Twisted in Tacoma
by Tom Sullivan
You know, in an alternate timeline we might chalk up this kind of attacker to congenital misogyny, inappropriate toilet training, or just being a horrifically twisted excuse for a human being:
Police in Tacoma were searching for a suspect who allegedly attacked a lesbian woman by stabbing her and writing homophobic slurs on her body.
It was late. She was looking for her lost dog.
“He ran up behind me and he said something like why don’t I sound like a boy, that I look like a boy,” she recalled. “And that’s when it started.”
“Are you a dyke?” she said the man asked. “God hates fags.”
Chris told Tacoma police that the man stabbed her in the breast, jaw, left forearm and left thigh with a pocketknife. Police said that the suspect then stripped away her clothes, and wrote “dyke” on her buttocks and back.
But in this timeline, we could just as easily blame the suspect's religion and ask Congress to authorize airstrikes.
The terrorist is still at large.