Texas man freaks out at the sight of lesbian parents, beats woman half to death
The local police are refusing to label it as a hate crime.
Joe. My. God.: TEXAS: Lesbian Suffers Broken Jaw In Playground Attack By Anti-Gay Parent
“When he walked up thinking it was father and mom with the kid, he wasn’t as angry,” said [girlfriend Hillary] Causey, 26, “but then when he figured out it was a female, he got like super pissed, and I don’t know why.” She said the man punched and kicked Scarber repeatedly, hurling homophobic slurs at her while she lay on the ground, unconscious. “He was like, ‘well if you think you’re a man… I’m going to treat you like a man,’” Causey said. “All she kept saying was, ‘I’m a female. I’m a female…' She never even had time to take her hands out of pockets to try and block herself.” Mesquite police haven’t caught the suspect. Officers aren’t convinced the attack meets the true qualifications of a hate crime, since the scuffle among children was the initial trigger. “At this point, we have no indication the assault occurred because of her sexual orientation,” said Lt. Bill Hedgpeth with the Mesquite police. “Regardless of motive, we want to catch them.”
