Two teenage girls accused of an attack on a transgender woman at a Maryland McDonald’s have been indicted on hate-crime and assault charges stemming from the April incident, according to the Washington Blade.
The brutal beating of Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, garnered international attention when a McDonald’s employee used his cell phone to capture the attack on video and posted it online.
A grand jury indicted Teonna Brown, 18, on first and second-degree assault and classified the offenses as hate crimes; she is being charged as an adult. Apparently, another girl, 15, will face the same charges in juvenile court.
Lynne Bowman, interim executive director of the state LGBT group Equality Maryland, said, “The state’s attorney for Baltimore County came to the only possible conclusion in deciding to try the assault on Chrissy Lee Polis as a hate crime.”