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In reply to the discussion: Ohio man gets jail for mocking disabled girl [View all]thucythucy
(8,045 posts)This was at a school bus stop, not a bar. What a bogus analogy.
In any case, if I'm out having a good time, minding my own business at a bar, let's say, and you decide to get in my face and mock me and threaten to choke me with a chain because of who I am (gay, woman, disabled, person of color, whatever) and not because of anything I've done to you, then yeah, I'd definitely want to see you charged. Disorderly conduct seems to fit the bill nicely.
He targeted this child because she has a disability. The child was obviously traumatized (according to the article she's now afraid to go outdoors). Children with disabilities have rights too, you know, for instance the right to be out in public without being harassed and threatened by full grown adults.