Gay man stabbed to death at Brooklyn gas station in possible hate crime killing

[Auburn85 438]

 

[DKW 86 7,946]

Killed for dancing...Lord help us...

[aubiefifty 18,448]

37 minutes ago, DKW 86 said:

Killed for dancing...Lord help us...

he was killed because of hate bro. maybe dancing got his murderers attention but with all the crap about gays and trans it is if they are trying to hold open season.

[LPTiger 5,533]

14 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

he was killed because of hate bro. maybe dancing got his murderers attention but with all the crap about gays and trans it is if they are trying to hold open season.

Fifty aren't the majority of all murders the result of some form of hate.   Everyone needs more Jesus in their lives.

[aubiefifty 18,448]

4 minutes ago, LPTiger said:

Fifty aren't the majority of all murders the result of some form of hate.   Everyone needs more Jesus in their lives.

yes but it is worse when the right drags them through the news and the hate crimes go up. this is my point. and some of your jesus folks do not care or like gays or trannies. hell you should know that by reading the boards here. you can tell people about jesus but you cannot make them love everyone like he does. even if you claim to be a follower.

[LPTiger 5,533]

1 minute ago, aubiefifty said:

yes but it is worse when the right drags them through the news and the hate crimes go up. this is my point. and some of your jesus folks do not care or like gays or trannies. hell you should know that by reading the boards here. you can tell people about jesus but you cannot make them love everyone like he does. even if you claim to be a follower.

I agree that some people who profess to have a relationship with Jesus are not good people.   But what that says, is not that Jesus is bad but, that they are bad and truly don't have that relationship.   Jesus loves everyone, even those who mock him and the Bible.   He will love them until they take their last breath and will forever be hoping that they will change just like the man who was on the cross beside him. 

[aubiefifty 18,448]

1 minute ago, LPTiger said:

I agree that some people who profess to have a relationship with Jesus are not good people.   But what that says, is not that Jesus is bad but, that they are bad and truly don't have that relationship.   Jesus loves everyone, even those who mock him and the Bible.   He will love them until they take their last breath and will forever be hoping that they will change just like the man who was on the cross beside him. 

i agree on jesus. but at the same time i will not lie. i do not love nor care for trump. he hurts people and he is always suggesting menace and i am so sick of it. he might forgive me or not. but when someone is hurting the country and the people in it and firing up  the racists i believe it is our duty to speak out.

[I_M4_AU 9,058]

1 hour ago, aubiefifty said:

i agree on jesus. but at the same time i will not lie. i do not love nor care for trump. he hurts people and he is always suggesting menace and i am so sick of it. he might forgive me or not. but when someone is hurting the country and the people in it and firing up  the racists i believe it is our duty to speak out.

Surely you’re not blaming Trump for this incident are you?

[Auburn85 438]

https://apnews.com/article/dancer-stabbed-hate-crime-brooklyn-gas-station-70e34e697d44b22c647cb7139030adf5

 

 

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Lawyer says suspect, charged with hate crime, may argue self-defense in dancer’s death

By JENNIFER PELTZ

Updated 1:37 PM CDT, August 11, 2023

 

NEW YORK (AP) — A 17-year-old pleaded not guilty Friday to hate-motivated murder in a stabbing that followed a clash over men dancing, and his lawyer said the youth “regrets what happened” and may argue he was defending himself.

Charged as an adult, Dmitriy Popov was being held without bail after his arraignment in the killing of O’Shae Sibley, a professional dancer.

Prosecutors say the killing was fueled by bigotry that was trained on Sibley and his friends as they cut loose to a Beyoncé song while pumping gas at a Brooklyn filling station. Sibley, 28, was stabbed after he and a couple of his friends confronted the defendant “to speak out and protect himself and his friends from anti-gay and anti-Black slurs,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Thursday.

“Defending yourself from the anti-gay or anti-Black comments, arguing back, it’s not a cause for someone to take a weapon and do what was done in this case,” the prosecutor said.

But Popov’s lawyer, Mark Pollard, said Friday that it was his understanding that his client didn’t say anything hateful during the confrontation and was backing away when the trio of older, taller men approached.

 

“I strongly suspect that we will be going self defense and that he had a reasonable grounds to reasonably believe that he had to defend himself in this situation,” Pollard said outside court.

“He regrets what happened, certainly, but it doesn’t mean that he’s guilty of a crime,” the attorney added.

After a beach outing, Sibley and four friends stopped for gas, and one of them started dancing, prosecutors said. Popov and a few other people came out of the gas station’s store and assailed the dancers with anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs, essentially telling them to “get that gay s—t out of here,” according to prosecutors.

Trying to defuse the tension, Sibley and his friends responded that they were just enjoying themselves and had the same right to be there as did those sneering at them, prosecutors said.

Security camera videos showed the two groups exchanging words for a few minutes. Both sides walked away, though one stayed behind, recording on his phone. Sibley and two friends returned and confronted the youth, and Sibley followed him as he walked toward a sidewalk and out of the frame.

Video shows the two reappear as Sibley rushes toward the youth, who darts around him, and both again disappear from view. A moment later, Sibley walks backward into the frame, checking his side, then collapses to the sidewalk.

Sibley was from Philadelphia, where about 200 people attended his funeral Tuesday and friend Otis Pena called him “a beacon of light for a lot of us in our community.” Politicians and celebrities including Beyoncé and Spike Lee have paid tribute to Sibley since his death.

Sibley used dance to celebrate his LGBTQ identity in works such as “Soft: A Love Letter to Black Queer Men,” choreographed by Kemar Jewel. Sibley performed with the Philadelphia-based dance company Philadanco and took classes with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Ailey Extension program in New York.

Popov, a high school senior, was born in the U.S. to a family of Russian origin, his attorney said. He described his client as a “level-headed” teen who holds two jobs and attends church.

The youth’s relatives declined to comment on the case as they left court.

 

 

 

[The Freak 2,559]

On 8/6/2023 at 12:06 PM, I_M4_AU said:

Surely you’re not blaming Trump for this incident are you?

Not sure if serious, lol.

[icanthearyou 4,468]

On 8/6/2023 at 10:32 AM, LPTiger said:

Jesus loves everyone, even those who mock him and the Bible.

Interesting.  Is the Bible equal to,,, above Jesus?

What is used to attack those who are different?  The words of Jesus or, the words of apostles/prophets?

Edited August 11, 2023 by icanthearyou

[I_M4_AU 9,058]

1 hour ago, The Freak said:

Not sure if serious, lol.

Fifty is obsessed with Trump and not in a good way.

[aubiefifty 18,448]

On 8/6/2023 at 12:06 PM, I_M4_AU said:

Surely you’re not blaming Trump for this incident are you?

no but i can if you are disappointed ..................