BallerStaf2003 said:
CanyonAg77 said:
CanyonAg77 said:
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Just two years ago gays were going to the hospital in droves from getting beaten with baseball bats in Dallas, until mark cuban donated a million to cops overtime in oaklawn and some guys started walking with guns.
This is literally the only place I've seen that story.
UPDATE BELOW
Went digging through the Google. About a dozen reported assaults, two of which the Dallas PD classed as hate crimes. No arrests that I found. A few of the cases popped up after someone else went public, and others said "me too, I just didn't report it".
Over 30 attacks.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/28/dallas-gay-men-oak-lawn-neighborhood-attacks
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Between then and now, activists estimate there have been about 30 attacks in the Oak Lawn area a dozen or so unreported all but one against gay men and committed by perhaps six to nine individuals.
key words
ACTIVISTS ESTIMATE - i mean they would have no reason to exaggerate. right???
ABOUT 30 - thats not "over" 30 in my view
A DOZEN OR SO UNREPORTED - speaks for itself, how do they count unreported??
PERHAPS 6 to 9 INDIVIDUALS - no idea how they would come to this conclusion but it's NOT a police statement first of all.
So it isn't over 30, not even all against gay men, certainly not all reported, and vague statements like perhaps, estimate, and "or so"....
I'm not saying attacks didn't happen - they most certainly did. But you have a publication and activists that certainly wanted some action. And they got it.
But I wouldn't use this as some bellwether that attacks were significantly on the rise especially since it seemingly disappeared soon after and there were no arrests, etc. despite there being many many cameras in the area.
If you google you'll also find some attacks of the same type from 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2015..... guess who was President then. Not Trump. Was Obama and his followers to blame then??