i've read now where a man asked the attacked woman how she was doing as she entered the bathroom, she replied 'not now'. she heard people outside the bathroom saying 'that's a dude' while she was in there. when she came out, she was approached by the older girl who accused her of hitting on her boyfriend and the two attackers began spitting, kicking, pushing, etc., which led to a full out assault on her. she is also epileptic, and a blow to her head, reportedly, sent her into a seizure.

to see two young girls acting like such barbarians is really sickening. i don't care what the legalities come down to, these two have much hate in their heart and have much to learn on being a woman themselves. in a civilized world a penis in the women's bathroom alerts McDonald's management. In a civilized world a woman doesn't beat up another for talking to her man. perhaps their ninja skills will come in handy behind bars, at least for the older of the two. shame on them.

It was not a hate crime.

hate crime noun
Definition of HATE CRIME

: any of various crimes (as assault or defacement of property) when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hate%20crime



The beating occurred not because the man was transgendered, but because he/she was assumed to have been "hitting on" the other woman's boyfriend. This is a case of jealous rage, not hate crimes. The jealous woman was only "protecting" what was "hers", not targeting the victim because of his/her gender choice. If THAT was the case, she would have shouted out about the transgender and attacked him/her based solely on that.

The transgendered party is only using his "switch" to claim media attention when in all actuality it was a defensive measure (albeit a very "caveman" type) of a woman ensuring her "man" stay her "man" and no other woman try to claim him.

Some new info about the 18 yo attacker..

Teonna Monae Brown, 18, was charged with first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree assault in the attack. Brown — who was charged with assaulting another woman in the same restaurant a year ago — was ordered held without bail Monday at the Baltimore County Detention Center. Brown's companion, a 14-year-old girl, was charged with second-degree assault in last week's incident.

Court records show that Brown was involved in a previous confrontation with a woman on July 27, 2010, at the same McDonald's on Kenwood Avenue. The victim in that case, Danielle K. Dower, ultimately asked prosecutors to drop assault charges against Brown.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-mcdonalds-beating-case-20110425,0,5447618.story


Danielle K. Dower, 38, told police that on July 27, 2010, she was at the Kenwood Avenue McDonald’s with her two daughters when Brown and her friends began badgering them.

Dower said she left the restaurant but Brown and 2 of her friends pursued them outside.

Dower said Brown followed her and her daughters to another store where punches were thrown again and her wig was snatched off her head. Brown, who is 5′-5″ and 170 lbs, then hit Dower with an umbrella and dragged her oldest daughter across the floor by her hair.

In a handwritten statement, Dower wrote that she sustained “a few cuts to my face” and “my head was hurt from the hair pulling.”

well good then, that should clear her from HATE CRIME charges, she is just an angry BIOTCH...

I see it as a hate crime because the criminals are black and the victim is white.

Brown sounds like a racist whore to me!

i won't disagree with that, but they are saying it was a transgender issue, which i don't agree with...

interracial crime is not the same as hate crime,,,hate crimes stem from the MOTIVATION behind the crime,,,not the race of the victim/perpetrator

Well it would be a hate crime if the victim were black and the criminals were white therefore I see no difference. I hope it is treated as a hate crime and they both go to prison, not jail or juvy but good ol' American prison!

I'm not buying this bit about this person hitting the criminals man! They did it because they are animals and this isn't the first time this chick has done this.

true dat! Just as it is a hate crime cuz the victim "happened" to be transgender....

and there was a MC DONALDS GOLDMINE involved. if this happened outside a PHO Noodle house, there would be no LAWSUIT

not by my experience i have been assaulted twice by white males , the one which went to court was not charged with any hate crime although he did make a reference to my race

Im sorry, really...

thanx hon, its water under the bridge

If you don't mind me asking how long ago was this and what did they do to you?

it was in the nineties, the charge was kidnapping and sexual assault

Sorry that happened to you!

1964 Federal Civil Rights Law

The 1964 Federal Civil Rights Law, 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2), permits federal prosecution of anyone who "willingly injures, intimidates or interferes with another person, or attempts to do so, by force because of the other person's race, color, religion or national origin" [1] because of the victim's attempt to engage in one of six types of federally protected activities, such as attending school, patronizing a public place/facility, applying for employment, acting as a juror in a state court or voting.

Persons violating the 1969 Federal Hate Crimes Law face a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both. If bodily injury results or if such acts of intimidation involve the use of firearms, explosives or fire, individuals can receive prison terms of up to 10 years, while crimes involving kidnapping, sexual assault, or murder can be punishable by life in prison or the death penalty.[1] U.S. Courts provide for criminal sanctions only. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 contained a provision at 42 U.S.C. § 13981 which allowed victims of gender-motivated hate crimes to seek "compensatory and punitive damages, injunctive and declaratory relief, and such other relief as a court may deem appropriate", but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Morrison that the provision is unconstitutional.
[edit] Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (1994)
Main article: Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, enacted in 28 U.S.C. § 994 note Sec. 280003, requires the United States Sentencing Commission to increase the penalties for hate crimes committed on the basis of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or gender of any person. In 1995, the Sentencing Commission implemented these guidelines, which only apply to federal crimes.[2]
[edit] Matthew Shepard Act
Main article: Matthew Shepard Act

On October 28, 2009 President Obama, signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (attached to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010), which expanded existing United States federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability, and which dropped the prerequisite that the victim be engaging in a federally protected activity.

I would say that what happened to this person constitutes a hate crime.

motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability,



thats easily disputable ESPECIALLY considering the assailants history of random violence

when white people beat up someone of a different race, they try it as a hate crime, not when a white gets beat up, unless they are gay...

My question is were the other victims white? I read something on here that someone else had posted in regards to her past but didn't see anything specifying the victims color.