It was three days after their third wedding anniversary, and TC was walking home alone from an evening with friends. They had attended a Nationals game and gathered afterward for drinks at Tune Inn, a Capitol Hill bar.
As he crossed a park near Eastern Market just after midnight, three men approached him and demanded money. He handed over his iPhone and bank card, but as he did so, one of the men came up from behind with an aluminum bat.
Tommy Branch, 23, of Fort Washington called the bat his “Barry Bonds,” according to detectives. With a two-fisted grip, Branch wound up and swung so hard that TC’s skull shattered, an optic nerve was severed and he was left with a dent across the left side of his head.
He was found eight hours later on a front porch a few blocks from home, unconscious and bleeding internally where pieces of his skull had sliced into his brain.
The gray beyond: A family copes after tragedy – The Washington Post
Obama’s primary concern is that Tommy doesn’t get discriminated against looking for a job when he gets out of jail. Obama believes that it is unfair that blacks get arrested more than whites. Obama also believes that it is a good thing that Maslin didn’t have a gun, because otherwise a black person might have gotten shot.
Eric Holder forgot to file hate crime charges, because the victim was white.
And NBC forgot to cover it at all, because they couldn’t figure out any way to cut and paste the evidence to make Maslin look like a racist.
