A jury has convicted an Atlanta truck driver accused of pouring boiling water over two gay men as the pair slept in February. The 48-year-old wasn’t charged with a hate crime because Georgia is one of five states that doesn’t have a hate crime statute. Moments later, he poured the scalding water over the men, The Washington Post reported. so I poured a little hot water on them and helped them out,” he said to police, according to the incident report. It was just a little hot water.”Blackwell claimed the two men were having sex when he poured water on them.

Source: National Post August 25, 2016 15:00 UTC