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NYC’s First Anti-Gay Violent Hate Crime This Month May Have Been By The NYPD

The New Civil Rights Movement.Com

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June 10, 2013

Members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) are being accused of anti-LGBT violence in what may be the first report in June. New York City recently has seen a spike in anti-gay hate crime violence, more than doubling this year over the same period last year. In May, there were eleven victims of anti-LGBT violence, and for the year, there have been almost 30.

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  1. david bloch said,

    on June 18th, 2013 at 10:05 am

    Not unusual for police anywhere, and not at all unusual for the NYPD. The person taking this video should not have, in my opinion, have done anything more that quietly made his video, asked for the officer’s names and badge numbers, and made a formal complaint the next day. He may have mitigated the opportunity to have these officer’s sanctioned, suspended, charged with assault and possibly fired, by his provocative speech. He is also lucky he wasn’t assaulted by the cops and his video recording devise taken from him.
    I often marvel at how police frequently revel in the chance to make a minor problem much worse, or create a problem where their was none.
    This sort of incident highlights the need for constant surveillance of the police, such that their every interaction and every activity is recorded and reviewed by superior officers and civilian boards.
    Please note that I don’t address the issue of attempting the officers in question to rethink their attitudes towards gay people. What can be better and more successfully addressed is forced change in behavior. Also, forcing changes in behavior makes people alot safer, faster than hoping police change their attitudes.

  2. concernedcitizen said,

    on July 8th, 2013 at 1:43 am

    No one has a right to beat on another person especially for the alleged accusation of public urination. That’s ridiculous.

    As for the video, I can only say that when a crime is being committed it is an intelligent thing to record and tape it. Sometimes it really does take a large court case and huge judgements to help people to see the light.

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