Comments on: Murderer of gay man not to be charged with hate crime

By: SexInChurch

SexInChurch — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:09:14 +0000

“looked at him in a flirty way”! Now we have homophobes interpreting looks. Wait ’til he gets locked up with the big bubba’s staring at his crotch all day long. Bet he doesn’t say a thing about that, huh? Willock is going to the penetration nation, prison! Justice will be ‘meated’-out, so to speak. He’ll think Duncanson was a choir boy after a year in prison. Hey! Mr. Willock, can you say booty call?

By: kujie

kujie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:32:18 +0000

What! That is horrible! What do these people need to have something called a hate crime?

By: ludwig

ludwig — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:55:10 +0000

This is just disgusting. This was a hate crime and the folks there know it. Unlike the South; New York has hate crime laws–why were these not enforced? This seems to be a pattern dating back at least to the days when Dan White murdered Harvey Milk and then murdered Moscone. What did he get? A measily 5 years or about for a double murder when most others would have recieved the death penalty or life. The rule seems to be murder any straight person and you will get life or the death penalty. Murder a gay person or even two and all you will get will be about 5 years and certainly not more than 15 of which you will only do 5 years.
This is as much a hate crime as the lynching of Emmet Till, a black boy in the late 1950s who admired a white woman in Mississippi. When the white bigots heard about this they came for Emmet, beat him to a pulp and then tried to drown him.

By: warren

warren — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:58:48 +0000

The judge is so off. By the murderers own admission its a hate crime.

By: Krindle

Krindle — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:28:10 +0000

@ Menstruator

If you want to take that simplistic view, then NO! Every crime is not a hate crime. Would you call stealing, litering, or extortion a hate crime?

When somone is attacked specifically because of their race, religion, or orientation…that is a crime based soley on hate. Not a prior history, a disagreement, or a crime to benefit the criminal.

By: The Menstruator

The Menstruator — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:45:42 +0000

Isn’t every crime a hate crime?

By: equalityboy81

equalityboy81 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:22:24 +0000

Did you really expect him to be charged with a hate crime? This is the United States. All the more reason they need a federal hate crime law protecting gender, all sexual orientations, perceived sexual orientations and real or perceived gender identity or expression.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:59:20 +0000

“Willock began yelling homophobic epithets at Duncanson after he thought Duncanson had looked at him in a flirty way.”

It sounds like this murder wouldn’t have happened if not for Willock’s homophobia. I think that should be enough to establish a hate crime. This would be consistent with discrimination law. If New York’s hate crimes statute doesn’t provide this, then maybe the statute needs to be strengthened.