Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Teonna Brown Sentenced To 5 Years In McDonald’s Transgender Attack
It was a scandalous hate crime caught on camera that grabbed national headlines. Now one of the two young women accused of beating a transgender woman at a McDonald’s learns her punishment.
Derek Valcourt has details on the sentencing.
Teonna Brown was convicted of a hate crime and first-degree assault. She will spend five years in prison.
Over and over again, two teenage girls attack and beat Chrissy Polis inside a Baltimore County McDonald’s until she goes into a seizure — all while a laughing McDonald’s employee records the vicious attack on his cell phone.
The YouTube video sparked community outrage and landed Brown, 19, and her 14-year-old accomplice in jail. Brown is now sentenced to five years in prison. more
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