LA: Registrant beaten after being recognized from sex offender flyer.
A 17-year-old boy who realized he was at the same convenience store as a man whose picture had appeared on a mailed sex-offender notice followed the man away from the shop and beat him up, New Orleans police said this week.
Now, besides facing a count of misdemeanor battery, Tyrin Calloway stands accused of a hate crime, apparently on the theory that he targeted his alleged victim, a stranger, for being a registered sex offender, according to Criminal District Court records.
… While paramedics took the man to a hospital, police handcuffed Calloway and questioned him. They said he waived his right to remain silent and explained that the beaten man was on a sex-offender notice card the teenager had received in the mail.
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Wouldn’t this be a case that could be brought against the registry for “endangerment “?
I’m waiting for the headline that reads Registrant Takes Out Would Be Vigilante but that would probably turn into Sex offender charged with assault instead.