Gothamist: Man Doused With Gas, Burned at Polo Grounds

megs

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:46:28 -0500

I agree with Dave Hogarty. I don't even get why people are interested in a stranger's sexuality. But I know that when they are, they too often respond with hate and violence.

sonyactivision

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:47:26 -0500

Where's the hipsters? How could this Burning Man Festival go unnoticed?

Dave Hogarty

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:02:21 -0500

I'm going to go out on a limb and call hate crime on this. In the linked article, Lyons is described as a homosexual who visited the Polo Grounds Towers often. The humiliating circumstances of his discovery (i.e. naked in the lobby), the predictability of his appearance there (he apparently went to parties at the bldg. with his boyfriend frequently), and the oddness of the method of attack (who has gasoline on the 16th Fl of a housing project?) screams pre-meditation to me. I'm betting this will shake out as an anti-gay crime.

Spear_Chucker

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:34:43 -0500

Where's Al Sharpton?

Snoopy

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:53:51 -0500

Please no racist comments here. People from the third world countries need affordable housing. Unfortunately they chose America to find that affordable housing. A "drug-fueled" party hmmm? Too bad the cops didn't raid it and shoot it up with all those sub-machine guns they now tote.

Think twice

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:47:20 -0500

They're our own little slice of Rwanda, Congo, Zimbabwe, and Haiti with their little warlords and little war crimes. Get all the Projects off the taxpayer's roll and put them out into the market and let the good tenants and bad tenants sort themselves out.