Black people are craven!They only brave enough to attack people who are puny than they.

If you realy want to show you aggressive?Go agaist the white!

OK, I agree, jaja007, that race is not a 100% determinant of criminality. Hell, I'll even agree that the literal majority (somewhere over 50%) of blacks are not criminals.

But in New York, over 60% of our criminals (and murderers, look through the NYTimes archives for the 2007 murder stats) are black. Regardless, I would never discriminate against any individual black person because of this, really. And usually, discussions about race are bound to go nowhere.

It just pisses me off that in this city, the largely black beneficiaries of our extensive social welfare safety net are not content to have the charity of New York's working class, but proceed to steal and kill with all the leisure time they don't spend working.

Edgar, you ever hear of "Chavs"? They are white UK youths that in some cases wouldn't think twice about stomping a mud hole in your ass just to have something to giggle about over an alcopop. Kids who dont give a fuck come in all races and creeds. You can get jacked in Russia or England and the perp will prolly look just like you..

Hey vesselar,

"who is "they?""

"they" is the project-dwelling neanderthals who committed this vile murder.

"you can't even spell median, correctly"

Nice catch, except that I happened to use the same spelling of median as you. M-E-D-I-A-N. Idiot. You can't even fling ad hominem attacks or use commas, correctly.

"Haha. Well, if someone didn't take what didn't belong to them, you'd never have the United States or Manhattan. It would all be Native Americans, loser."

So in other words, you're saying that theft is justified because someone did it 400 years ago? Also, Manhattan was BOUGHT, not stolen, loser.

I'm surprised you even own a computer. Profound mental retardation is still alive and well in 2008!

And no, I'm not gonna wish it was you who was mugged. Unlike you, who JUSTIFY muggings because some white guys took some land from Indians 500 years ago, I want to see LESS theft, not more.

IDIOT.

unconfirmed news is that the two men in the video surveillance has been caught. however now they're looking for 3 other men and that robbery wasn't a motive. hate crime?

Finally we can all unite under the shared fear and loathing of poor blacks!

I hear blacks don't like Asians because they believe all Asians want to be White or be like Whites. That's probably why they beat him up. But since the victim isn't black, this doesn't count as a hate crime.

Where's Al Sharpton?

yea vesselar, the bigger lesson from the tragic and senseless murder of an innocent and beloved young man as a result of the actions of two degenerates is 'duh, don't run into a street when you're being attacked'

and i don't know that this is a hate crime but you could also have used 'Get the white guy' as an example

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/nyregion/10harlem.html

#36 - An indictment is a formal accusation, or being charged. A grand jury of your peers have to determine if there's probable cause that you've done anything wrong, and it's entirely pre trial and pre sentencing. I don't think it'd be hard to convince a grand jury that they wouldn't have done or wanted to do the same thing if their lives were very seriously threatened. Good lawyers would bring up examples like this. If you're not indicted, a judge can't sentence you at all regardless of bullshit minimums.

Who is "they?"

Jesus, where are you from? Mississippi 1963?

You can't even spell median, correctly. Reports say he was at the bus stop, not in the median.

Haha. Well, if someone didn't take what didn't belong to them, you'd never have the United States or Manhattan. It would all be Native Americans, loser.

There is no excuse for mugging. But you can't blame an entire race for their behavior. Are you the one putting all of those swastikas over town, Edgar? Too bad it wasn't you instead of that unfortunate student.

I'm surprised you even own a computer. Racism still alive and well in 2008!

Good point Vesselar, and don't forget those types spend most of their time shooting hoops so they can run and jump probably better than you can.

Hey vesselar, stop making excuses for the perpetrators.

They get free government housing, food, healthcare and education, and yet they try to steal a hard-working man's iPhone?

He had no CHOICE but to run into the road--he was in the Broadway median, idiot.

How about people from the projects NEVER TRY TO TAKE WHAT DOESN'T BELONG TO THEM?

And no, this doesn't happen all over the world, at least not in the frequencies it does wherever there are low-income projects full of blacks.

This would not be a hate crime if this person were black, no more than it would be a hate crime if this person were Jewish, all of you racist people. The student was probably not targeted because he was Chinese, he was targeted because he had a gadget or money that the perpetrators wanted.

And for all of you "hate crime if he was black people, " you can look at white mobs chasing black people and gays to their deaths on roads in Queens if you need clarification.

There are roaming packs of awful teenagers and people of other ages all around the city and the world.

This is an awful tragedy. Hopefully whomever mugged him will get caught and fully prosecuted.

But the bigger lesson to be learned is to NEVER TRY TO ESCAPE into a ROAD.

#26 --

When you say "no reasonable grand jury will indict", do you mean to opine that it wouldn't indict for *manslaughter*, or for the commission of whatever you did in the act of defending oneself? You'd still be on the hook for NYC's law against possession of a firearm, I would think, and isn't that five-years minimum?

Unless, of course, you can prove that you're already a criminal in possession of an illegal gun, with a record an arm's length long, in which case you just plea-bargain it down and go back to robbing and killing honest citizens. What a f*cking joke.

it isn't. just some punks out to get paid on a Friday night.

late news mentioned there are cameras everywhere there and the police are looking at them.

i wait on the bus at that corner all the time. never thought it was dangerous ...

The Klan would be celebrating a Chicom Red Chinese is dead for all we know.

As an NYU student who lives on 137th, this is pretty frightening. I've never felt threatened in this neighborhood, I think it's a lot to do with how you hold yourself. Maybe I should rethink listening to my iPhone as I walk home at 4am like last night.

"Wow. Who knew the gothamist comment boards were like a Ku Klux Klan rally?"

If this were a Klan rally, wouldn't we be celebrating the death of a minority (the Chinese victim)?

My condolences go out to the family