http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060202/ap_on_re_us/gay_bar_shooting
3 Injured. 2 from Gun shots 1 from being struck by a hatchet.
3 Injured. 2 from Gun shots 1 from being struck by a hatchet.
Justin24 said:
Question? If a Hispanic person kill's an african american it's not a hate crime
MrsSpringsteen said:
Who says it's not? I never hear anyone say that
Well there you go Irvine. Connecting the dots for you... I guess it's no surprise that a neo-Nazi would be virulently homophobic as well. And a gay bar makes a nice, convenient, readily identifiable target.In Robida's bedroom, officers found Nazi regalia and anti-Semitic writings on the wall.
Justin24 said:What if it's just to people getting in an argument and the white person kills the hispanic person in a struggle? Yet label it as a hate crime.
And a sad commentary on preceding context:from the New Bedford Standard-Times
Mr. Robida lives at 613 County St. with his mother and siblings. His mother, Stephanie Oliver, has diabetes and is going blind, the neighbor said. The neighbor said the grandmother, Evelyn Oliver, who owns the white three-decker, takes her 13-year-old granddaughter to school everyday because the mother cannot drive. Stephanie Oliver is in her 40s and is frail and disabled, the neighbor said.
Some patrons said there has been occasional low-level harassment at the bar over the years.
Puzzles has been egged, cars parked outside have had windows smashed and teenagers have thrown rocks and bricks at the building's facade for years, said Dan Sheteron, 51, who lives upstairs. Anti-gay graffiti often defaces the building.
"This doesn't surprise me," Sheteron said of the attack. "It was either going to be this or a firebomb through the front window."
A_Wanderer said:Or maybe we should oppose all hate crime legislation with equal vigour and demand the equality of null.
In Robida's room at his mother's house, police yesterday found homemade posters slurring gays, African-Americans, and Jews; neo-Nazi literature and skinhead paraphernalia; a makeshift coffin; and an empty knife sheath, according to police, prosecutors, and court documents.
U2Girl1978 said:God, I just saw this on the news. People completely suck! The suspect is on the run right now.
Amigone said:I hope he makes it, and is incapacitated enough to never lead a meaningful life and is stuck between this and the next life for a very long time.
Alternatively I hope he ends up being fine, and jailed for a very long time.
MrBrau1 said:
I hope he makes a full recovery so he can go to a nice fedral pen and be "violated" over, and over, and over.