Murderer of gay man not to be charged with hate crime
(New York City) A 19-year-old Brooklyn man has been convicted of murder in the stabbing of a gay man he claimed had flirted with him, but the jury was not allowed to consider whether the killing was a hate crime.
Omar Willock had been charged with murder as a hate crime …
Trial begins for teen in NYC gay hate murder
(New York City) The trial has begun for the alleged killer of a 20-year-old gay Brooklyn man, who was murdered because another man thought he was flirting with him.
Omar Willock, 19, is charged with stabbing Robert Duncanson to death on May 12, 2007. If convicted of murder as a hate …
Gay Marriage In New York Now Seen As Unlikely in ’09 or ’10.
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Jim Carrey’s gay movie among Sundance buzz titles
A star-studded cop drama like “Brooklyn’s Finest?” A high-profile animated opening-night film like “Mary & Max?” Jim Carrey’s turn as a gay man in “I Love You Philip Morris?”
Maybe.
A rough-hewn documentary about a popular rapper? A quiet drama about Middle East immigrants in the Midwest? A real-life story about men who attack dolphins?
Very likely.
As the Sundance Film Festival opens in this mountain resort on Thursday, buzz titles are springing from buyers’ lips, as they do every year. “Brooklyn’s Finest,” a reunion of “Training Day” partners Antoine Fuqua and Ethan Hawke, leads a pack of prominent titles seeking distribution, along with movies that follow this year’s trend toward one-word titles, including “Spread,” an off-color comedy starring Ashton Kutcher, and “Shrink,” a drama starring Kevin Spacey.
Buyers expect at least one or two films to go for solid seven figures, with one or two more pulling in respectable sales. One also can throw Shana Feste’s family drama “The Greatest,” Lone Scherfig’s period romantic comedy “An Education,” the Michael Cera-starring quasi-documentary “Paper Heart” and the Robin Williams-Bobcat Goldthwait collaboration “World’s Greatest Dad” into the mix.
But with high-profile movies flaming out at the festival or the box office last year — Barry Levinson’s “What Just Happened?” and Andrew Fleming’s “Hamlet 2,” respectively — and acquisition-minded distributors carrying thinner wallets, small movies might make the biggest splash. That especially will be true if a high-profile title gets even a small amount of negative attention.
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3 NYC cops charged in abuse case
(New York City) A police officer warned a tattoo parlor worker that if he reported being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station, officers would lock him up for a felony, prosecutors say.
The threat was among details to emerge as the Brooklyn district attorney announced an …
1 Dead in Bushwick Bias Attack
Two Ecuadorian brothers, Jose and Romel Sucuzhanay, were walking home early on the morning of Dec. 7, a little tipsy and arm-in-arm. That, allegedly, was enough to incite a group of men to physically assault them while shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic epithets.
Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, was declared brain-dead by doctors at Elmhurst Hospital Center two days later, and now the Brooklyn community where the attack took place is seeking arrests and answers.
The incident occurred about 3:30 a.m., when the two brothers were on their way home from a bar near the intersection of Bushwick Avenue and Kossuth Place in Bushwick. According to the New York Times, witnesses saw a maroon sport utility vehicle pull up to the Sucuzhanays on the sidewalk. Three men jumped out, yelling anti-gay and racist slurs. One man broke a beer bottle over Jose Sucuzhanay’s head from behind and knocked him down. See 1 Dead in Bushwick Bias Attack
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Smith: Deal off with dissident NY Senate Democrats, he wouldn’t subject civil rights issues to negotiation,
ALBANY, N.Y. – Senate Democratic leader Malcolm Smith said Wednesday any deal with three dissidents to secure his party’s hold on the chamber majority is officially off.
Smith said he has the support of the Democratic Caucus and has ceased negotiations with the three, Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. and Sen.-elect Pedro Espada Jr., both of the Bronx, and Sen. Carl Kruger of Brooklyn. Their support would give the party a 32-30 majority beginning Jan. 1 after decades of Republican control.
“We’re prepared to wait if we have to to come into the majority,” Smith said. He was flanked by senators Neil Breslin of Albany and Liz Krueger of Manhattan when he made the announcement.
Smith said the three renegades were motivated by “personal interests.” He also said he wouldn’t subject civil rights issues to negotiation, referring to a proposal backed by many Democrats to legalize gay marriage. See Smith: Deal off with dissident NY Senate Democrats
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3 NYC cops charged in abuse case
(New York City) A police officer warned a tattoo parlor worker that if he reported being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station, officers would lock him up for a felony, prosecutors say.
The threat was among details to emerge as the Brooklyn district attorney announced an …
NYPD hunts for suspects in anti-gay, anti-Hispanic crime
Jose Sucuzhanay was attacked as he walked arm-in-arm with his 38-year-old brother early Sunday in Brooklyn. He had been listed in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery at Elmhurst Hospital.
Family members held a news conference at midday Tuesday outside the Queens hospital to say he was clinging to life and the family had to make an important decision about what to do.
A law enforcement official, however, said that Sucuzhanay had been declared brain dead and was taken off life support Tuesday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
The three assailants were still being sought.
The attack came less than three weeks after seven Long Island teenagers were charged in the fatal stabbing of another immigrant from Ecuador. Prosecutors said the defendants had been hanging out with friends when someone suggested they go find a Hispanic person to attack.
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Ecuadoran Is Brain-Dead After Possible Bias Attack
The two brothers from Ecuador had attended a church party and had stopped at a bar afterward. They may have been a bit tipsy as they walked home in the dead of night, arm-in-arm, leaning close to each other, a common tableau of men in Latino cultures, but one easily misinterpreted by the biased mind.
Suddenly a car drew up. It was 3:30 a.m. Sunday, and the intersection of Bushwick Avenue and Kossuth Place in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a half-block from the brothers’ apartment, was nearly deserted — but not quite. Witnesses, the police said, heard some of what happened next.
Three men came out of the car shouting at the brothers, Jose and Romel Sucuzhanay — something ugly, anti-gay and anti-Latino. Vulgarisms against Hispanics and gay men were heard by witnesses, the police said. One man approached Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, the owner of a real estate agency who has been in New York a decade, and broke a beer bottle over the back of his head. He went down hard.
Romel Sucuzhanay, 38, who is visiting from Ecuador on a two-month visa, bounded over a parked car and ran as the man with the broken bottle came at him. A distance away, he looked back and saw a second assailant beating his prone brother with an aluminum baseball bat, striking him repeatedly on the head and body. The man with the broken bottle turned back and joined the beating and kicking.
“They used a baseball bat,” said Diego Sucuzhanay, another brother. “I guess the goal was to kill him.”
At least five calls were made to 911. As police sirens wailed in the distance, the assailants, described only as black men by the police, jumped into their maroon or red-orange Honda sport utility vehicle and sped away. Jose Sucuzhanay was declared brain dead on Tuesday after suffering extensive brain damage and skull fractures, according to law enforcement officials. He was kept on life support at Elmhurst Hospital Center, while his family decides whether to donate his organs, a law enforcement official said.
As word of the ferocious attack spread on Monday, an outpouring of anger and protest swept the city, from members of the City Council, the State Legislature and Congress; from religious, labor and civil rights organizations; from Latino and gay groups; and from the Ecuadorean and Hispanic communities.
“This won’t be tolerated,” Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, said at a news conference on Monday on the steps of City Hall that drew dozens of public officials and leaders of civil rights groups. “We cannot and we will not let hate go unchecked in our city.” See Ecuadoran Is Brain-Dead After Possible Bias Attack
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