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An openly-gay Queens man is in a medically-induced coma after a brutal Friday morning beating which police are investigating as a hate crime. 49-year-old Jack Price was leaving a 24-hour deli in College Point around 3 a.m. when he was attacked by two men who allegedly screamed anti-gay slurs during the assault. Yesterday police arrested 26-year-old Daniel Aleman and have charged him with assault and aggravated assault as a hate crime; the second suspect remains at large.
Before losing consciousness, Price told family members that the suspects followed him from the store calling him a "faggot," and Aleman allegedly boasted during the beating, "My father is a C.O. [correction officer]. You will never do anything to us." (It has not yet been confirmed that Aleman's father is in fact a correction officer.) Price's sister-in-law tells the Daily News, "Look what they did to him because he is gay. It is in God's hands right now. There is nothing more they can do for him." In July, two men were arrested for beating a transgender female in St. Albans, Queens.
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I doubt your correction officer daddy will be able to stop you from being assraped in prison, Mr. Aleman.
'Hate' crimes are garbage and one sided anyway.
Defending unwarranted assault makes you just as bad as these violent thugs.
I never said that. Charge them with assault, not a 'thought crime'.
So, s0me g0d, you're saying they 'thought' the guy into a coma? If they did what they did because they thought Jack Price was gay, then they contribute to a climate of fear, hate, and violence that jeapardises the safety and violates the inalienable right to liberty of every gay and gay-perceived person on the street.
And, by the way, hate crimes laws are not 'one-sided.' They provide enhanced penalties for assaults to any one the basis of sexual orientation (or race, religion, etc.) whether gay or straight. If they seem one-sided, its because assaults against gays are one-sided. One doesn't often hear of gays attacking straights because of their sexual orientation.
If properly investigated and established, like any crime, hate crimes are not "garbage."
They recognize a form of domestic terrorism -- that some crimes are committed with the specific intent of sending a message to a particular sub-group of a population.
Committing a murder after carefully planning it is considered a worse crime than killing someone in the heat of the moment, and is punished accordingly. Assaulting someone with the intent of sending a message of fear to everyone else like them is a worse crime than simple assault, and is also punished accordingly.
Hate crime laws are simply a way to bring additional charges against someone to recognize the greater severity of their crime.
I know Danny Rodriguez, I have known him for 5 years and we are close friends. What Danny did was wrong and it was a mistake to take his actions to that extreme and I cant believe Danny hurt this man the way he did. That being said, Danny didn't beat Jack Price because he was gay, he beat him becuase Jack was writing a graffiti message at the deli with his phone number, offering gay sexual acts. This was not the first time Jack has done this because I have seen similar writings by him around College Point and in Flushing. Others have seen them too. Danny saw him writing the graffiti, asked him to stop and Jack blew him a kiss. They then got into a verbal arguement and Danny lost his temper and decided to take actions into his own hands. Danny already knew Jack because I have heard Danny talk about him before and the things Jack has done in the neighborhood. Danny would not attack an innocent man buying cigarettes just because he is gay and I know this. I know Danny and he is a good kid but he has made some stupid decisions and what he did to Jack was not ok. The bottom line is Danny Rodriguez did not beat Jack Price just beacuse he is gay.
I know it's much more difficult when you know the people involved, but you are trying to assert that he beat a man nearly to death simply for writing graffiti?
Maybe Danny Rodriguez didn't go out that day hunting for gay people to beat, but if Price had been writing "For the best pizza in Flushing" and had not allegedly "blown him a kiss," Danny still would have beaten him nearly to death?
Again, I'm sorry it's someone you know, but I think it's hard to say that Price's sexual orientation played no part in the nature or severity of this crime.