Little by little, the story of the incident at a Baltimore-area McDonalds is creeping into the mainstream news outlets. I spent about an hour last night digging through news sites before I found a blurb of an AP item, buried in the ABC site.
This morning, I found a story on Fox, but their story emphasized that the victim was "a man". I checked back, and they've amended the story to say "transgendered", but read the comments. The attitude of every commenter whose words I could stomach tells the tale.
Now there's speculation that the authorities may add hate-crime charges. I hope so, and I hope they prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
I'm hoping one of the friendlier news outlets pick this up, what with the viral spread of the video, but I don't know that I have the clout to forward something myself.
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