Comments on: NYC’s First Anti-Gay Violent Hate Crime This Month May Have Been By The NYPD http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/06/13/nyc%e2%80%99s-first-anti-gay-violent-hate-crime-this-month-may-have-been-by-the-nypd/ Hatewatch is a blog of the Southern Poverty Law Center Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: concernedcitizen http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/06/13/nyc%e2%80%99s-first-anti-gay-violent-hate-crime-this-month-may-have-been-by-the-nypd/comment-page-1/#comment-2613547 concernedcitizen Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:43:24 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=10902#comment-2613547 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.

]]> By: david bloch http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/06/13/nyc%e2%80%99s-first-anti-gay-violent-hate-crime-this-month-may-have-been-by-the-nypd/comment-page-1/#comment-2536334 david bloch Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:05:01 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=10902#comment-2536334 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.

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