With six other Long Island teens facing lesser charges, Jeffrey Conroy is accused in the brutal hate crime stabbing of Marcelo Luero, but his friend Will Garcia—an acquaintance of the victim—is on his side. In recent weeks prosecutors have pointed to Conroy's prison-style Swastika tattoo as an indicator of his racist ideology, but Garcia, who like Lucero is from Ecuador, told the Times, “How’s he going to be a white supremacist if he chills with Spanish people and he chills with black people? He’s my friend. He’s been there for me. I’ve been there for him. He wasn’t a racist.” more ›