Bully's Brutal Assault of Gay Ohio High School Student Caught on Camera: VIDEO

[Wolfman1982]

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/10/ohiobully.html#.Tql3YczBGmE.reddit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPyyqISm8eg

A student at Union-Scioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio was brutally beaten this week by another student for being gay. Class members watched as the bully waited for the student to arrive in the classroom, grabbed him, pushed him to the ground and punched him in the face several times.
Another student recorded the assault on his cell phone. The video was posted to Facebook.

The bully had harassed the gay student (who has not been identified) on Facebook a few days earlier, writing, as the comment on a photo of him: "You fag. Check out the definition of a fag."

According to an email received by Towleroad from Equality Ohio, "The victim has suffered a possible concussion and dental damage. The attacker was suspended from school for just three days. "

Watch the video and hear the gay student's mother narrate the events, AFTER THE JUMP...

Equality Ohio adds:

"Union-Scioto has no policy in place that specifically protects students from being bullied or attacked based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The Union-Scioto Local School District does have a policy that prohibits harassment based on sex, race, color, national origin, religion, disability, among oth"ers, but it does not specifically protect against harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Equality Ohio Executive Director, Ed Mullen, explains that the incident serves as a reminder that Ohio’s anti-bullying law must be strengthened and specific protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth be included. Mullen says: “All students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, have the right to a safe school and education. Students should not fear verbal harassment, cyber-bullying, or physical assault in our public schools.”

An anti-bullying bill is pending in Ohio's legislature. Ohio House Bill 208 would add sexual orientation, gender identity, and other enumerated protections to Ohio’s anti-bullying law without changing the general prohibition against any bullying or harassment. Proponents of the bill are seeking testimony in the House Education Committee, according to Equality Ohio, but the bill has not been a priority of the committee.

Watch this disturbing event, AFTER THE JUMP...

 

[Wolfman1982]

Apparently it's not felony assault if the target is a gay kid. This must get fixed.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/ar...to-get-expelled-from-union-scioto-high-school

Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM

We don't know. We do know what will get you a three-day suspension from the Chillicothe, Ohio, high school: beating the shit out of an openly gay kid. Watch this video:

Equality Ohio:

This week, a 15-year-old teenager was severely beaten in his high school class room for being gay. The attack occurred at Union-Scioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, and was caught on camera as fellow class members watched one teen wait for the victim to enter the room, push him to the ground and continually punch him in the face. Two days prior to the attack, the perpetrator harassed the victim via Facebook regarding his sexual orientation. The victim has suffered a possible concussion and dental damage. The attacker was suspended from school for just three days. Union-Scioto has no policy in place that specifically protects students from being bullied or attacked based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The Union-Scioto Local School District does have a policy that prohibits harassment based on sex, race, color, national origin, religion, disability, among others, but it does not specifically protect against harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

A policy forbidding harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity won't prevent all incidents of bullying or assault. But it would send a message. You know what else sends a message? Arresting someone for felony assault, indicting someone for felony assault, and, if someone is found guilty of felony assault, sending someone to prison for felony assault. If the bully in who assaulted the gay kid in this video had done the exact same thing to a little old lady in shopping mall or a stranger at a bus stop he would've been arrested and charged with a crime. If he had done the same thing to a teacher at Union-Scioto High School he would've been arrested and expelled. Watch the video again. That kid who beat up a fellow student was suspended for three days and he wasn't arrested? The administrators at Union-Scioto High School and the police in Chillicothe are sending a message to every bully and bigot in town: felony assault isn't felony assault if you're assaulting the gay kid.

"He kept hitting, and nobody did anything."

Do something.

