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By: Woman charged in IHOP shooting rejects plea bargain offer | Call Me A Homo

Woman charged in IHOP shooting rejects plea bargain offer | Call Me A Homo — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:10:48 +0000

[...] woman charged with shooting a gay man inside an International House of Pancakes restaurant in the city’s Columbia Heights section in March rejected a plea bargain deal from [...]

By: Woman charged in IHOP shooting rejects plea bargain offer | Washington Blade - America's Leading Gay News Source

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:59:52 +0000

[...] House of Pancakes restaurant in Columbia Heights (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)A woman charged with shooting a gay man inside an International House of Pancakes restaurant in the city’s Columbia Heights section in March rejected a plea bargain deal from [...]

By: Barrie Daneker

Barrie Daneker — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:59:02 +0000

once the investigtion is over and the case is done we can file for records that relate to the decision made my the USAO, so Glvo get right on that! We need to protest the USAO, Cathy’s house. I bet one night without sleep from them or their neighbors and this will end them looking the other way! Wake up Ron we’re coming for you!

By: Barrie Daneker

Barrie Daneker — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:56:25 +0000

We need a new US Atty! Ron if this case goes down without a hate crime conviction, or attempted murder charge I will call for your resignation! Enough is enough! stop fucking around and get these haters to serve hard time before this community is at your door and office night and day in protest! It is completely unacceptable and frankly disgusting wht is happening in this cas and judge Sullivan watch your step you could be next with the protests. Letting someone go who has shot someone. Oh she is pregant….big deal..she shot someone! Let her rot in jail for at least 20 years for her actions

By: brian

brian — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:00:49 +0000

It is shameful that LGBT Americans have to worry about their public safety and that of their loved ones when visiting DC. It is THEIR nation’s capital, too.

Haven’t we seen this song and dance routine from MPD and USAO-DC before?

DC’s Chief of Police professes her personal outrage at an anti-LGBT hate crimes spontaneous street protest. The LGBT protesters are told what they want to hear. Vague promises of ‘quick closure’ by MPD are made. But when the protests dies down and the news falls off the front pages, MPD and USAO-DC (w/ jurisdiction over DC under the U.S. Department of Justice) continue their defacto policy of benign neglect of DC’s hate crimes law.

MPD frequently passes the buck when queried by the LGBT press, claiming it is up to USAO-DC to charge for a hate crime. But USAO-DC claims they can “never comment” on the reasons for their decisions. So we get a nice and tidy stone wall from both agencies.

Reading between the lines, tho… the fact is MPD can not really consistently charge and arrest for hate crimes when USAO-DC so clearly prefers to ignore DC’s hate crimes law. So maybe it is time to ask the President of the United States why his Department of Justice is not serious about enforcing the hate crimes law in the nation’s capital on behalf of LGBT victims.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:27:13 +0000

For [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] sake! This lousy [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] tried to kill a gay man and she’s out of jail wearing a ankle monitor?!

If the U.S. Attorney’s office isn’t anti-gay then I’ve never seen the sky when it’s blue!

If this victim were anyone else, absolutely anyone else, attempted murder would get you NO B O N D!!

The L.G.B.T.Q. community has got to picket this U.S. Attorney’s office. This women tried to kill this man. Kill him!!