Here Are The Anti-Gay Tweets A Judge Just Ruled Can Be Used Against Alleged Philly Hate Attacker
A judge rules Kathryn Knott’s tweets can be used to establish proof of a general dislike of gay people. Here they are.
Kathryn Knott is the accused Philadelphia gay basher who refused to plead guilty and accept a plea bargain after being charged, along with two male friends, of attacking a same-sex couple in a highly-publicized case last year. The two men accepted the plea agreement, and Knott is going to trial.
The Philadelphia prosecutor this week won a strong victory. Four of Knott’s tweets will be allowed to be used to establish proof of anti-gay animus – to show Knott doesn’t like gay people, as Philly Magazine reports. No other tweets will be allowed to be used in court. Those tweets have seemingly since been deleted and Knott’s account is now protected.
The four tweets and many others Knott posted, which were first identified and curated by LGBT activist Scott Wooledge, appear ugly and juvenile, and portray someone acting privileged, contemptuous, and far beneath someone raised by a Chief of Police.
They include comments like, “the ppl we were just dancing with just turned and mafe out with eatch other #gay #ew.”
“Jazz flute is for little fairy boys”
“this camo song is gay like all the other brad paisley songs”
“he’s gonna rip me today for my hair..just wait. #dyke“
Wooledge, who is the founder of Memeographs included those and a great many more in a report that, taken in whole, some might think portrays an individual lashing out and seemingly out of control. You can see the four tweets below, and the entire report below those. Wooledge’s report has been viewed over one million times since being published a year ago.
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Image of Knott by Victor Fiorillo via Twitter
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