Punk Who Beat On Black Woman Finally Arrested/​out On Bond

A viral video shows a Black woman vicious­ly assault­ed in a racial­ly moti­vat­ed attack by a white Jacksonville, Florida, man that left the vic­tim trau­ma­tized. Kevin Williamson, 59, has been arrest­ed and charged with bat­tery, but the vic­tim wants Williamson to face stiffer hate crime charges.
Rayme McCoy, 23, is still heal­ing from a vicious attack last week after being beat­en at a gas sta­tion in Jacksonville on May 16. McCoy says as she walked into the gas sta­tion for a rou­tine gas sta­tion expe­ri­ence, she over­heard Williamson yelling
“He came in the store after me, and said the remark, go back to where y’all came from, and I’m tired of y’all kind,” McCoy said.
McCoy says Williamson direct­ed his anger toward her and start­ed berat­ing her with racist com­ments, and then got in her face. “I was like, sir, can you just back up and he said he had his gun in his car and I said, I’ll call my dad,” McCoy said.

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Surveillance video cap­tured what hap­pened next that left McCoy in com­plete shock as Williamson start­ed hit­ting McCoy repeat­ed­ly in the face. The after­math of the assault left the 23-year-old bruised and swollen on parts of her face and eyes.
“She’s obvi­ous­ly still trau­ma­tized by this event and is still going through it as you can plain­ly see,” said Ben Frazier, civ­il rights activist and founder of North Florida Coalition, who is also advo­cat­ing for McCoy.
Frazier draws a con­nec­tion between what hap­pened to McCoy and what hap­pened just two days ear­li­er in Buffalo, New York, when anoth­er white man unleashed a racist attack killing 10 Black peo­ple inside a gro­cery store.
“We rec­og­nize there is a direct con­nec­tion between what hap­pened in Buffalo and what hap­pened in Jacksonville, Florida,” Frazier said.

Frazier says racial vio­lence has been part of the America’s his­to­ry for gen­er­a­tions. This coin­cides with recent Justice Department data that shows anti-Black hate crimes and inci­dents spik­ing since 2020, far sur­pass­ing any oth­er racial or eth­nic group.
Data released last year shows anti-Black hate crimes reach­ing 2,871 report­ed inci­dents, which is up from 2019 fig­ure of 1,930 report­ed inci­dents. Reported anti-white hate crimes and inci­dents were 869, Anti-Latino hate crimes and inci­dents were 517, Anti-Asian hate crimes and inci­dents were 279. “To be attacked bru­tal­ly and vicious­ly by a white man who had noth­ing on his mind but per­pet­u­at­ing the kind of racism and dis­crim­i­na­to­ry vio­lence and ter­ror,” Frazier said.
Both McCoy and Frazier say they want Williamson to face fed­er­al hate crime charges for the attack. “We’re demand­ing that the FBI inves­ti­gate this, and the Justice Department call it exact­ly what it is; it is in fact a hate crime,” Frazier said.
“I just hope he actu­al­ly gets charged,” McCoy said.
Jacksonville Sheriff’s deputies arrest­ed Williamson on Friday, four days after the attack, and charged him with bat­tery for the attack and was booked into a pre-tri­al deten­tion facil­i­ty. WJXT report­ed Williamson appeared before a judge on May 21, and was ordered to be held on a $20,000 bond.(First appeared in Atlantablackstar)