‘Horrifying’ Anti-Gay Attacks Stun The Bronx « CBS New York- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NYI don't question these punks (assuming they are guilty) need to be put away for many moons. However, the Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings, and other gangs have been doing this and worse for years. Why is it "horrifying" now when it's a gay man...as opposed the attack is on a straight white woman. And how will a weekend rally on anti-gay bias help...and would their be a weekend rally against gang violence if the man were straight. I think we know the answer.
Commish: NYPD Arrests 7 Members Of 'Latin King Goonies'
NEW YORK (CBS 2/ 1010WINS/ AP) – Police have arrested seven individuals ranging in age from 16 to 23 for their roles in alleged anti-gay attacks Sunday.
...“I don’t understand how people can do that to another human being whether he’s gay, whatever he is,” resident Geovany Rodriguez told CBS 2’s John Metaxas.
The alleged bloody beatings happened on Osborne Place early Sunday. Police said members of a gang known as the “Latin King Goonies” lured a 17-year-old into an unoccupied ground floor apartment.
“He was thrown into a wall, made to strip naked, hit in the head with a beer can, cut with a box cutter, and sodomized with the wooden handle of a plunger,” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Police said the gang questioned the teen about his contact with a 30-year-old man, and then let him go with a warning not to call police.
Two other brutal attacks would follow — first on another 17-year-old, and then the 30-year-old himself, who was allegedly lured to the scene.
“He was forced to strip to his underwear and then tied to a chair opposite from the teenager. The teenager, at the direction of his assailants, hit the older male several times in the face and burned him with a cigarette. The assailants also hit the man with their fists and a chain, and sodomized him with a small baseball bat,” Kelly said.
Kelly said after dumping him unconscious the assailants went on to their next victim — the man’s brother who lived nearby.
“Five assailants let themselves into his apartment through the front door, with keys taken from his brother. They pulled a blanket over the older brother’s head, beat him, and demanded money,” Kelly said.
The victims were eventually freed, hospitalized and treated.
The assailants scrubbed the scene top-to-bottom with bleach, even repainting the walls to make it look new, police said.
“They could clean, but they couldn’t hide,” Kelly said.
Investigators said they still found alcohol cans and hair at the scene. And an onlooker slipped a phone number to detectives, leading them to the primary suspect. The victims, initially reluctant, also started to divulge more details about the assaults, Kelly said. The Hate Crimes Task Force took over the investigation, along with Bronx robbery and gang division and special victims squad and arrested the seven men.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the city’s highest-ranking openly gay official, called the attacks “vile” and “horrifying.”
“These attacks are appalling and are even more despicable because the victims were clearly targeted in acts of hate simply because they are gay,” Quinn said. “The cowardly few who committed these crimes do not represent New Yorkers and our community will not be cowed by such violence.”
A weekend rally on anti-gay bias was planned following other crimes against gays.
On Sunday, a patron at the Stonewall Inn, a symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was beaten in an anti-gay bias attack, according to prosecutors. Two suspects in the case were charged. Their attorneys say they’re not guilty.
That attack followed the Sept. 22 death of a New Jersey college student, who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his sexual encounter with a man in his dorm room was secretly streamed online. The student’s roommate and another freshman have been charged with invasion of privacy. Authorities are considering bias-crime charges.
Also look at the ages...a 16 year old was involved in this crap. I'll lay money this wasn't his first time at bat in this gang stuff. Maybe people should start looking at the way they are raising their kids and maybe these issues will be handled before they get to this.
Gang members are punks. When driving a cab I routinely pass by those that "have the look." (gangsters not gays)Is that racist or non inclusive? If so, then I plead guilty as charged. On a further note, I will usually go out of my way to work the "gay" area of town. That is where the money often is.
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ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t call it bias but good judgment. Seeing a gang banger (and we both know what to look for with the Houstons or Bloods) would make one want to not take them on a ride. More than a few cabbies have been robbed in Houston.
One thing I should have emphasized was how violent and vicious gangs have gotten in the last few decades. The gangs of the Godfather and Al Capone era had some standards and killing someone was a drastic act…now it’s an initiation rite. Can’t be too careful these days with these punks.
Good to hear you found a good place for your business...safe and the money's there!