{"id":3633,"date":"2007-09-12T20:34:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/12\/more-about-those-attackers-in-the-west-virginia-hate-crime-case\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T20:34:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T03:54:29","slug":"more-about-those-attackers-in-the-west-virginia-hate-crime-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"More About Those Attackers in the West Virginia Hate Crime Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: I wrote this post this afternoon before the announcement that prosecutors will not bring hate crimes charges in this case.\u00a0 I’ll make a more detailed update tomorrow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I guess that some of the people in the West Virginia case have long histories of violence, including killing people. Check this out from the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Brewster family and their trailer has a history of violent crime, the police said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brewster killed his stepfather there when he was 12, the authorities said, and served time at a juvenile correction facility.<\/p>\n

In July 1994, Mrs. Brewster shot and killed an 84-year-old woman she was looking after, also in the trailer, according to court records.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Brewster, who was charged with first-degree murder, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and served six years at a state correctional facility. She was paroled in 2000.<\/p>\n

In 2005, two men got into a fight outside the trailer, the police said, ending with a fatal stabbing.<\/p>\n

In January, the police were again called to the trailer, where they found a man who had been slashed across his abdomen; the man survived, according to court documents, and Mr. Brewster was a witness in that case.<\/p>\n

Also being held in the case of the young woman were Danny J. Combs, 20, who was charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding; George A. Messer, 27, who was charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery; Karen Burton, 46, who was charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony; and her daughter, Alisha Burton, 23, who was charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery. The four were being held in $100,000 bond each.<\/p>\n

The Brewsters were being held pending bond hearings.<\/p>\n

The authorities said they were still deciding whether to file additional charges, of hate crimes, against the defendants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole family is shocked,\u201d a sister of the victim said.<\/p>\n

Relatives said the victim has mild learning disabilities but graduated from high school. The relatives would not comment on whether the victim was living at home or had a job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It would seem to me that the fact that the victim has learning disabilities also makes the release of her name more suspect, and if you watch this video<\/a>, it does not appear that the victim is in any shape to consent to have her name released to the whole world.<\/p>\n

On a side note, clearly these people are dangerous, violent, and disgusting, but they didn’t do this because the are Appalachians, rural whites, or poor whites. They did this because they are criminals, thugs, and racists, so I will not be accepting any comments or commentary like these:<\/p>\n

Hillbilly Hell in West Virginia<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

West Virginia<\/strong>: No Thanks<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Mama! Mama! Look At The White Trash!<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Six Held In Rape, Stabbing of Woman in WV<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Despicable Deeds<\/font><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know plenty of hill folks and poor whites, and the vast majority are not at all like these wackos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: I wrote this post this afternoon before the announcement that prosecutors will not bring hate crimes charges in this case.\u00a0 I’ll make a more detailed update tomorrow.\u00a0 So I guess that some of the people in the West Virginia … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,93,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}