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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts) Thu Feb 9, 2012, 12:01 PM Feb 2012

Coming up on MSNBC: Atlanta gang-beating of gay man...here's the video

He's going to be on one of the upcoming segments of "The Place For Politics."

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Coming up on MSNBC: Atlanta gang-beating of gay man...here's the video (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Feb 2012 OP

This is ugly, Lunacee2012 Feb 2012 #1

Animals. Shandris Feb 2012 #2

Saw the interview on MSNBC, and he seems OK. Amerigo Vespucci Feb 2012 #4

And Roland Martin likely thought his Broderick Feb 2012 #3

Lunacee2012

(172 posts)

1. This is ugly,

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 12:16 PM

Feb 2012

just plain ugly. I hope they catch whoever did this.

Shandris

(3,447 posts)

2. Animals.

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 12:50 PM

Feb 2012

There really is no other word that comes to mind for me, viewing that.

I hope the victim is okay. As for the attackers...I'm more hoping they encounter some 'justice', street-style.

Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)

4. Saw the interview on MSNBC, and he seems OK.

Reply to Shandris (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 12:54 PM

Feb 2012

His major point...quite rightly so...was that this kind of thing shouldn't happen, whether it's over sexuality or race, etc. Said he was walking out of the store, talking to his grandmother on his cell phone, and they just nailed him out of nowhere.

Broderick

(4,578 posts)

3. And Roland Martin likely thought his

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 12:53 PM

Feb 2012

tweet was humorous. We wonder why this shit happens.

Here's the quote according to MSNBC, "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad," he wrote, "smack the ish out of him!"

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