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Hate Crimes: 25-Year-Old Kentucky Man Beaten Until He Was Unconscious By Several Men Outside Gay Bar

No more hate crimes ! We think only undercover homos beat on gay men because gay men represent what they hate about themselves. Gay Man Beat Viciously Outside Bar According to WCPO A Northern Kentucky man says several men viciously beat him outside a Columbus, Ohio bar Thursday evening because he is gay. Chris Ashcraft, 25, says he was smoking outside a bar in Ohio’s capital when a man came up to him and asked for help with his car around 9:30 p.m. Instead of a thank you for his assistance, the Crescent Springs resident was attacked by several men who left him unconscious in an alley outside Southbend Tavern in Merion Village. “I was taken by surprise. I don’t really remember much from that point on,” Ashcraft said, recounting what he could remember of the incident. “When I was on the ground they kicked me in the face until I was unconscious. My guess, it was an hour to an hour and a half until I woke up.” While Ashcraft claims he doesn’t recall all of the events that occurred that evening, he said one thing is clear: He was targeted because he is gay. “It was a hate crime,” Ashcraft said. “I was hanging out at a gay bar. It’s Pride Month.” Columbus police confirm they are investigating the attack as a robbery because the men took Ashcraft’s wallet. However, they are stopping short of calling the incident a hate crime because there isn’t enough evidence to validate the claim. Ashcraft hopes surveillance video taken around the bar captured the men that attacked him. Columbus police said Saturday evening they don’t have any suspects in the case. Not enough information to constitute a hate crime? Hmmm. At least he survived. Some of these hate crime victims don’t make it.

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Hate Crimes: Two Men Arrested For Raping 23-Year-Old Gay Man With Beer Bottles And Smashing His Skull With A Stone Until He Died

Yet another hate crime against a gay man. SMH. 23-Year-Old Man Raped And Tortured To Death According to Raw Story A 23-year-old man has been tortured to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators said Sunday, amid growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country. The victim’s battered and naked body was found in the courtyard of an apartment building in the southern city of Volgograd on Friday morning, said a spokeswoman for regional investigators. The young man had suffered numerous injuries, including to the genitalia, and had been sexually assaulted with several beer bottles. “He was raped with beer bottles and had his skull smashed with a stone,” Natalia Kunitskaya, a spokeswoman for the Volgograd region branch of the Investigative Committee, told AFP. She confirmed the attack was believed to have been a hate crime, in a rare admission from Russian law enforcement agencies on the sensitive issue of homophobia in the country. Two men aged 22 and 27 have been detained in connection with the attack, the Moscow-based Investigative Committee said in a statement on Saturday. One of the suspects has a criminal history, investigators said. The victim was said to have been drinking with the two men, apparently while celebrating Victory Day which Russia marks on May 9. Regional investigator Andrei Gapchenko told Echo of Moscow radio on Saturday that two men started beating the victim after he told them he was gay. The Investigative Committee’s tersely-worded statement said investigators had opened a murder probe, without commenting on possible motives for the killing. Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993 and officially removed it from the list of psychiatric disorders in 1999. But homophobia remains widespread and socially acceptable, and almost no public figures have come out as gay. Several Russian regions have outraged rights campaigners by approving local laws banning “gay propaganda” among minors, in legislation which is now being discussed at the federal parliament. President Vladimir Putin, who prides himself on his macho image, has repeatedly denied that Russia was violating gay rights. But he recently warned that Russia could change agreements for the adoption of Russian children with Western countries that are legalising gay marriage, such as France. Nikolai Alexeyev, the head of Gay Russia, a group working to raise the profile of gay rights, expressed concern that the Kremlin’s official rhetoric and recent legislative initiatives could be fuelling intolerance. “Homophobic hysteria is being increasingly promoted in Russia,” he told AFP. He said attacks against homosexuals are widespread in the country but are almost never investigated as hate crimes. This homophobic hysteria is so 1983. Shutterstock

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Race Matters: Mexican Gang Bangers Indicted For Hate Crimes Against Black Family In Compton

