It’s going to be a long and potentially very un-merry holiday season for alleged gay basher Kathryn Knott of Philadelphia.
During a pretrial motion this week, a judge ruled that homophobic and Islamophobic tweets posted by 25-year-old Knott to her Twitter account will be admitted as evidence in the trial against her, which set to begin in just a few weeks.
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As you may remember, Knott, a former emergency room technician and daughter of a local police chief, and two others were accused of savagely beating up a gay couple while screaming antigay slurs in Center City, PA in September 2014. As a result of the attack, one of the men had to have his jaw wired shut for several weeks.
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Knott’s two cohorts in the attack, Philip Williams and Kevin Harrigan, both accepted plea deals earlier this year, but Knott chose to fight the charges against her in court.
She may be regretting that decision now.
Some of the Knott’s tweets being entered into evidence include:
- @krisssstenxoxo the ppl we were just dancing with just turned and mafe out with eatch other #gay #ew
- jazz flute is for little fairy boys
- My cab driver starting shouting some jihad shit so I starting singing America the beautiful #merrica.
- @g0_nads he’s gonna rip me today for my hair..just wait. #dyke
- this camo song is gay like all the other brad paisley songs
Knott’s attorney tried saying that including the tweets in the trial would be “character assassination” and asked that they not be admitted as evidence.
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But Michael Barry, chief of the District Attorney’s Central Division, argued that the tweets were “overwhelmingly relevant” in establishing Knott’s motivation for the attacks as “a number of tweets … clearly indicate a general dislike to a disgust of gays and lesbians and people of other backgrounds.”
“She does not like gay people. This is why the fight happened,” Barry said. “She’s one of the people who jumped in and joined the assault.”
In the end, Judge Roxanne Covington ruled the tweets did, in fact, exhibit an alleged bias against minorities and, therefore, could be used in the trial.
Knott faces one count of conspiracy, two counts of aggravated assault and related offenses. Jury selection is expected take place on December 9, with opening statements likely begin the following day.
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h/t: Philly.com
Vance McCarter
it’s horrible indeed bout her like that from homophobic
Auxifur White Wolf Wolfgram
People like her, usually are the the first to die. So it’s no real loss if people like them die. And that bottle is proof. Hate to sound cold hearted, but homophobic people can just die off.
Justin Weeks
Evil cunt hope she dies
Sand Nierenberg
Who cares if she dies tomorrow no loss begone loser a drunk low life loser
Brian Nesbitt
I hope this teaches her a lesson. Preferably over a long time in jail. If not, then I’m sure she’ll wind up here again.
JerseyMike
lock this b!tch up
MJ Silva
She’s foul. :-/
Victor Barry
I’ve seen worse.
martinbakman
I’ll be surprised if she serves much time. At least the world will always know how hateful and clueless she is. Her daddy will likely need to find her a job. Can’t imagine most hiring managers would take on such a train wreck.
JerseyMike
@martinbakman: I will be surprised if she serves any time
Realitycheck
@martinbakman: Her Daddy should be fired as well, this low life trash and his daughter feed off each other homophobia.
Hope the trow away the key, she is garbage!!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hoping that nasty vile crunt gets all that is coming to her on her first night in prison………
Brandon Rushing
Donny Thompson
David Ryan Carr
Jace Duval
Luis H. Lopez
Good what a repulsive bitch !
Cam
Her dad is a police chief in another town, she won’t do any time. The two other guys took a plea for very little punishment. The ONLY reason her father would let this go to trial is because his friends in the court system have already assured him that she will be taken care of.
Watch for her getting off on a technicality.
Jeremy Kowalewski
Good, ignorant twat!
J Stephen Lowe
I hope this little bitch gets locked up for a good long while. Let her get a taste of lesbo lockdown.
Xzamilio
Please… the other two didn’t get jail time, it’s not likely she will either. A fine, probation, and everyone moves on with their lives if they haven’t already.
Wilson W Wong
hope this cunt gets jail
Kevin J Desmond
Fucken piece of trash … I remeber reading about this a while back. I hope to god somebody take a red hot iron rod and shoves it up her twat so the bitch can never reproduce. Lets she her poice chife daddy try to stop her court date … sounds like a dirty cop to me.
Erik Wadelin
Stupid bitch shes probably a lesbian and scared so shes attacking other gays..you know so no one finds out
Hillers
@Cam: Exactly. Conventionally attractive white girl whose daddy is a police chief? At most, a couple hours of community service that she’ll probably fulfill by petting puppy dogs at the pound or something. She’ll be just fine, and there will be not justice.
Marie Savin
Cunt
1EqualityUSA
She will likely serve no time. Community service? Communities have enough problems. She truly needs to give up alcohol. Personalities are formed by the age of five, so I have little hope. I do not wish harm on her and hope that any punishment that does come her way changes her in a positive way. Anger would be a good place to start. Alcohol has to leave.
Gene Irvine
I can’t imagine why someone would be like this, and I won’t try to figure it out. What happened at the hands of her and her friends was horrible. I am just glad it will be used as evidence.
Jamie Weldrick
Maybe her father never loved her but let’s bring back public punishment like lashings or the guillotene
Nick Evans
Isn’t she just precious!
Mohamad Ali CR
A really sad person
BigG
im not a violent person, but this bitch deserves a major beatdown.
Brian
I hope that her tampons fail to absorb.
Cam
Wonder if her father has already had his buddies on the force threaten the victims and any witnesses.
Dinodogstar
For me personally, the most important take-away lesson lies with one-of-the-two men who also did the attack; he was a school gym teacher at a Catholic School; yes, before you get ahead of me, i agree that his cultural climate of social and religious intolerance certainly must have inspired him to be so ‘Christ’-like, and beat down a stranger.. The redeeming good part here, is that he was actually FIRED–and not PROMOTED, as you might assume–from his job at the Catholic school..but like MOST abusive lay and clergy within the Church’s system, he probably has just moved to a local parish school here in St. Louis, where we are much more accepting of intolerance and bigotry.
enfilmigult
@Cam: I don’t know. I’m sure she thought her connections would get her out of this as well, but they didn’t keep this evidence from being admitted. And this is pretty big news for this kind of charge. Nobody would notice if her father made a parking ticket go away, but this would be noticed.
I think she may really be screwed. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer gay-basher.