{"id":36381,"date":"2016-03-19T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=36381"},"modified":"2016-03-19T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:13:56","slug":"man-pours-boiling-water-on-gay-couple-while-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=36381","title":{"rendered":"Man Pours Boiling Water on Gay Couple While Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Atlanta<\/strong>–\u00a0A young couple is recovering from severe burns after police say a man threw burning water on them — \u00a0because they are gay.<\/p>\n

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The victims told Channel 2\u2019s Nicole Carr that they were sound asleep, resting after a long day at work, when they were attacked.<\/div>\n
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“The pain doesn’t let you sleep. It’s just, like, it’s excruciating, 24 hours a day, and it doesn’t go anywhere,\u201d Marquez Tolbert said. \u201cIt doesn’t dial down, anything. It’s just there.”<\/div>\n
Tolbert believes that the second and third-degree burns along his neck, back and arms are scars of hate.<\/div>\n
“Why else would you pour boiling hot water on somebody?” Tolbert asked.<\/div>\n
The 21-year-old and his boyfriend, Anthony Gooden, were severely burned last month when the men say Gooden’s mother’s boyfriend walked in on them sleeping in Gooden’s College Park apartment and poured scalding water all over them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“I can barely think straight because the burning, the stinging is everywhere,\u201d Tolbert said.<\/div>\n
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Even though he said he wouldn’t put up with the couple in his house, Blackwell did not live in that apartment. It belonged to Gooden and his mother, but Blackwell was frequently visiting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to a police report obtained by Channel 2 Action News, Blackwell said he was disgusted by the men’s relationship, telling police, “They’ll be all right. It was just a little hot water on them.”<\/div>\n
“Like, where was your head at? Why would you do this?” Tolbert asked.<\/div>\n
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An Atlanta Police Department LGBT liaison assisted in the case to make sure Blackwell did not make bond, police said.<\/div>\n
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Although they don’t exist in the state of Georgia, the liaison said federal hate crime charges are a possibility in the case, and an upcoming hearing will address that. (via\u00a0wsbtv.com<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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