5 Feet of Fury

‘Is it ever permissible to find a hate crime’ funny?’

asks Jim Goad:

Ward effortlessly parrots moldy old civil-rights rhetoric in his quest to “empower this young generation” and to “fight for justice, equality, safety, and change.”

But last week when Devin Barrington-Ward decided to interview Moragne’s family about the incident, the story took a queer turn indeed.

On Friday, Ward was again on local TV, but this time insinuating that Brandon White had lied about not knowing his attackers. Moragne’s mother and lawyer apparently told Ward that Brandon White had been assaulted because his cell phone contained video footage of one or more of the attackers performing homosexual acts.