 4,032]

4 minutes ago, Derpplause said:

 I always wonder whether those homophobes are secretly closet gays  

most of the time thats the case!!

1 minute ago, littlepotter said:

In New York

What else is wrong with the world

it's so weird that i hear these things happening in New York cause i go to the City (which is very often) and i never see any hate towards gay men especially in the areas i hang out in which is very gay dominated!

[brizoda 4,176]

homophobia is so ingrained in almost every religion

[monstereo 1,232]

It doesn't say that he was beaten for being gay though.

If they're a crime-stop group, it makes me think the guy could've been caught committing a crime or something. Still doesn't excuse what they did though.

[lego 44,165]

20 minutes ago, Cocaine Heart said:

the group — also known as the Shomrin — has also been accused of vigilantism, focusing their attacks on black and Latino people.

 

 

"Five men accused him of damaging cars in the area and surrounded him, then were joined by another 10 people, and when Patterson tried to flee, they held him down and kicked and punched him, prosecutors allege.

The pummeling only ceased when a bus driver pulled over and started to take photos.

"That wasn’t a misdemeanor," the driver told the News.

He continued:

"They were actually stomping and kicking him. One of his eyes was closed and so swollen. He was saying, 'My eye. I can’t see.'

 

The revelation about the apparent mishandling of the investigation comes as high-ranking officers elsewhere in the NYPD are facing federal scrutiny for, among other things,allegedly taking bribes from a leader of the Williamsburg group's Borough Park counterpart, the Boro Park Shomrim, to grant gun permits to people who would otherwise have been denied them. 

 

 

Police corruption again. This is outrageous. 

 

 

5 minutes ago, monstereo said:

It doesn't say that he was beaten for being gay though.

We don't know the whole story. The guy beaten was described as "highly intoxicated, uncooperative and incoherent," by police

 

If they're a crime-stop group, it makes me think the guy was committing a crime

 

Not you justifying a clear hate crime.

Wtf is "crime-stop" group? 

 

Did you miss this part

 

"the group — also known as the Shomrin — has also been accused of vigilantism, focusing their attacks on black and Latino people."

[En_Sabah_Nur 9,366]

Hasidic Jews having been committing hate crimes against LGBT people around the world for a long time now...  Especially in NYC & Isreal.  I mean if you have kept up with LGBT news around the world for the past decade, then you would know this.  I try to avoid them if I see them coming quite honestly...  

 

[Melech 9,900]

Funny this was made after a thread that was about an anti-Semitic attack.

 

anyway I don't like hadisics. Not as bad as Islamists but still suck