Beaten in retaliation for St. Swisher. Update to this story.
Via NY Daily News
An Iraq war veteran, hospitalized since an alleged racial beating in Mississippi amid heightened tensions following Michael Brown’s death, is “not coming home anytime soon,” his father said.
U.S. Marine Ralph Weems, 32, suffered a “traumatic brain injury” after he was attacked and told a West Point, eastern Mississippi, restaurant wasn’t “safe for whites” in August, father Ralph Weems III told the Clarion-Ledger.[…]
In September, Weems was moved to a VA rehabilitation facility in Texas that was supposed to “push him harder than he has been pushed in years,” according to the Facebook page Standing Up for Ralph Weems.
“It’s kinda like he’s going through Boot Camp all over again,” a post read. “But he made it through it once before, there is no doubt that he will do it again.”[…]
Constance Levail McFarland, 21, Marquavious McMillian, 20, and Courtez McMillian, 22, were charged with aggravated assault in the attack.
The FBI and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation are trying to determine whether the case is a hate crime.
But West Point Police Chief Tim Brinkley said the evidence suggests it was “a verbal altercation turned physical and somebody got hurt.”