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Murder Charge Filed in Puerto Rico Teen Slaying
Associated Press
/November 18, 2009
Murder charges were filed in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case.
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on November 19th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
How could they not make this a hate crime case?
on November 19th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I am glad that the charge is murder. It seems to me that a lot of people think that a hate crime is the charge for insulting someone by name-calling.
Maybe we should change that crime’s name to express the truth that the perpetrators are lying in wait and/or conspiring to permanently injure or kill a person.
on November 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
The FBI will list suspect Matos, a Hispanic, as a white perpetrtor.
However, Matos, as well as the victim in this case will be classified as Hispanic if they were both vcitms of a hate cirme.
Thereby inflaring the number of white hate crime perpetrators and minimizing whites as victims.
on November 20th, 2009 at 9:52 am
well whats taking so long. Don’t they know hate when they are confronted with it. Just because the victem was gay does not make this any harder to scream HATE CRIME than any other disgusting things the hate filled groups have planned
on November 21st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Shame that Puerto Rico doesn’t have the guts to call this exactly what it is.