Anti-homosexual killers were black

In recent weeks, I had seen several stories in the media about a gang of youths in New York who had beaten to death an Ecuadoran immigrant while shouting anti-homosexual and anti-Hispanic slogans. From the tone of the coverage, with its repeated, eager references to the “anti-gay,” “anti-Hispanic” gang, I had assumed that the assailants were white, and that the media had been delivered a Howard Beach and a Matthew Shepard rolled into one. I had intended to read more on the crime and write something about it, but hadn’t gotten around to it. Today reader RB informed me that the assailants were black. As reported in the December 19 New York Daily News, linked by Brenda Walker at the Vdare blog:

Gov. Paterson met Thursday with the family of an Ecuadoran immigrant beaten to death in a Brooklyn bias attack and urged New Yorkers to help police find the thugs who did it.

“New Yorkers hate hate crimes,” Paterson told reporters at his Manhattan office.

“I urge anyone that knows anything about the attacks that led to the tragic death of Jose Sucuzhañay to please let the authorities know and help this family to at least know that the tragic loss of their bother, their son, will be avenged in a court of law.

“Society is judged on how we treat our fellow man. This is not the New York we aspire to.”

Sucuzhañay, a 31-year-old real estate broker and father of two, was badly bludgeoned Dec. 7 in Bushwick by three black men who shouted anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs, witnesses said.

Sucuzhañay’s body is being flown back to his native Ecuador today to be buried.

Paterson said he promised the family he would do all he can to help find the killers.

“I wanted to let them know that the power of the executive branch and the powers of the state will be utilized to the fullest extent,” he said.

Recent statistics show that hate crimes against Hispanics have risen in the United States by 40% from 2005 to 2007.

“I ask all parents to sit down tonight and talk to their children about diversity and what it means to live in a tolerant society,” he said. “We must do better.”

Sucuzhañay’s brother, Digeo, who was with Jose the night of the fatal beating, said he was grateful for Paterson’s help.

“It brings my family great comfort to know that we have (Paterson) on our side,” he said.

Diego said his family wants justice.

“Those people that killed my brother Jose are still out there,” he said. “We need the public’s help in finding them.”

sgaskell@nydailynews.com

Brenda Walker commented:

This was a terrible crime, and I’m sorry the guy got killed. But I don’t recall New York Governor Pataki condemning the 2006 murder of independent film director Adrienne Shelly by illegal alien Diego Pilco who killed her so she couldn’t call ICE and have him deported.

I don’t remember the state executive taking an interest in the murder of the high school student from Westchester County, Elizabeth Butler, killed by a previously arrested illegal alien who was not deported.

When Rockland County housewife Mary Nagle was brutally killed in 2005 by an illegal alien hired to work on the family home, previously arrested (but undeported) Guatemalan Douglas Herrera, Governor Pataki did not speak out against lax immigration enforcement.

Is it not curious that New York elected officials care more about foreigners murdered in America than American citizens who are killed by illegal aliens?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 26, 2008 12:35 PM | Send