CBS News Producer Severely Beaten In St. Maarten

From the mail bag - interesting I didn't hear anything about this. I imagine because they were beaten for being gay.

Last week, a group of six New Yorkers were on a Caribbean vacation in St. Maarten. Two of them were brutally beaten — one, Dick Jefferson, a 51-year-old top producer at the CBS Evening News, is out of the hospital but now has a titanium plate in his head; the other, a 25-year-old researcher there, remains in intensive care with brain injuries. Why were they beaten? Because they’re gay, and the attackers had earlier that night been thrown out of a bar for heckling Smith and his boyfriend, Justin Swenson.

story via Gawker

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[raindrops]

Another place under Dutch control that isn't interested in pursuing justice ... and we thought that was just a fluke in Aruba.