Stand Your Ground
20th May 2011, 15:19
Two teenagers charged with brutally attacking a transgendered woman in a Baltimore-area McDonald’s restaurant on April 18 – a beating captured in a cell-phone video that went viral on the Internet – will be prosecuted as hate crime perpetrators.
Teonna Brown, 18, was indicted Monday (May 16) on state assault and hate crime charges in the beating of Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, at the Rosedale, Md., restaurant, according to the Baltimore Sun (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-mcondalds-hate-crime-20110516,0,4535491.story). A hate crime charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, which could be added to the 25-year maximum for the assault charge. Brown is also charged with assaulting a customer and a McDonald’s employee who tried to intervene. A 14-year-old girl, whose identity has not been released because of her age, is facing the same charges in juvenile court.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/05/18/hate-crime-charges-filed-in-attack-on-transgendered-woman-at-mcdonalds/?ondntsrc=MBQ110570HTW&newsletter=HW051911
Teonna Brown, 18, was indicted Monday (May 16) on state assault and hate crime charges in the beating of Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, at the Rosedale, Md., restaurant, according to the Baltimore Sun (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-mcondalds-hate-crime-20110516,0,4535491.story). A hate crime charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, which could be added to the 25-year maximum for the assault charge. Brown is also charged with assaulting a customer and a McDonald’s employee who tried to intervene. A 14-year-old girl, whose identity has not been released because of her age, is facing the same charges in juvenile court.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/05/18/hate-crime-charges-filed-in-attack-on-transgendered-woman-at-mcdonalds/?ondntsrc=MBQ110570HTW&newsletter=HW051911