DC Coppers nabbed 19-year old Georgetown student Philip Anderton Cooney for his reported role in the assault of another unidentified student.
If Cooney’s name sounds familiar, you’re probably thinking of his father, Phil Cooney, who worked as President Bush’s crooked Environmental Quality honcho.
The younger Cooney, meanwhile, allegedly flung anti-gay epithets and fists at a peer last week. DC’s NBC affiliate reports:
Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced that Phillip Anderton Cooney was arrested in connection with the early morning Sept. 9 attack in the 1400 block of 36th Street Northwest. The 19-year-old student from Texas is charged with assaulting the victim while yelling homophobic slurs.
The case was flagged as a potential hate crime based on the victim’s sexual orientation, and members of the police department’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit were assigned.
“The victim said he was walking by a party that was dispersing and two men started following him and yelling homophobic epithets, “D.C. Police Lt. Alberto Jova said. “One of the males approached him and started punching him with closed fists about the face. The victim in this case suffered cuts and bruises to his face and a broken thumb.”
Perhaps it’s Cooney’s political connections that led Georgetown to play down the assault?
Dawster
wow, and with a bow-tie… just like Tucker Carlson.
Exactly what ARE they teaching at Georgetown??
Homosaxa
Georgetown is a mine field for gay students. I graduated in 1991 and was constantly subjected to anti-gay slurs and threats of violence. I received harassing phone calls, and was once baited out to meet another “secretly gay” student. I was sure I was going to get my head bashed in… I met in a public space to prevet a beating–and who showed up…? My R.A. He’s the one who had been harassing me… Nice, when that kind of treatment comes from someone who represents the University.
Ford
It’s unbelievable how quickly you point a finger without any bit of evidence. First of all, Georgetown is not what is was in 1991. For clarification, that was fifteen years ago. No students that formerly were at the university still reside there. Oh and i know these things because I am a Georgetown student now. not fifteen years ago.. There have been several protests against this crime since it has occured, as there should be. However, we should not be so hasty to point the finger at a 19 year old based upon a facebook identification of him. The identification was based upon an overheard conversation, where the accused was protesting that very incident. I know because I know the kid. The news would not mention that would they? Or the fact that Phil Cooney has no record of any violence, other crime or even a detention in his entire life for that matter. Yes, this is an awful crime and it should be preotested by everyone: black, white, gay, straight, religious or atheist. What you ignorant people who posted fail to recognize is that this horrible crime has been and is protested by every Georgetown student that I have talked to (I think that’s more than the student from ’91)including the accused student. Futhermore, you should respect the right of the accused student to undergo a trial and should respect his innocence until that point, You should not just say, ” Oh well, this kid must have committed the crime. What an ignorant, horrible person”. Saying things such as this display your own ignorance. Consider the Duke lacrosse case. You’re just like the prosecutor who thought he was so right with no evidence. Let’s hope you do not act like him later on when Phil Cooney is proven innocent and lets hope you don’t continue to persecute him (despite the fact that you’ve been proven wrong by all evidence). Let’s live by a standard in this country. You want your rights and you deserve them. Give Phil Cooney his right (innocent until proven guilty), he deserves it. If you do not, you are just as bad as any person that has ever said a mean slur to you or called you gay as if it was a negative. You are not respecting someone else’s rights in this country though you want yours. Please respect him. I can promise you that he respects you.
exdc
The accuser says he identified his attacker when a friend overheard a related conversation. However, when questioned, that friend said that no such incident ever happened! It appears that the accuser fabricated the story for the affidavit. If so, not only is Cooney innocent, but the accuser and the MPD (Brett Parson in particular) could be facing some serious legal problems.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
There is no disagreement with the points made in defence of Mr. Cooney by members of the right wing.
Yes, the presumption of innocence is a paramount precept of law. The facts are clear, however. The DC police felt that they had enough evidence to arrest him despite his politically connected father with the Bush White House.
Adjudication will come when the victim faces the defendant and states the obvious, namely that Philip Cooney is the man who assaulted him after hurling anti-gay epithets at the victim.
Who knows what DNA evidence was collected on the victim and similar genetic material from Mr. Cooney? We today live in a world where we can place a human being in a venue that he would not have had any other reason to be there.
I have a few thoughts for the victim. My dear brother, please reconsider an education at Georgetown. As an Anglican bishop, I have many Roman bishop and Jesuit friends. Their academic institutions are world class and I understand the reason. Physical violence from faculty and peers, and the need to matriculate to a minor emphasis in Roman theology is spiritual violence.
g malone
FORD, Let’s hope you do not act like him later on when Phil Cooney is proven innocent and lets hope you don’t continue to persecute him (despite the fact that you’ve been proven wrong by all evidence).
How do you know he didn’t do it?? Sounds like you are VERY close to him.
Innocent before proven guilty
It really scares me that Rt. Rev. Dr. RES is an Episcopalian Bishop???? What state? Could it be Pennsylvania????
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
I am a Canadian and an Anglican -suffragan retired and not a member of the US Church, and obviously, +Gene Robinson scares you more. He is the Ordinary for NH.
Tinkerbell
Innocent before proven guilty seems to be saying that the Bishop RES shouldn’t convict innocent people without the facts, without due process, and a jury of his peers. In fact ,”Father” I have heard Gene Robinson speak and think he is a very dynamic and special man…he doesn’t scare me in the least.Please do NOT rush to judgment…many ,many people are suffering from this….especially the innocently accused!!!