California Transexual Teen Murdered

The Argus (Fremont California) ^ | October 19, 2002 | Robert Airoldi

[Dialup Llama]

>A picture of two of the perps.

I guess the positive spin here would be the diversity of the defendants.

[ambrose]

A picture of two of the perps.

Wow, a black guy and a white guy working together to murder a Transexual. I wonder what the Diversity Police have to say about this? On the one hand, it is bad that they murdered a Transexual. On the other hand, it is touching to see that the two races can work together and get along.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

"a black guy and a white guy working together"

Remember the liberals told us that education and tolerance would end this sort of thing. California has had radical leftists in charge of education for 20 years. My wife is a high school teacher and I know how much brain washing takes place and it is considerable.

The Les-Bi-Gay recruiters are on all campuses and each kid has to have massive amount of diversity training. Whites are about 50% of the local schools and there is a large Afghan community.

I fear the road we have been lead on -- leads to disaster.

[StJulian Perlmutter]

"Newark is a small bedroom community in Alameda County in the East Bay of San Francisco where murders are very rare and 17 year olds usually go to malt shops for fun." I don't know what Newark you are talking about. As a deputy in Santa Clara county, we had multiple mutual-aid calls from Newark each week.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

Maybe I'm too sheltered. I can't remember anything like this happening.

I know several Fremont police officers and they have told me about some drug related stuff that never makes the papers. The Nortenias the local Mexican gang is pretty bad but they seem to just bother other gangs.

What kind of crimes do you respond to??

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Magidson and Merel had a previous sexual encounter with Araujo before anyone suspected he wasn't a woman.

This is the key to the murder.

We don't know exactly what the "sexual encounter" was, but perhaps the two young men hit on Araujo; perhaps it even went further.

I hate to say it, but Araujo (the transvestite teen), more or less, instigated his own murder. He was playing a dangerous game by trying to deceive people.

It's natural that the two straight young men would have been shocked and horrified and angry at the deception, especially if some sort of sexual encounter had already taken place.

It's one thing to be a transvestite; it's quite another to deliberately deceive people into thinking you're a woman (or a girl), when you're not, especially when you're good-looking enough to fool people into thinking you are.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Lynching in certain well defined circumstances is acceptable social behavior and acceptable political governance. The only real risk being misidentification.

[punster]

You are right. 'Boys will be boys' does not justify sexual assault and murder.

Whether or not someone agrees with the choice made by transsexuals, does not excuse gratuitous violence.

It may well be the transsexuals are biologically predisposed to being transsexual. A study was done in the Netherlands, which suggests the brains of these individuals developed along more female patterns.

A corrolary is the clinical data on women with androgen insensitivity syndrome. Though those women are XY genotype, they are phenotypically female (though sterile). Most significant, they identify as women. The reason is a genetic trait that does not allow a response to testosterone, the male hormone.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Police began searching for Araujo when his mother reported him missing Oct. 5. She was reluctant to call police sooner because her son had previous run-ins with police, according to court records. She told police her son had a substance abuse problem.

Just your normal everyday teenager.

[rockfish59]

I'll bet the first reaction was to put out an APB on all white males driving white vans!

[BeAllYouCanBe]

"which suggests the brains of these individuals developed along more female patterns."

The study was from Holland which makes it automatically suspect. The leftist have been trying for 40 years to prove a genetic link to homosexuality and not much success.(IMO if it could be found it already would have.)

In 1963 when I was this kid's age things like this didn't happen because 17 year olds didn't dress as the opposite sex. Society was more oppressive but people got out of their goofy teen years and did productive stuff like drag racing on deserted streets.(That's as bad as the drag stuff got then.)

[BeAllYouCanBe]

"This is the key to the murder."

Right on!!

All that said it will be a hate crime instead of murder two. Some young men will spend a considerable time in prison because this crime affected a member of a protected class.

The hate crime aspect is not something that has been discussed here.

So --- SHOULD THIS BE A """ HATE-CRIME """.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

Notice that it wasn't a poor parenting problem but a substance abuse problem.

[VOA]

Wow, a black guy and a white guy working together to murder a Transexual.
I wonder what the Diversity Police have to say about this?

About the only good thing in the story of diversity is we won't hear any chorus
of "Kumbiyah".

The guys who did the killing deeserve the max and more. Thanks to pukes like this
keep diversity trainers in business and make today's workplace home to a lot
of crazy concepts.

[TheOtherOne]

Makes you wonder if this guy was "cruising" like Matthew Shepard was, i.e., seeking "the rough trade"---lifestyle which many gay men live in, in which they seek out straight men hoping to get roughed up, and they get off on it (something well-known but skillfully and intentionally omitted by media in the Shepard case.)

You apparent expertise on the GAY lifestyle is appreciated - thanks for the personal input.

[TheOtherOne]

I hate to say it, but Araujo (the transvestite teen), more or less, instigated his own murder

Your pathetic attempt to create facts so as to justify your sick conclusion speaks volumes about yourself. He instigated his own beating, killing, and being burried by showing up in a skirt?

I guess a 17 year old boy in a skirt is scarry for you, but normal people can exist in a room with people they don't like without murdering them.

[oceanperch]

Could be worse you could be a Deputy in Contra Costa and have to deal with West Pittsburg or whatever they call that town now adays.

I just went back to my home town of Pittsburg and was and saw the face lift but the cockroaches still exist they just have spread them out in the community.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

See "History of American Law", 2nd edition Lawrence Friedman. A Touchstone book-Simon & Schuster.

[bluester]

Some people never cease to amaze me with their comments and rationalizing criminal acts. It's nice to see some people still being above such mentality.

Btw, this reminds me very much about the Teena Brandon case (murder).