Kieran Daly, the 26-year-old Savannah man accusing two Marines of gay bashing him, might have his own skeletons in his closet. A January police report says Daly twice shouted “a racial slur” at a truck driver who reportedly followed him off the road and to a gas station after some highway road rage. The truck driver allegedly “grabbed [Daly] by the neck and punched him in the head multiple times,” though Daly says he was injured. As for the charges that he use racial epithets? “Entirely false,” he says.
Which might be true; it might not be. Like Daly’s gay bashing, we weren’t there. And while it doesn’t change what happened that fateful Saturday morning, it does paint Daly as a less sympathetic figure. And it has me thinking attorneys for accused Marines Keil Joseph Cronauer and Christopher Charles Stanzel just might be helping report Daly’s unsavory past.
Tallskin
Urgh, so violence is justified?
Sure there are lots of people I’d like to bash in my everyday dealings with life, arseholes who barge and push on the tube, people who eat fucking smelly fried chicken on the bus in the heat of summer. Blah, Blah
But the point is, I don’t use violence. So, the use of violence is NOT justified in any circumstances.
WiseUp
It just means that, as far as this latest Savannah incident, maybe we should hold off judgement until more facts are in. Kieran Daly sounds like a troublemaker.
MickW
He does look like a racist.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hmm one would figure he was in a car. A truck is usually somewhat larger than a car. One would guess the agressor in a road rage incident would be in the larger vehicle. So if someone in a large truck is following you and then grabs you by the neck and punches you in the head multiple times, I would be willing to give him a pass if he “offended” the truck driver with an epithet or two……………..
@MickW: Where do you get he “looks like a racist”?? I would be more inclined to say he “looks like TR Knight”……………..
WiseUp
Yeah, how does he look like a racist? Not saying he isn’t one, but…what does one look like? And he does look like T.R. Knight. /////////He was arrested, too, for the truck incident, and I’ve been hearing from certain members in the gay community that he’s known as an antagonistic jerk. Of course, that doesn’t give the “culprits” the right to punch him, but, right now I don’t totally trust Daly’s story. Best to wait and see before concluding either way.
WHY TAKE HIS WORD?
The point is not to justify what they did, but show why they did it. Daly alleges they did it because he is gay, but they could have done it to teach him a lesson because he was running his mouth like he did back in January, and that happens all the time. Nobody is saying that knocking someone out is the right thing to do, they are just looking into all sides of the story. If either of the marines had a record, I’m sure we would know about that as well.
WiseUp
Why Take : The Marines have been shown not to have any previous record. On top of all that, Daly had exaggerated his injuries (was running around with a reporter when he was supposed to have been in the hospital with “convulsions”, or whatever). But, yes, the Marine (or anybody) is not allowed to hit first no matter how badly he’s being harrassed. That’s the way the law has to work. I guess he’ll have to be prosecuted for a whatever-degree assault, but this Hate-Crimes biz is just local activists trying to get their names in the paper.