Tuesday, June 13, 2006

I Hate You So Much. I Hope You Die.

Homeless Man Goes on Trial in Hate-Crime Murder.
"WHITE PLAINS, June 12 — The petite blond woman was found lying in a pool of blood in broad daylight near a popular mall. A homeless black man with a history of violent rapes was quickly arrested a block away, shirtless and soaked in blood. He later told the police that he had hidden in a stairwell with a knife for hours that day, waiting to kill a white person."
[nytimes. June 13, 2006]

Fourth Man Is Arrested After Attack on a Dance Recording Artist in the East Village.
"A fourth man was arrested yesterday in connection with the beating of a Manhattan singer who the police said was attacked by a gang of young men who kicked him, screamed anti-gay slurs at him and broke his jaw as the singer walked through the East Village early Saturday." [nytimes. June 12, 2006]

Batsman Convicted of Howard Beach Hate Crimes.
"A white man who uttered a racial epithet while using a baseball bat to attack a black man in Queens last summer was found guilty of hate crimes yesterday in a case that carried echoes of an infamous racial beating in the same neighborhood two decades earlier." [nytimes. June 10, 2006]

Brooklyn: Teenagers Charged in Hate Crime.
"Four teenagers were charged with assaulting and robbing a 16-year-old boy yesterday in what the police said was a hate crime. Around 3 p.m., at East 15th Street and Avenue T in Brooklyn, the four teenagers, who are black, began punching the victim, who is white, in his face while using racial slurs, the police said." [nytimes. June 7, 2006]