Two to face trial for alleged South End gay bashing

By adamg on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 9:04am

Two men charged with first taunting and then attacking a man they thought was gay will go on trial on assault and battery and civil-rights charges on Dec. 10, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Darren Morgan, 46, and Howard Rice, 50, were initially charged with assault and battery after the June 15 incident, but an investigation resulted in the civil-rights charge. According to prosecutors, the two, standing near Myers and Chang, 1145 Washington St., hurled homophobic insults at two men who walked by them, and then escalated their attack:

Even as the men tried to avoid the defendants, Rice allegedly placed one victim in a headlock. When he broke free and the victims entered a nearby restaurant, both assailants followed them in and continued to assault them before Boston Police responded and took them into custody.

Innocent, etc.

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If they are lucky,

By anon on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 6:55pm.

they'll get the same judge who presided over the last publicized South End gay bashing where the assailant got a mere slap on the wrist because the judge felt that gay people did not merit constitutional rights.

Hello...get a clue...THIS IS

By tenfortyseven on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:05pm.

Hello...get a clue...THIS IS WHAT STRAIGHT PEOPLE DO!

Meaning?

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:08pm.

Are you saying that "all straight people do this"?

Or are you saying that what they did is okay because "straight people do this"?

I'm not following your comment here ... please explain.

Since gay people almost never

By tenfortyseven on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 1:17pm.

Since gay people almost never go around fag-bashing anyone, gay or non-gay, I do believe that yes, indeed, THIS IS WHAT STRAIGHT PEOPLE DO. When a gay person runs afoul of the the law for any reason, their sexual 'preference' is nearly always brought into the discussion, and quite often it is implied that their homosexuality is the underlying cause for their trouble with the law, and the entire Gay Community is then painted with the same brush . When is that last time you read a story about a heterosexual man molesting little girls where the man's heterosexuality was to blame for it, or even mentioned? I think it's important that the sexual preference of these two losers is brought into the discussion. Their heterosexuality may not be the underlying cause of their actions, but I think a perceived "heterosexual privilege" likely is the cause of it, and will most definitely be the reason that they get off with little or no punishment.

Clearly 'all straight people' do not do this. But I do believe that the majority of straight people think it's not that big of a deal to beat and kill gay people, as compared to, say, a straight man beating/killing a straight woman. Had I wanted to say that 'all straight people do this', then I would have said that 'all straight people do this.'

"But I do believe that the

By anon on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 8:09pm.

"But I do believe that the majority of straight people think it's not that big of a deal to beat and kill gay people"
really?.....way to divide people

Yep, that's a good one. Blame the Gays for Homophobia

By tenfortyseven on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 4:51pm.

The division you write about was made by heterosexuals a long time ago. If a heterosexual has a problem with that division then it's up to her to do something about it; it's not up to gay people to clean up yet another one of your messes.

Maybe you need take another look at the recent MAJORITY vote against gay marriage in California. That was HETEROSEXUALS dividing people, not gay people. Or check out the high school principal in Mississippi who cancelled the school prom rather than allow a lesbian girl to bring her girlfriend. Oops...another example of heterosexuals dividing the people. But don't worry, a fine upstanding heterosexual -- I'll guess white -- citizen has offered to hold a prom for the school, and naturally bar this girl from attending.

Why do you blame a gay person for pointing out this issue? It's the invention of heterosexuals. Don't like it then you fix it.

Sorry I offended you by pointing out your ignorance and the utter stupidity of your statement. Just me being divisive, I guess.

Wow, I never thought about it

By HenryAlan on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 5:01pm.

Wow, I never thought about it that way! I now realize all that pent up anger could be dealt with by going out and bashing a queer. Cool, I'm off to do just that, thanks for pointing out what is in my nature.

And thanks for the comic relief. By the way, it's cartoon characters like you that make it more difficult for people to peacefully coexist in spite of their differences.