Earlier today
University of North Carolina student Quinn Matney is gay. For that, he says, someone scarred him for life.
Matney said a man walked up to him last week near a foot bridge on the Chapel Hill campus, called him a derogatory name, told him, “here is a taste of hell,” and held a heated object to his skin for several seconds, leaving third and fourth-degree burns.
Obviously, all sorts of gay and lesbian groups were upset, were writing letters, thinking about having sit ins, marches, demonstrations, awareness gatherings and…..oh, wait, it’s a couple of hours later
An alleged hate crime against a gay student on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus last week was false, officials said Tuesday.
Chancellor Holden Thorp said a student who told authorities he was branded with a searing hot object because of his sexual orientation filed a false police report and that it will not be reported as a hate crime.
The local Triangle area media were all up in arms earlier, as were lots of liberal site here and across the country. Now it’s like “eh, nevermind.”
