Atlanta Police have launched an investigation into a viral video showing a 12-year-old boy being struck and verbally assaulted by members of his family.
It also appears to show the word gay cut on the side of his head with clippers, supposedly as a punishment. “It popped up on my social media on Friday and when I saw it my heart was broken because I saw a piece of myself in that,” said activist and city council candidate Devin Barrington-Ward.
The child’s home is located in District 9, the district Barrington-Ward hopes to represent. So, he reached out to the young boy and his mother, not for politics, but because he saw a piece of himself in the young boy. “As a Black queer man, I have experienced some of the same homophobia and some of