How an anonymous Twitter sleuth may have solved a Philadelphia hate crime (and restored our faith in the Internet)

Last Thursday, a little before 11 p.m., a group of “clean cut and well-dressed” 20-somethings strolling through Philadelphia’s moneyed Rittenhouse neighborhood called gay slurs at two men before launching an attack that sent both men to the hospital.

Four days later, Philadelphia police posted a surveillance video of the group on Youtube.

And mere hours after that, an anonymous Twitter user with the handle@FanSince09 announced that he’d found the perpetrators … entirely through social media.

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Originally published in The Washington Post