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.
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.
Handing out (or mailing) flyers to warn residents of registrants living in their communities is akin to yelling “fire” in a movie theater because someone was seen with lighter in their pocket.
Causing undue alarm in the public is a chargeable offense when private citizens incite it, yet our own government pushes these illegal and immoral policies and ordinances even though they should know better.
In my opinion, theirs is the greater offense – a person is beaten and scarred while a minor is made into a criminal – none of which would have happened if it were not for the actions of those who disseminated these notifications under the guise of public safety.
This “minor” as well as many other minors across this country are more dangerous than the adults we teach them to fear. To hell with this “minor”. We’re so worried about protecting “the children” when it’s the children we should all fear. Many minors his age are running in gangs in Chicago, NYC, Los Angeles and other cities around the county.
Screw this minor. Now he can have his start at a possibly ongoing criminal history.
How many more times is this going to be allowed to happen will it take a registrants family member being injured or killed before anything is done oh wait it already has happened ( Registrant and his wife killed by vigilante) and still nothing is done about us being targeted by vigilantes.I’m a peaceful man by nature but I firmly believe in protecting my family and myself I’m starting to see no other way to protect myself than by whatever I’m legally allowed access to and use it full force against any attacker
Just more injustice…. I have had my life ruined by this illegal sex offender crap and I have done nothing to anyone and that is the plain truth. However, I am still harassed by neighbors, police who blatantly make crap up to bother you in any way they can. They charged me with a sex offender because I was swimming naked with my girlfriend on my own property? That is a sex offense in the state of Oklahoma. They charged me with felony indecent exposure whatever the fuck that is?? no victim!
When people do documentaries on sexual offenses they need to include issues like what happened to you.
Iv been able to fight my entire life. I grew up poor and in bad areas. I have been a registrant for over 20 years now. I can think of at least 5 times that I would have been a victim like this if I hadn’t known how to defend myself. This dosent suprise me. I’m surprised it dosent happen more often.
The registries are working exactly as they were intended to work.I have said this from day one and people scoffed. Still scoffing?
People are missing the large point. It is not the teenagers fault. He didn’t do anything except what he felt the government had already condoned. He is doing what the public is being conditioned and groomed to do. The government should be brought up on hate crime charges.The government has deliberately created a registry platform and deliberately created a propaganda and flyer network that serves no other purpose then to desensitize the public into accepting a portion of the public as less than human and deserving of abuse,torture , experimentation and murder.. It is not accidental. It was first done in Nazi Germany. The registries were how they so quickly found the dissidents, Christians,Jews and political opponents when the time came for the cattle cars and gas chambers. BUT the registries started NOT with the jews. They started with the criminal dissidents, the people most quickly to not have public support..When the public was desensitized enough to help the government abuse those on the registries THEN the registry was unfolded for its real purpose and everyone else the government didn’t like was then included.
This is text book how to get a population of people to follow a corrupt government into created a mass atrocity.Beware.America is getting ready to do horrible things that will make China look like school children.And they are getting the world to help them…How did The German government convince 0ver 75% of its population to assist in the murder,torture,experimentation and rapes of over 25% of its population? YOU are watching front row seats exactly how it is done..Get your popcorn, fight back or run and hide.. But sure as heck dont stay and be further victimized..It is coming.
I still say a class action law suit against the Kanka family and the state of NJ should happen. They started this crap.
What does a skinny dipping issue have to do with the rape and murder of a 7 yr old? What does a POST PUBESCENT teenager with an older person have to do with the rape and murder of a 7 yr old?
What does sexting between teenagers have to do with the rape and murder of a 7 yr old?
Answer to all above – NOTHING!
Based on what grounds?
Actually this entire mess started with the gross negligence of the Raines County Sheriff Dept in MN I believe. They are the agency that totally failed the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Jacob Wetterling. In the Dark is a must hear Podcast that describes their ineptness…
Surprised to see he is getting charged with a hate crime. It’s about time people are punished for targeting registrants.
Wow. I’m really shocked that a backwoods state like Louisiana has a more progressive way to handle vigilantism against registrants than Floriduh. Okay, so I’m not so surprised since there are no books in NOLA. Not only is this man protected by a hate crime law, but the paper didn’t reveal his identity.
When this happens in Floriduh, there is no protection because the “Hate Crimes Law” doesn’t exist. It’s nothing but a reporting system:
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0800-0899/0877/Sections/0877.19.html
Unless you consider 775.085 Evidencing prejudice while committing offense; reclassification.— [which takes into account age over 65 and homelessness]
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0700-0799/0775/Sections/0775.085.html
Also, in Floriduh, this man’s face and crimes would be the focus of the story, not that he was victimized and severely beaten. I was somewhat appalled by the arrogance of the attacker. He thought it was okay to attack a registered citizen just because he was on the registry.
From the article:
“Louisiana law provides for hate crime charges when victims are targeted “because of actual or perceived race, age, gender, religion, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, or ancestry of that person or the owner or occupant of that property or because of actual or perceived membership or service in, or employment with, an organization.”
Court documents didn’t specify under which of those definitions police booked Calloway on the hate crime count.”
I will be very curious to see if this charge stands up and, if so, how exactly they will categorize the victim under that statute. That could be an interesting precedent. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
A huge example of the
punitive nature of a public registry…..so glad to see the police viewed it as a hate crime.
But wait, to be a hate crime, we have to be a recognized class of people. If so we would guaranteed certain protections under the law that before this incident, didn’t seem to be afforded to us.
Hum, is this progress ? If so sorry that man had to be the case study for it by being beaten up.
About time the Registry is looked upon hit list. I don’t like to see anyone in jail but I think the cops did the right thing by charging the kid with hate crime!
Of course he did! It’s understandable – a kid (which he legally is not 18) is doing what he is genetically programed to do which is help his group/tribe survive.
He was reacting to the innate US/THEM impulse which helped our species evolve and is “hardwired” into us. The government has done a GREAT JOB using this to deliberately dehumanizing those they label as “sex offenders” so they not wanted in ANY social group!
Everyone does it from soccer mom’s blocking a sex offender from picking up their child from school – to communities putting up a bench and a planting a tree then calling it a park and using that as a “legal” way of keeping those labelled as “sex offenders” out of THEIR community.
You can hardly blame this “child” for simply doing what his parents, community leaders, and police ALL DO (think those high absurd yet daming Halloween signs) and it shows how incredibly susceptible we are as a species for this sort of manipulation which more than not has tragic results for us – YET – remember “it’s not punishment”! Bullshit
As long as we are nothing more than a faceless group nothing is going to change. Just as the gays managed to become individuals and not simply a stereotype – we must do the same – it is the ONLY way!
#RegistrationIsPunishment
Well said my friend. This man and his family needs to sue the hell out of not just the boys family and take them for everything they own, but sue the state as well. Take it as far as they can take it and make an example (haven’t we heard that before) out of the state, the boy and his family, and put everyone else on notice that this is NOT going to happen ANYMORE! Like you said, we need to stand up and fight and we need to do it by taking our gloves off. No holds barred anymore. This is insane.