PITTSBURGH -- A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, apparently because of her political views, Pittsburgh police said.
Ashley Todd, of College Station, Texas, said she was using an ATM at Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when a man approached her and put a knife to her throat.
Police spokeswoman Diane Richard said the robber took $60 from Todd, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using a dull knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.
"She further stated that the male actor approached her from the back again and hit her in the back of her head with an object, she doesn't know what the object was, causing her to fall to the ground where he continued to punch her and kick her and threaten to 'teach her a lesson' for being a McCain supporter," Richard said.
More here from Pittsburg station WTAE Channel 4.
What is interesting to note is that the lunatic-fringe Right are at each others throats trying to hash-out a way to use this. It's either a brutal "hate-crime" or it's a "hoax".
There's a predictably obtuse sense of "they really want this to be true". Not in-so-much as they have any overt sense of empathy or sorrow for what happened to this girl - whether she was attacked or she did this to herself - but it is so close to election day that any weapon to turn the tied in their favor would be welcome, no matter what the cost.
As far as I'm concerned, this situation reveals much about people on the Right.
This isn't to say that they shouldn't have their opinions, their theories of what might have or might not have happened. But, to be actively cheering on some level that this is true is beyond pathetic.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, these same people are keeping just enough distance from saying "Obama supporters did this" so they can back-peddle without catching too much flak.
It's a very think line that they are walking. But, some of these people make a fairly comfortable living like this. They spew hatered and divisiveness only until they sense they are about to cross that point where the eject-button won't work.
This is one of those moments.
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