Remember these guys ? Looks like they could be headed to the pen soon enough for trying to drive out an innocent black family in Compton. Via L.A. Times reports : Two Latino gang members have been indicted for hate crimes in Compton after a violent attack targeting four African Americans there. A federal grand jury Thursday indicted Jeffrey Aguilar and Efren Marquez Jr. on five felony counts. The indictment alleges they are members of Compton Varrio 155, a gang that seeks to drive blacks out of West Compton. Prosecutors contend the pair conspired to violate the civil rights of a family and a friend of the family by committing hate crimes. “Hate-fueled crimes have no place in our society,” U.S. Atty. Andre Birotte said Friday. “No one should have to look over their shoulder in fear because of who they are.” “They specifically spewed hate words during the attacks,” he said. “Compton 155 has a specific credo of ridding African Americans from this neighborhood.” On New Year’s Eve, the two alleged gang members confronted a young African American man walking down the street and confronted him, asking if he was a gang member. They then they began yelling “NK over here” at the man — the N referring to a racial epithet and the K to killer–a phrase the gang uses in its effort to drive blacks from the area, prosecutors say. The pair and two others then chased the victim down the street, yelling “155.” Aguilar and another suspect then hit the young man repeatedly in the head and body with a metal pipe, prosecutors said. The 17-year-old man ran to his girlfriend’s home, where members of her family were located. Aguilar and Marquez allegedly followed the victim. Once the victim went inside, 14 or 15 members of the Latino gang gathered outside, yelling racial slurs, prosecutors said. We sincerely hope these two are punished to the fullest extent of the law. It just ain’t right, after all Black people have been through in this country, to be treated like this.

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Gay: Lance Bass On Chris Brown “Being A Black Man He Should Know The ‘F’ Word Is Just Like Calling You The ‘N’ Word!!!”

Former N’Sync singer Lance Bass is calling Breezy out for being a gay hater . Via Celebuzz reports : Lance Bass is calling Chris Brown out — about a certain word the R&B star should toss from his vernacular. After a history of the letting the word “f**got” fly, whether it be in his hit “Look At Me Now” or an alleged attack on a fan, Brown has again come under fire for the homophobic slur. In the wake of Brown’s brawl with hip-hop artist Frank Ocean in late January, Ocean — who came out in late July — revealed to investigators that he was called the “f” word by a member of Breezy’s crew during the fray. And that simply doesn’t sit well with the openly gay Bass. “Calling people fa**ot and that stuff, I mean, he may not even mean what he means, but it’s a derogatory term that people throw out there and without even knowing why they are saying it,” Bass told Celebuzz. “But when it comes to Frank Ocean and knowing that he’s … very out … it was definitely meant to hurt him. It’s never good to throw those words out there that mean so much.” And it upsets Bass all the more that the slur is being thrown around by a minority. “[Brown] should understand that being a black man himself. He should know that the F word is just like calling you the N word in a very derogatory way,” Bass said. “When you come from a minority like that, being gay or black or whatever, it’s like there should be an understanding, like we all get each other. But you don’t see that a lot, which is really sad.” Given Brown’s brushes with the law — dating back to his 2009 felony assault of recently reconciled girlfriendRihanna — Bass sees the singer striding down a bad path. “I think there are a lot of people out there that have anger issues, and you can definitely see that in Chris Brown. I hope he gets the help he needs,” said the former ‘N Sync member, who now hosts a live SiriusXM radio show called Dirty Pop with Lance Bass. “I hope Rihanna understands what she is in. I see it happen so many times in couples, where it’s like an abusive relationship and you don’t know it’s an abusive relationship.” “I know he’s just doing some dumb moves right now,” Bass continued. “I think he needs to take responsibility for it. I don’t know if it’s drugs and alcohol and that type of stuff, but I really hope he comes to think that he’s really making dumb decisions right now.” “I think everyone can change, [and] I hope that he can change his tune. [But] we have all seen he hasn’t rehabilitated himself whatsoever,” Bass said. “But you look at Lindsay Lohan and different celebrities that keep getting in trouble and keep getting in trouble. There is obviously a problem there. Really, the only way to solve that is, you are going to have to go to jail. They are going to put you locked up for a long time for you to really learn a lesson.” Lance does have a point. Breezy, do you hear him though? He’s saying you are in the same league as Lindsay Lohan! WENN

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Hate Crimes: Latino Gang Members Popped After Attacking Black Family With Guns And Metal Pipes “N-Words Don’t Belong In Compton!”

