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Three Brooklyn men, ages 16-20, were charged with hate crimes in the beating of Michael Sandy. Police believe that John Fox, Ilya Shurov, and Gary Timmins met Sandy online and lured him to Plumb Beach, an area off the Belt Parkway, with the intention of robbing him - because Sandy was gay. While setting up the meeting, they asked him to bring enough money for a hotel room. From the NY Post:
Fox then lured him to a spot by the parkway, where the suspect and three friends allegedly robbed and beat Sandy, whom they considered "an easy mark" because he is gay, police said.It is also Sandy's 29th birthday today.The tragic man fled onto the Belt, where he was struck by a car. He is now in a vegetative state at Brookdale Hospital, where his family was struggling with the decision on whether to take him off life support.
Authorities also suspect that the three suspects might have been behind other gay bashings. One thing that remains to be seen is whether the DA's office will be able to successfully argue this as a hate crime; a law professor at John Jay, Brian S. MacNamara, told the NY Times, “The prosecutor will have to prove that in the underlying assault and robbery the victim was targeted in some way because of his sexual orientation. It’s a little bit tricky because, obviously, the main crime was the robbery, so you have to prove that the motivation for selecting that victim was substantially because he was gay.”
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What an awful tragedy. Men need to ask themselves, "If I were a woman, would I meet a man under these circumstances?"
Fortunately, because the victim was gay, they can throw the federal charges at the accused; had the victim been a woman of the same ethnicity as the perps, the victim would be s**t out of luck, so to speak.
Probably gonna be another story "ripped from the headline" on L&O. Yawn.
"The tragic man"??
That is some awful writing. I guess I shouldn't expect more from the Post.
a gay black middle class ikea designer of jamaican decent from long island,a irish/american kid from brooklyn,and his russian/american and italian/american co-horts...now all we need is a republican bisexual midget female asian prosecutor to complete the mix...
What kills me the most is that i attended school with this kid. Not only does he make my school look bad, but he puts fear in the hearts of many that other students are just like him. My school is a very small school with a very small percentage of minority students. In my school mostly all the students are connected since we're such a small school. I would have never expected he would do such a thing. He doesnt even look capable of pulling something off like that. He just opened my eyes to the real world.
Brooklyn, the most segregated borough in the city.
I liked how these thugs wrote explicit e-mails to Sandy. So, that would make them gay themselves.
What is it about white guys and their love of listening to gay sex stuff? This has been going on since the days of IRC and is now mainstream with the advent of that perverted justice site.
I don't know who's sicker, the perv or the guy acting like a perv to get the perv.
(just a note, nowhere did I say Sandy was a perv)
It's like a big joke, ha ha, you thought you were having internet sex chat with a girl but I'M A GUY!. Sickos.