Drunken Bigot Tries to Commit Anti-Muslim Hate Crime, Gets His Ass Kicked Instead

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



Posted by Joshua Holland at 9:16 am
September 2, 2010

Drunken Bigot Tries to Commit Anti-Muslim Hate Crime, Gets His Ass Kicked Instead
Posted by Joshua Holland on @ 9:16 am


The details of this one are kind of sketchy, but TPM describes the story as one of a series of cases where “people who seemed to want to commit a hate crime … were either too drunk, too stupid or too disorganized to pull it off or even give a really clear idea of what they were trying to do.” Apparently, 31 year-old Kevin Morris walked into a hookah bar under the impression that such venues are populated by the Muslim devout rather than smirking hipsters. It didn’t go well.

After entering the Lounge, in the words of Amanda Pinto of the New Haven Register, Morris began “shout profanities and racial epithets at a group of black and Arabic people.” Pinto doesn’t say what the epithets were. And it’s not entirely clear what the clientele is or what kind of place the Fire & Ice Hookah Lounge is. But one thing’s clear: it ain’t a mosque.

In any case, Morris comes into the Lounge shouting his epithets, apparently really drunk and at some point tries to grab the bartender by the throat or strangle him or something. But things did not go well for Morris. The folks in the establishment were not interested in that kind of an evening and proceeded to administer Morris a serious beating. As Pinto put it, Morris “was punched in the face by at least one of the people he was shouting at” and when police finally arrived he was “bleeding profusely from the face.”

Morris was treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital and charged with 3rd degree intimidation due to bias and 2nd degree breach of peace. He is still in police custody.

I don’t celebrate or endorse violence, but I’m going to make an exception here.


http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/02/drunken-bigot-tries-to-commit-anti-muslim-hate-crime-gets-his-ass-kicked-instead/

[Ozymanithrax]

1. When karma works, it works... n/t

[Better Believe It]

2. He was getting an education! I hoped he learned his lesson.

[Dappleganger]

3. Some beat-downs are deserved.

[HughBeaumont]

4. I don't really consider this a "beatdown" . . . it's more like "self defense".

Mr. TeaBagger was the one being aggressive and . . . well . . . a TeaBagger. That's coming to a defense. Bravo on them.

Usually, the opposite happens. And police, of course, make no arrests at all, despite pictorial proof.

[socialist_n_TN]

5. I have no problem with self defense or

defense of others.

[KJX1KQ]

6. "DRUNKEN BIGOT"

As an aside to all of you out there who are so quick to apply labels and are so quick to judge when you know so little.....

Kevin Morris is a decorated US Marine who defended you and your country. He was a warm, caring and loving person who had many close friends of all races and creeds. While on active duty, he sustained an injury that resulted in treatment that included massive doses of medicines. These medicines caused a chemical inbalance in his brain that resulted in the development of schizophrenia. At the age of 24, he became a schizophrenic. Like many mentally ill people, he does not take his meds regularly and tends to self-medicate with alcohol. This exacerbates the mental illness and bad things happen. Were his actions horribly wrong??? Absolutely!!! Is he a bigot?? No Is he violent? No He is a sick person who hopefully will get the treatment he needs. So, to all of you know-it-all and opinionated commenters......you really don't know it all.

[Ron Green]

7. He didn't defend me, Friend.

He may have gone to work for Cheney-Bush, and perhaps he suffered (as I did; I'm a disabled vet), but as far as I'm concerned he didn't defend me OR my country.

[BeHereNow]

9. Don't hold your breath on "treament" for Kevin. This governnment doesn't give a damn.

He, like the rest of us, is victim of the BFEE. (Bush Family EVIL EMPIRE)
So much for "Support the Troops!" Eh?
The people in this country don't give a DAMN about the troops
beyond sporting yellow magnets on their gas guzzling SUVs-
and they completely MISS the connection between their
consumer mentality and the illegal wars and occupations in the ME.

Welcome to DU and thanks for the back ground on Kevin.
As a person who has a family member with mental health issues,
and the hard to pay for medications issue- my heart goes out to Kevin,
and you.

BHN

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. hee. Not violence, self defense. He grabbed first