The headlines of late, when not dominated by Libya, Yemen and Syria, or not dominated by Trump, have been of the tabloid/Jerry Springer variety. A rash of violent attacks at fast food restaurants have captured our attention and made us wonder what is going on in the world. Recently, two black women beat up a white woman at a McDonald’s in Maryland. As was reported on my radio show, and as the Baltimore Sun has reported today, the woman who was beaten was actually a man in drag. It doesn’t change the severity of the crime, it just makes the story that much more sensational.
Unfortunately, these attacks have skipped the pond, where a father of four was killed after an altercation at a McDonald’s in Brixton, South London. The man, Raymond Mitchell, had stopped into the restaurant for a hot chocolate. Inside, a fight was happening between two men, and Mitchell tried to break it up. The men took offense to this, with one of the men calling another man to get his gun. When Mitchell tried to leave, the men chased him into an alley. When the gun arrived, they pistol-whipped Mitchell. The two men supposedly laughed when Mitchell begged for his life. They then shot him, and continued laughing.
An interesting side note to the savageness and lack of humanity. The United Kingdom has a ban on handguns. Police do not carry them in their routine business. The ban, as re-clarified in the 1997 Firearms Act (2) only allowed for antique guns, or historic guns whose ammunition is no longer available. Yet, as we plainly see, criminals still have access to guns.
Just a reminder that gun laws don’t necessarily make people safer from sick, homicidal bastards. Gun laws, however, definitively prevent law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves against sick, homicidal bastards. My thoughts are with the family of Raymond Mitchell.
That wasn’t a gun (since they are illegal in Great Britain). That was a kinetic projectile source.
The article you linked clearly says it was a transgender woman, not a man in drag. There’s a pretty substantial difference.
Agreed, its a very big difference.
The woman who was beaten in the McDonald’s in Baltimore was not a man in drag. She was a transsexual, who having had surgery and changed her identity, was legally entitled to present herself as female and use the Ladies’ Room.
This beating was motivated by a hatred of someone different, not race. The failure of people to intervene may have been a function of (black) prejudice. The fact that there is little outcry over this may be the result of the media’s indifference to black on white violence, but that doesn’t mean that the woman who was assaulted suddenly became a “man in drag” in that Ladies’ Room.
Oh, my goodness…
You can put rabbit ears on a dog, or wings on a cat, but neither become rabbits or eagles.
And if we were talking about two different species, you’d still be besides the point you don’t have.
Legally speaking you are 100% *IN*CORRECT. It’s 2011, can’t people like you learn to be tolerant or at least keep your mouth shut?
“Recently, two black women beat up a white woman at a McDonald’s in Maryland. As was reported on my radio show, and as the Baltimore Sun has reported today, the woman who was beaten was actually a man in drag. It doesn’t change the severity of the crime, it just makes the story that much more sensational.”
Factually wrong (“white woman”) should be “someone pretending to be a woman” and morally wrong.
I hope this terrible incident encourages (a certain type of) man to dress in drag and invade women’s restrooms everywhere. Oh, wait. No, I don’t. The (semi-) man should be prosecuted and the ladies praised. Who knows what the man (pretending to be a woman) was really looking for in that restroom.
Yeah, I’ll feed the troll.
“The (semi-) man should be prosecuted and the ladies praised.”
Prosecuted for what? Which felony should the ladies be praised for?
Excuse me a—wipe, the person had SURGERY so no longer has male organs and legally… LEGALLY is a “female”. So, it would be illegal for “her” to go into the MEN’s room. Got it now?
I say this very sincerely…. Listen… I truly hope that someone out there thinks JUST LIKE YOU and views YOUR EXISTENCE as “illegitimate” and does to you exactly what you are wishing upon others. It’s only fair.
Look, I don’t particularly love to see all the weirdnesses of people out there, but “morally” speaking, by wishing harm/death upon them, you lost all moral authority to say *anything*. Sorry to wish that bit of karma upon you, but you really wished it upon yourself. Good luck, and may you turn around your ugly ways and thoughts while perhaps “karma” still has some sympathy for you. Shame on you.
How long before some lefty politician proposes legislation restricting where McD’s can have a restaurant?
Same principle as gun control, after all…
Already happened in LA.
PLEASE GO HOME AND STAY THERE!
I’m soooooooooo sick of losers like you making this about “Leftys” or other political nonsense. People like you who can make any human interest story about “lefty’s” or “libs” need to get a life, and I mean that seriously.
So…when can we expect hate crimes charges on these two homophobes?
For those who can’t think of anything bad to say about this except for bad mouthing the victim, here’s more about one of your heroes:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/mcdonalds-attacker-prior-bust-908732
NICE.
Close all the McGhettos and Walmarts and the hood rats won’t have anywhere to eat or shop.
damn, the libs profess that mcdonalds will kill you but c’mon
Big Mack attack!!