NC Bigot Assaults Gay Bar Owner Over SCOTUS Ruling, Won’t Be Charged With A Hate Crime

[KamaAina]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/29/nc-bigot-assaults-gay-bar-owner-over-scotus-ruling-wont-be-charged-with-a-hate-crime/

A North Carolina man walked into a well-known LGBT bar with the specific purpose of starting a fight. After assaulting the bar’s owner more than a dozen times, the man was arrested and charged with multiple counts of simple assault. A few hours later he was out on a $3000 bond.

Lucas Dylan Wilhelmson, 21, epitomized the meaning of a hate crime. He was upset about the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, being the bigot that he is, and decided to lash out. He went to a place where he knew this minority demographic could be found and with malice forethought attacked a man for no reason other than his sexual orientation.

North Carolina has no protection for LGBT’s under anti-discrimination laws.

Acquaintances of Wilhelmson say they don’t believe he was acting in a hateful way and that the fight was because he was drunk and unruly. Police had a different take. According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police spokesman Rob Tufano, Wilhelmson came drunk, looking for trouble, and immediately began “calling out people using derogatory terms.” Tufano told the Charlotte Observer:

[randys1]

1. Just the beginning, remember, they hate the individual people even if they dont know them

They are violent, mindless motherfuckers.

[Human101948]

2. Gay citizens have a gun rights too...

He ought to watch out.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Not surprising.

It also brings to focus another issue, which serves as a reminder that gay people "aren't there yet". Yes, we have marriage equality...WHOO HOO! LGBT people aren't included in many anti-discrimination laws; we can be fired in 13 states for being LGBT; we can lose our home in 15 (I think) states. The road to true equality and citizenship has been made a little longer, but the Emerald City is still miles away!