Posted on 05/11/2008 10:55:57 AM PDT by Red Steel
CHICAGO (CBS) ― Activists fear gay African-Americans are being targeted for murder. Two openly gay men were killed recently on the South Side, as CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
African-American gay and lesbian groups are talking about the murders of two openly gay Black men in the past month.
On November 17, 24-year-old Larry Bland was shot to death in his Englewood home. Bland, a security guard at Northwestern Hospital was shot more than once after struggling with a man who had entered the house through an unlocked basement door.
Then on December 23, 47-year-old Donald Young, the choir director at Trinity United Church of Christ, was shot multiple times in his South Side apartment. His roommate found his body.
"We're calling on the police department to let the community know what's going on," said Marc Loveless of the Coalition for Justice and Respect. "Are we under attack? Is this a serial killer?"
Chicago Police Department Acting Sept. Dana Starks said, "I understand the concerns of any group, any community when it comes to homicide. As of right now, I cannot say whether there is a connection."
The media services director of the church where Donald Young taught and led the choir, said, "Young did live an openly gay lifestyle; that was his choice."
But she went on to call the Loveless statement, "self-serving." She also said the police are doing everything they can.
The brother of victim Larry Bland says if the murder was a hate crime, he would not be surprised.
"Englewood? Come on. That's why a lot of gay guys won't come out, because they fear for something like this to happen," said Bland's brother, Lynn.
Starks says that "at this time" there is no evidence the murders were hate crimes. But he told CBS 2, the investigations are still underway.
“says if the murder was a hate crime, he would not be surprised.”
Anybody ever heard of a “love crime”?
bwahahahahahahaha! African-American-Gay-Nation-of-Islam-Black-Panther-Man-Boy-Lovers UNITE! (not literally).
Big mark
Larry Sinclair (so he says) had been talking with Donald Young.
Sure, crime committed in a fit of jealous rage.
In fact, that’s most likely the main competing theory the police will look at.
Oh man, will we need to start a “Obamao Associates who have died” list ala the Clinton Dead Pool from the 90’s?
An aside...When will people learn that they have to EARN respect?
Since when is an interrupted attempted burglary a hate crime???
Maybe the flamboyant hand signals were thought to be a new gang sign.....Oh snap.,
This stuff drives me to cuss and yell because all human beings are equal when it comes to murder! My brother was murdered and the guy who killed him was full of hate but it was not a hate crime because he was straight! So what our country has done is make one persons’ death more important because he has sex different than other people! Damn that’s just immoral!
But not posted.
And not a single murder of a gay black man since. More breathless, unfounded speculation presented as fact by a group that wants to score political points. Par for the course for Liberals.
Dead men tell no tales — and is BHO really is the Jim McGreevy type he seems to be....
So the insinuation here is that Obama is having his gay friends bumped off?
Wow...that does make some sort of sense as a theory anyway, granted mere speculation, but some nice train of thought stuff.
Yup. Do an Internet search on ‘Donald Young’ but do not use the Google News search category since they are censoring his name, and follow the link posted on #15 of this thread.
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