3 cousins arrested in San Francisco for shooting BB gun at man who they think is gay

[alp227]

(03-03) 17:42 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Three cousins from Hayward have been charged in San Francisco with a hate crime and assault for allegedly firing a BB rifle at the face of a man they believed was gay, an attack the men videotaped, authorities said Wednesday.

Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi and Sayed Bassam, all 24, are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court. They are free on $50,000 bond apiece.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/03/BAV91CAGLG.DTL

This is just so disgusting...three men shoot someone who they think is gay and film it for bragging rights. Hell, I bet that this video is even more clear than the video of police attacking a man in San Jose without much provoking. Even worse is the fact that this crime took place in the ever-tolerant SAN FRANCISCO of all places, not rural Wyoming.

[npk]

1. Love the idiots who videotape their crimes

Makes the trial so much faster.

[LakeSamish706]

2. This should be tried as a Hate Crime, correct? Send this F***wads to the joint. n/t

[David Zephyr]

3. Good. Lock them up. Violent hate crimes is a dangerous pathology.

Jail time.

[Grand Taurean]

4. Channeling Dan White straight from Hell I see.

:puke:

[Ozymanithrax]

5. And Republicans haven't calld this a terrorist attack yeat?

[BrightKnight]

6. Shooting someone in the head is attempted murder.

Air guns can be deadly.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7165028

[Arctic Dave]

7. The conservawackjobs should have tough time with this one.

Their type of bigotry commited by men with middle eastern names.

[northofdenali]

8. Not that he IS gay - but "appeared to be" gay.

From the article: "
Investigators believe the assailants targeted the victim because he appeared to be gay"

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/03/BAV91CAGLG.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0hBfMpZ2J

Jeez. I "appear to be female" so I make a legit target for a misogynist?

I "appear to be liberal" so I make a legit target for a reactionary?

I "appear to be agnostic" so I make a legit target for a fundy?

I think I'll stay away from people.