Jezebel: attack

Gay Hate

Maria — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:45:00 EST

A woman in California was gang raped by four men on December 13th, allegedly for being a presumed lesbian. Recently, a Latino man thought to be gay died in Brooklyn after a brutal attack.

Gay rights advocates note that gay hate crimes have been increasing recently. [MSNBC, NYPost]

Conde Nasty

Maria — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:20:00 EST

A tough 26-year-old named Marie Conde scared off three muggers in New York on Sunday morning after they punched her and ran off with her purse. Marie chased the teenagers onto a station platform and grabbed one of them... leading the other muggers to plead with her to let him go. In the end, two of the kids were arrested and the woman got her purse back, which had her green card and other important papers. The NYPD doesn't condone fighting assailants, but they do admit that Marie is "one bad-ass mama." [NY Post]

Whack-Job

Maria — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:20:00 EDT

Ashley Todd, the McCain volunteer who falsely claimed that an African-American Obama supporter assaulted her, has a history of lying. Todd, a native Texan, originally worked for the Ron Paul campaign during the primaries, but was fired after she posed as a Huckabee worker and called his supporters asking for "their strategies." Todd also claimed her car had been attacked because of her Ron Paul bumper stickers and she told her hometown's GOP chairman that she was being treated for cancer and had lost all her hair. [NY Post]

Killer Heels

Maria — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:20:00 EDT

This morning, two teenage sisters in Florida were badly beaten with high heel shoes by approximately 30 members of a girl gang known as "The Rock Star Girls" and "The Cheerleaders" in the parking lot of a nightspot known as "Club Crunk." The gang members approached the two victims as they were waiting in the parking lot after being denied entry into the club when three of the members took off their shoes and began beating them. One of the members beat the girls with an eight-inch brown stiletto heel (ugly shoes for an ugly personalities!) while saying "B, I am gonna kill you" and another stating "B, I fight to kill." The victims were left with deep cuts on their face that required hospital treatment. The police were alerted when the victim's mother called 911 and told police "Look at my babies, they were beaten at a club by, like, 30 hoes." Ouch! Let this be a lesson: Beware of women with horrible taste in footwear. [The Smoking Gun]