Gay Bashing Incident — Did It Really Happen? It Looks Like Political Correctness Wins Out Over Facts
Channel 13’s Rachael Barnhart had a fantastic piece Wednesday on the “Gay Bashing” incident from last summer. You remember that, there were protests, press conferences and outrage in the gay community. Too bad Maggie Brooks wasn’t appealing the judicial decision to re-define marriage last summer – then the liberal professional activist community could have been blamed her for promoting an intolerant attitude and this would have been her fault.
According to Channel 13:
13WHAM News has obtained an internal police department document into last year’s alleged anti-gay hate crime on South Goodman Street. It says there was no hate crime, and raises questions as to whether department leaders misled the public.
The RPD conducted two investigations into what happened on June 1, 2007. One was an internal affairs investigation into complaints of officer misconduct. The other was a criminal investigation that went to the grand jury.
13WHAM News obtained the incident report, which details the criminal investigation. The city did not want us to release this document, saying it was sealed by a judge in the grand jury proceeding.
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The report says one of the alleged victims and their friend were actually the aggressors in two separate fist fights that started when someone yelled an anti-gay slur from a parked taxi cab.
Investigators say one alleged victim told them he “did not believe the other group knew that anyone in his group was gay.”
Investigators say another alleged victim told them she “never heard any gay comments before, during, or after the fight.”
A friend of the alleged victims told police he “was pretty much in shock that the fight was turned into a hate crime.”
Investigators identified four people who fought with the alleged victims, but at no point did they consider those four people suspects.
Yet two weeks after the incident, Chief Moore announced the department was looking for four suspects, two men and two women.
Wow! This is a blockbuster and only one media outlet has done a story. Take a look at what the Mayor’s chief flak, Gary Walker had to say:
City spokesman Gary Walker said there would be criminal and internal investigations into who leaked the document to 13WHAM News.
“The document is misleading,” Walker said. “It’s not the full story.”
What? After the Public Defender selection issue, how can the City shut out “the community.” We have a right to know what is going on. The process works best when it is exposed to the light of public scrutiny. The Mayor allows political correctness to effect criminal investigations. All of this on “Sunshine Week” and the Democrat and Chronicle doesn’t even mention it. They don’t have a problem using leaked information — they do it all the time.
Where is the outrage? Where are the protests? Let the police officers speak! Let our people in ! We shall over come! Sorry, I got caught up in the moment.
Seriously, this is big. It shows how the liberal media, primarily the D&C, really fails to do its job. It also points out the need for outlets like Monroerising.com. The public has a right to know what’s going on. It is starting to look like you need to be a professional protester to get the media’s attention. We are at a disadvantage here. The conservative community doesn’t have a professional protest network (most of them have jobs and families to take care of).
Mayor Duffy’s breach of the public trust is bigger than almost any local issue in the last year and yet most people in Rochester will never know the facts of this case. Think about the implications of what has happened. Members of a protected class, in this case gays, uses their protected class status to incite the community in a case where it appears they were the ones acting inappropriately.
Maybe it’s me, but doesn’t that sound a lot like what happened at that first meeting of the Public Safety Committee when Assemblyman David Gantt refused the lawful orders of a police officers and his buddies actually pushed that poor woman around?
This is really getting out of hand.
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