Wednesday, February 2, 2011

??? "Faggot is not a Slur" ???

I know the title is disturbing but it is just as disturbing to what happened with WeHo Flasher Rain Urcia Monday night. Remember when SVC player got into a fight while playing in open gym? Well, it happened again and this time it happened to one of our sisters down in WeHo.

WeHo Flasher Rain and the rest of the gang was playing at their usual Monday spot when a Samoan girl at Buena Park deliberately threw a ball at Rain. They gave each other dirty looks. rain turned away until the samoan girl yelled out faggot. threatened and offended by the term rain approached her and asked what did u just call me. She then yelled i called you a faggot what are you gonna do about it faggot? At this time 2 people were already stopping the samoan girl (has previous probation) hit Rain on his face. enraged rain yelled you bitch and people were already stopping both rain and the samoan from any physical contact with each other. On lookers called 911 and the samoan tried to run away and threatened to call her brothers and the cops came in almost missing the Samoan girls group. 3 of the girls tried to stop their group while the pushing kept on going (one of girls friend said “this is the way we deal with things”).

What’s really messed up is that, when the cops arrived, our sisters felt like the cops sided with the other group who we think started it all calling what happened just another “high school drama” comparing it to football or whatnot. Another thing that the cops said was being called a “faggot” is not a hate/slur term but an angry word and (it was even compared to the "N" word) that if Rain files a case on them it will be a waste of time. They also mentioned that if they end up arresting the girl, Rain will have to be arrested as well because he called the girl a bitch.

When one of the cops went to the perpetuators and talked to the Samoan girls group he was seen by Rain and other volleyball people saw the cop laughing with them and was even doing high fives with them. Obviously, the cops chose a side and totally brushed of how Rain felt and they felt bullied not only the other group but the cops as well who was supposed to protect the victim. And it doesn’t stop there, how did Rain initially get banned ( which was now lifted thanks to testimonies of factual things that happened and help of friemds) at Buena Park when obviously he was the victim here not only from the other group,but the cops and the facility.

This is truly sad and distrubing that in this age and time that things like this still happen. We pray for justice for Rain. Love you Sis!

not using xoxo,
ChaCha

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope they will talk to higher ups in the police dept, the city council, local gay paper about this. It's unacceptable behavior by the police.

Anonymous said...

Yes, get this information about immediately to the gay press down there. Hitting someone is assault. Hitting someone while yelling "faggot" warrants further investigation into a possible hate crime. The police may try to down play it- but their superiors will not be able to. And if nothing else, at a minimum, this girl has violated her probation and will have to face those consequences.