Photo of victim: New York Times
This whole issue is well “gay”. The press was all over this event. Anthony Fortunato, 21, was accused of chasing down and beating to death Michael Sandy in a robbery. Since Michael “happened to be gay” Anthony was charged with a “hate crime” because everyone knows that non-gays like to chase down gay men, rob them and then beat them to death.
Or so the press seems to put it. That was the whole purpose of hate crime laws… to give unequal protection under the law. A new twist has entered the arena on this event. It turns out that Anthony also “happens to be gay”. So now we have a gay man charged with a hate crime for killing another gay.
Just to prove our point…. Crime is crime. People commit it not because they love one another. So do away with the hate crime (stupid) legislation and charge people accordingly. It matters now what orientation the person who committed the crime is or the one who it was committed against.
(New York Times) One of the defendants accused of killing a gay man in Brooklyn last year because of his sexual orientation offered a startling courtroom revelation yesterday: He, too, is gay.
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