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Mark Beckford, Online Content Coordinator
A video on a popular American website , showing a Jamaican man beating a woman has drawn sharp condemnation from executive director of the Bureau of Women’s Affairs Faith Webster.
The video, which up to the publication of this article had over 130,000 views and is over 6 minutes long. It shows a confrontation between a man and a woman.
Webster called the video “disturbing and distressing”.
“I cannot believe in this day and age, that a community is condoning violence against this woman,” she said.
Throughout the graphic video, the angered man holds the woman and repeatedly hits her in the face and body.
The man who is cheered on by others in the community also kicks the woman more than once. The woman tries to pick up a stone to defend herself and throws one at the man once. After she did that she was attacked again.
At the start of the video, the man is heard cursing the woman for breaking his chain.
At least three times, other members of the unidentified community try to intervene, but that did not stop the fight. The assault finally ends when the lady is dragged away by another woman to her house, while some men in the community hold the man.
At the end of the beating, the videographer goes around and interviews eyewitnesses. The majority of the respondents mostly men, agree with the beating as they say the woman had been provoking the man.
A teenager who was smoking a marijuana spliff was in agreement with the assault.
“Easy she fi easy herself, she na no ears,” he said.
Webster said that the video makes the work of the Bureau harder. She said that the community has to take responsibility and stand up against violence.
mark.beckford@gleanerjm.com
SOURCE http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=27379
Mark Beckford, Online Content Coordinator
A video on a popular American website , showing a Jamaican man beating a woman has drawn sharp condemnation from executive director of the Bureau of Women’s Affairs Faith Webster.
The video, which up to the publication of this article had over 130,000 views and is over 6 minutes long. It shows a confrontation between a man and a woman.
Webster called the video “disturbing and distressing”.
“I cannot believe in this day and age, that a community is condoning violence against this woman,” she said.
Throughout the graphic video, the angered man holds the woman and repeatedly hits her in the face and body.
The man who is cheered on by others in the community also kicks the woman more than once. The woman tries to pick up a stone to defend herself and throws one at the man once. After she did that she was attacked again.
At the start of the video, the man is heard cursing the woman for breaking his chain.
At least three times, other members of the unidentified community try to intervene, but that did not stop the fight. The assault finally ends when the lady is dragged away by another woman to her house, while some men in the community hold the man.
At the end of the beating, the videographer goes around and interviews eyewitnesses. The majority of the respondents mostly men, agree with the beating as they say the woman had been provoking the man.
A teenager who was smoking a marijuana spliff was in agreement with the assault.
“Easy she fi easy herself, she na no ears,” he said.
Webster said that the video makes the work of the Bureau harder. She said that the community has to take responsibility and stand up against violence.
mark.beckford@gleanerjm.com
SOURCE http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=27379
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