Thursday, March 19, 2009

WCPO Coverage of Hate Crime

This is a continuation of the ongoing coverage of the UC Hate Crime that, apparently, was going to be swept quietly under the rug in the city. Let's keep this going shall we. (Protest Post 3/18, Follow Up 3/17, Original Post 3/16). And we will have a twitter feed of the event as it happens including TwitPics as we can get them going from various people -- follow me on Twitter for tomorrow's protest live coverage.

Finally! A news source has picked up the story, here on WCPO:
Police at the University of Cincinnati believe a recent attack near the campus happened because one of the victims is gay.

Police say two people were attacked on March 6 along Clifton Avenue.

Police say one of the victims knew one of the suspects, who attacked both of them when he found out one of them is gay.

Police are still looking for three suspects.
...which is strange, because we don't know who these three suspects are. Anyways, here's the (brief) news story on video, I hope it works this time :-):

As yet, no other news.

My bad, this is the text from WLWT that appeared on the news on 3/11 on the 5:30pm news that never had any online follow up:

A 19 YEAR OLD MAN...
IN COURT TODAY...
ACCUSED OF ATTACKING A MAN BECAUSE HE'S GAY.
ETHAN
KIRKWOOD...
IS FACING TWO COUNTS OF FELONY ASSAULT FOR THE BEATING THAT HAPPENED ON CLIFTON AVENUE LAST WEEK.
POLICE SAY
KIRKWOOD ALSO BEAT UP A FRIEND OF THE VICTIM WHO TRIED TO DEFEND HIM.
So two news stories so far? I'll be curious to see if we hear anything today about the protests.

1 comment:

Jere Keys said...

Okay, so how do we follow up and find out if Kirkwood is one of the attackers or not?