President Trump, Hate, and Biker Violence

Yesterday, in an interview in Breitbart, President Trump lowered himself to the gutter:

So here’s the thing—it’s so terrible what’s happening,” Trump said when asked by Breitbart News Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle about how the left is fighting hard. “You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad."  

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As President Trump paints illegal immigrants as public safety threats, let’s talk about how white supremacist gangs terrorize immigrants and gays.

On Nov. 8, 2008, Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, was murdered in the town of Patchogue, N.Y.

Police say a gang of teenagers who called themselves the Caucasian Crew were responsible for the killing.

They target Latino residents as part of a sport they termed “beaner-hopping.”

Jeff Conroy-- a teenager from Long Island-- was convicted in the murder of this migrant, day-laborer.

White-member gangs also use “curb stomping” for an initiation rite.

Featured in a 1998 movie, American History X, this intensely violent act is called a curb stomp, also curbing, curb checking, curb painting, or making someone bite the curb.

It begins by confronting a suspected immigrant or gay person on a street.

The victim is forced to the ground. His mouth is forcefully opened on a curb. Usually, a gang member holds down the victim's head.

The attacker stomps on the victim’s head from behind, causing severe injuries and sometimes death.

In the picture above, Dane Hall, 20, lost six teeth, suffered a broken jaw in multiple places and a piece of broken bone was shoved into his brain during an attack while he was leaving Club Sound in Salt Lake City on Friday night, Aug. 26, 2011. Hall is openly gay and believes the attack was a hate crime. He said his attackers uttered gay slurs during the assault.