Union-Scioto Local Schools District Administration:
Superintendent: Dwight Garrett dgarrett@mail.gsn.k12.oh.us
High School Principal: James Osborne josborne@mail.gsn.k12.oh.us
Unioto High School Asst. Principal: Wilma Gillott wgillott@mail.gsn.k12.oh.us

If they shut off their email:

Union-Scioto
Administration Office
1565 Egypt Pike
Chillicothe, Ohio 45601
740-773-4102

Unioto High School
14193 Pleasant Valley Road
Chillicothe, Ohio 45601
740-773-4105

And contact the police:

Chief Roger Moore
28 North Paint Street
Chillicothe, Ohio 45601
Phone: (740) 773-1191

The Chillicothe Police Department would like to remind citizens that they can email anonymous complaints of drug activity, or any illegal activity, to drugtip@chillicothepolice.com. These complaints will be reviewed and investigated by detectives of the Chillicothe Police Department.

UPDATE: Says Massgroovy:

SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT IS THE AGENCY HANDLING THIS CASE. CONTACT THEM @ (740) 773-1185. PROSECUTORS OFFICE (740) 702-3115

 

[none2_none2]

Well it is good to see that you are still posting news. Personally, I like it.

I'm sad to see that we have silly sex stories about whether a hubby would blow a man if the wifey asked them. Is that news or some serious issue?

As for bullying, when it turns violent, there should be reprocussions.

As for things like name calling, we all have to develop a backbone. We all dealt with it to certain degrees growing up. That is the part that society puts on those that are different. The funny thing is that over the last 20 years as I have met people from those days, some totally didn't remember how mean they were to me, some apologized. Others I could sense that they hadn't changed. They simply were better at hiding it in polite society. It wasn't worth it to me to hold a grudge. Except for some roughing up, there was nothing ever what one could call violent. In some ways I think I appreciate the backbone. As a result, I can only be pushed so far; then I'll push back. If I would have had total protection against any name calling growing up, then there would simply have been a lot of repressed bigots waiting for their time to attack when there was no protection, and I would have been as prepared for it as a creme puff or marshmellow is prepared to be dipped in hot chocolate.

Just remember that one of the MOST tolerant societies for gays was Germany in the 1920's. My fear is that if gay youth don't learn to handle some of the less violent type of bullying, they won't be prepared for the next swing of the pendulum. An analogy would be to think of intolerance as germs. If you try to keep children from being exposed to any germs, then when germs do get through later in life, they have devistating consquences to older individual who never had any exposure. Such was the case with polio.

 

[Wolfman1982]

none2_none2: well I am still around, and posting news when I like it. I have just decided to stay out of the discussion afterwards, cause that is probably best for my health in the long run. But that does not mean, that I do not discuss such issues other places, which I actually do. And oh yeah, I think me posting real news stories, that is LGBT related is better, than just the thread you are thinking off. Hell I have not even looked into thread, because I think it is ludicrous to put it here. But there are some older threads, that I have no issues with being in this section, but a "News and Issues" section should/ought to be about LGBT related issues and situations that happens in the real world. Than some of the bollocks I have read from threads.

Well it is good to see that you are still posting news. Personally, I like it.

I'm sad to see that we have silly sex stories about whether a hubby would blow a man if the wifey asked them. Is that news or some serious issue?

As for bullying, when it turns violent, there should be reprocussions.

Indeed there should.

Just remember that one of the MOST tolerant societies for gays was Germany in the 1920's..

I actually had no idea, about that. But I know Japan has had quite a relaxed attitude towards gay people, hell even some of the Shoguns, had male partners too. And there were female samurai's too. And back then, geisha's were more than just high paid prostitutes, as they are now in comparison.

 

[Fondelum]

It's deplorable, the physical/mental bullying that goes on in today's schools. In NJ they are taking the issue quite seriously after the case of Tyler Clemente who committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge after being subject to mental bullying at Rutgers University. I've not followed the case and am only going by what I see in the headlines but it's a start.

Personally I wasn't very popular in school and got beaten up a time or two. Fighting back was pointless. I would't have gotten any support at home if I fought back and didn't want to ruin a suspension free record. Also suffer the wrath of the large family whose son punched me in the side of the head. Ironically another member of that same family had son that stuck up for me on many occasions I'm glad I didn't have ready access to firearms

Thanks for posting