Latinos vs. Blacks Latino Gang Members Arrested For Hate Crimes Three Latino men have been arrested in suspicion of a terrifying hate crime committed against an African-American family. The suspects allegedly brought 15 to 20 gang members to surround the house, telling the family that it couldn’t live in the predominantly Latino neighborhood. Via HuffPo reports : Jeffrey Aguilar, 19, Efren Marquez, 21, and a teenage juvenile were arrested on Jan. 24 for committing the alleged hate crime in Compton, Los Angeles, according to the LA Sheriff’s Department. Shortly after an African-American family moved onto 154th Street, one of the male family members, while walking home on Dec. 31, was approached by four Latino men in an SUV. As the police describe the horrific event: The men identified themselves as members of a local street gang and told the victim that he and his family were not allowed to live in the area because they are Black. The gang members continually shouted racial epithets and threats of violence towards the victim. Fearing for his life, the victim ran home but was chased by the gang members who exited the vehicle and began beating the victim with metal pipes. One of the suspects, 21-year-old Suspect Efren Marquez, allegedly pointed a gun at the victim and threatened to shoot him while he was allegedly being beaten with a metal pipe by 19-year-old Suspect Jeffrey Aguilar. After the attack, the gang members fled in the vehicle. Marquez and Aguilar returned 30 minutes later with a group of 15-20 gang members, who surrounded the front of the victims’ home shouting racial epithets and telling them that members of the African American race (using the ‘n-word’) were not allowed to live in the neighborhood. One unidentified member of the group threw a large beer bottle through the front living room window, shattering the window. Both Suspect Marquez and Aguilar were reportedly armed with handguns. And the suspects allegedly continued to drive by the home several times a day, shouting racial slurs while ordering the family to leave the neighborhood — until the family finally did. Compton is a neighborhood with a history of racial violence. Part of the current tension stems from the neighborhood demographics changing from predominantly African-American to heavily Latino. The gang allegedly involved in this hateful act is known to commit racially-motivated crimes. “This gang has always made it clear they have a racial hatred for black people,” Lt. Richard Westin told the Los Angeles Times. “They repeatedly used racial epithets, they use racial hatred graffiti and they tag up the black church a lot.” What the hell?? Brown is brown, we are all supposed to be on the same side! Well, damn…these amigos might as well join those hooded cowards down south!

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Where Are My Parents? 17-Year-Old Racist Alabama Teen Planned Hate Crime Bombings At His High School

Adam Lanza inspired an Alabama teen to plot out a hate crime against his black classmates and a faculty member. Fortunately he was caught in time. Via WTVM reports : Police say 17-year-old Derek Shrout is a self-proclaimed white su******ist who wanted to commit hate crimes at Russell County high school with homemade explosives. Had his book of plans not been carelessly left where a teacher could find it, the sheriff says no one may have discovered the plot until it was too late. “The journal contained several plans that looked like potential terrorist attacks, and attacks of violence and danger on the school. And in particular, there were six students specifically named, and one teacher,” said Russell County sheriff, Heath Taylor. After the teacher who found his journal notified authorities, police searched his home and found dozens of tobacco containers filled with shrapnel and holes drilled for fuses. Investigators say Shrout was a step away from turning them into live grenades. “These bombs are potential; they’re not complete. So we don’t want to indicate that he was ready to do something. It could have been a day later, potentially,” said Taylor. Police say they don’t believe his parents had any idea this was happening. Newsleader Nine contacted Shrout’s mother at his Fort Mitchell home but she did not want to make a statement. When Shrout was interrogated by authorities, his explanation to them was that he had written a work of fiction and he never meant to carry out the plans in real life. The sheriff disagrees. “It was obvious that he had put a lot of thought into this. It was obvious to us that there was more than just writing a story in a journal and it being fictitious,” said Taylor. Officials say the earliest entries in the journal were written three days after the massacre in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. They believe Shrout learned to make the explosives through internet research. Shrout is currently in the Russell County Jail, charged as an adult. He will be in court Monday to face a felony charge of attempted assault.

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