2022-06-09 21:51:51
Media outlets quietly delete report about a brutal assault on Dame St.
GCN broke the story yesterday that on June 2nd, a 'non-binary queer person' was the victim of a 'brutal homophobic and transphobic attack' while out with friends in the Dame Street area of Dublin.
The survivor of the assault is in their 20’s and was currently in hospital as a result of the injuries they sustained, it was reported.
>One of the survivor’s friends wrapped a Pride flag around them, which prompted their assailants to attack. The person was beaten unconscious with a bat and stabbed multiple times. After that, the men and woman who carried out the attack ran away on foot, though some witnesses saw them escape.
Odd that such a vicious assault had gone unreported for almost a week before being picked up by a a small LGBT focused media outlet. The report included a lot of details and quotes from the victim and their 'chosen family,' allegedly posted to social media which I can't find.
JOE, The Examiner and Hot Press all repeated the story and the usual crowd piled on demanding hate crime legislation with Hazel Chu blaming those "pushing a homophobic agenda." This was probably the biggest twitter thread.
In JOE's report on the incident they wrote "In a statement to JOE, An Garda Síochána said they had no record of the incident on file," but they still went ahead and reported the story as fact.
Today all the reports have been quietly deleted, no corrections issued.
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