Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Conservative-Bashing (literally!) in San Francisco

Now, anytime a person who is of the homosexual persuasion is assaulted in San Francisco, it is automatically labeled a "hate crime" that must be rigourously denounced by all civic and political leaders, and immediately followed by a thousands-strong anti-gay-bashing march.
However, if you beat the sh*t out of some folks of the conservative bent, well, apparently, the police will not even investigate the crime. From the website of KGO-TV:

Members of a renowned choral group from Yale University were attacked outside a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco, sending several of them to the hospital. Now the police department is coming under fire for its handling of the case....Yale sends its popular singing group, The Baker's Dozen, on a holiday concert tour. And San Francisco sends the young men away bloody, bruised, and several of them seriously injured.

The trouble started at midnight after The Baker's Dozen sang "The Star Spangled Banner." Witnesses say a few local young men didn't appreciate the attention the Yale students were getting, made fun of their conservative dress and began taunting them and making threats.

As The Baker's Dozen left the house, they were ambushed -- five, six, seven assailants attacking each member.
Their injuries ranged from scrapes, black eyes, a badly sprained ankle to concussions.
The most seriously injured was Sharyar Aziz. He was rushed back to New York for reconstructive surgery -- his jaws wired shut for eight weeks. He'll forever have two titanium plates in his face.


....when police arrived, they detained four of the attackers who were identified by members of The Baker's Dozen, but officers did not make an arrest. And a full week later, they still haven't made an arrest....Police investigators didn't even bother to photograph the injuries to The Baker's Dozen. The couple who held the party that night took pictures.

Mayor Gavin Newsom wouldn't address it when we caught up with him late this afternoon...

Where's your marches and pledges to stop the violence now, Mayor Newsom? Or is it OK to assault conservatives because they dare hold politcal views that differ from those of mainstream San Fransicko?

Kudos to KGO for staying on the case; once the police get off their duffs and make some arrests, I'll be curious to hear what explanations are given to explain away this conservative-bashing. Maybe they provoked it, you know, for being...different in liberal San Francisco, where all views are acceptable, as long as they are all the same.

Nice city you hail from, Speaker Pelosi....

1 comment:

Erica said...

Absolutelyunfrickinbelievable.

A$$holes get away with whatever they want nowadays.

I blame Nancy Pelosi.