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We are a bunch of rapscallions ger, and Maple Cheddar Cheese who get together fi ve times a semester to put out a rag that makes people laugh, cry, get pissed, and—we hope—makes people think. If you don’t like it, shut your pie hole (or come write for us)! october 13, 2010 the paper page 3 news Bronx Gang Targets Homosexuals In Hate-Crime Violence New Yorkers Reel in Wake of Attacks by Alexander Gibbons man’s throat before dumping the Latin Kings street gang, oppose hatred in all its forms,” carpet and linoleum fl ooring, CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF his unconscious body outside of which also operates throughout said Diaz, Jr. hoping to eliminate all forms of utrage is pouring out all his home. A fourth victim, the the Bronx. Several of the younger gang trace evidence. A break came, Oover New York City after brother of the 30-year-old, was City Council speaker Chris- members involved in the attacks however, when an anonymous the news broke that three Bronx attacked and robbed in his own tine Quinn said that she could claim that they were forced by individual slipped a note with men were brutally tortured last home. not recall a New York City older members to take part in the information about the assailants weekend by nine members of The eight suspects that are in crime more villainous and dis- violence, and were threatened to a police offi cer outside the the Latin King Goonies. The custody are being charged with gusting. Quinn, who is openly a with the same sort of violence Morris Heights apartment. men, who were targeted for be- kidnapping, robbery, unlawful lesbian, remarked that the vio- were they to refuse. Confused Such violence, ignorance, ing homosexual, were held hos- imprisonment, and sodomy. All lence is “even more despicable family members, refusing to and hatred, especially at the tage in a vacant Morris Heights charges are being levied as hate because the victims were clearly believe their sons could become close of Fordham’s Coming Out home last weekend and subject- crimes. Police are still searching targeted in acts of hate simply involved in such sadistic brutal- week and just before the Na- ed to acts of savagery for sev- for a fi nal suspect, Ruddy Var- because they are gay.” Mayor ity, have spoken out on behalf of tional Coming Out Day is a so- eral hours. Eight of the suspects gas-Perez, who remains at large. Bloomberg also condemned the boys’ innocence. The Morris bering reminder that we do not are in police custody Savage group beatings are the attacks, saying that he “was Heights neighborhood is home live in a city that is 100% gay- Gang leader Ildefonso Men- characteristic of gang initia- sickened by the brutal nature of to many gay residents. One, a friendly. These recent attacks dez organized the torture upon tions, but this recent act was a [the] crimes and saddened by 16-year-old named Natty Marti- are only the latest in a frenzy hearing that one of the victims, cowardly and vicious reac- the anti-gay bias that contribut- nez, says she never had a prob- of anti-gay violence through- a 17-year-old potential recruit, lem with the young- out New York. Last weekend, a is a homosexual. Early reports er members of the man was robbed and beaten out- claim the victim was lured into gang. “They were side of a gay bar in the Village the abandoned apartment under chill,” said Mar- by two men shouting anti-gay the guise that he was attending tinez, “there was slurs, and last month a Rutgers an initiation ceremony. In ac- no beef.” Whether University student commit- tuality, it was kidnapping. The or not the younger ted suicide by jumping off the victim was seized and forced members hold their George Washington Bridge af- into the apartment where mem- own prejudices is ter his roommate broadcasted bers of the gang, two adults and irrelevant, however. video of him kissing another seven teenagers, waited. The violence and male student over the internet. What follows may be too hatred that the gang Some leaders are encourag- graphic for some readers. The is capable of when ing solidarity between all in the 17-year-old victim was sub- together is all too wake of these incidents. The jected to brutal torture. Gang clear, and must be Rev. James Dusenbury, Senior members shouted gay slurs at dealt with accord- Pastor of In The Life Ministries, the victim as they beat him and ingly. an alternative place of worship slashed him with a box cutter. Community that welcomes LGBT com- He was then forced to strip na- members have been munity members, emphasized ked and was sodomized with a encouraged to work the importance of unity in the plunger as his assailants interro- with the police in wake of these attacks. “Today gated him as to the details of a tion to homosexuality. It was a ed to them…The heartless men apprehending the ninth suspect I charged the congregation not relationship with a 30-year-old cleansing of sorts, as the gang who committed these crimes in the case. But even the vic- to cower and back down, to be neighborhood man. A second members thought they were ac- should know that their fellow tims were reluctant to speak proud of who they are, espe- 17-year-old affi liated with the tually punishing the young men. New Yorkers will not tolerate to the authorities. The original cially in these times,” said the older man was also kidnapped The event has left New Yorkers their vicious acts, or the hatred target of the attacks initially Reverend. Established four and and beaten at the apartment. and city offi cials alike shaken. that fuels them.” told police and doctors that he a half years ago, In The Life Later that night, the 30-year- Police Commissioner Ray- Bronx Borough President was jumped and mugged.