as they're having this debate on whether uh... we should have
the legislation to
uh... make petty crimes
protected at or protect gays in
prosecution of hate crimes i said
uh... we had
uh... hate crime against gays
uh... that happen in new york
and it's particularly vicious we have a news report on it we want to kill you
uh... and then we'll come back and talk about here's
i put on the thirteen as on the left hand side of your screen you can see the
two attackers showed and hugs jack price the openly gay victim now in a medically
induced coma
the attack accelerates with both suspects flailing their arms at the
helpless forty nine year old
for a moment the victim manages to get up and stumbles to the pavement
but the pummeling continues in the middle of one twenty third street
perilously despicable crime
visuals in fact
disagreed
for his orientation
which is not enough hours wasn't at a question and answer session police
commissioner ray kelly held up a photo of one of the gay bashing suspects
twenty one-year-old daniel rodriguez the steel at large
investigators have already arrested and charged with second man twenty
six-year-old daniel alvin with assault as a hate crime
allen's lawyer has insisted his client was fighting in self-defense yet he'll
ticket
welcome back to tens if you try to get away
is a video that a star on a hat that he gave to detective and
sometimes got away and sometimes they called him back and started brutally
beating him up again there is no sound of the surveillance video but
prosecutors say the two attackers repeatedly yelled anti gay slurs as big
crackberry victims reid's and shattered his job
after a formidable pounding on priced at two attackers walk away only to pick
something up off the street possibly the victims while
they give it back to him but they also give the battered and one last brutal
slapped in the face
and that is so precious
uh... than i cant my mind can't comprehend it
you do that if somebody who's defenseless
it seems all inhuman tumi yeah i i just can't quite and imagine what it would
take to do that by the way daniel rodriguez has been taken into custody
now since that report i he was captured in norfolk virginia so they're both
under arrest and we got both the guys now look at the if some will say look at
this this is
as bad requirements you can
have and it's obviously an aggravating factor they beat this guy senseless
discuss he was day and others will say what they beat the guy sense was they
should be punished for the full extent of the law
whether ek
you know they attack or whether he was gay or straight or for whatever reason
uh... i think both are fair arguments are no one thing
man they better throw whatever they got at these guys and make sure the day go
away for a long long time
and as i see them the tracking this poor guy
what would cause someone to do that's right
and honestly my fear is that
they've got to have some sort of feelings inside themselves
they're not hitting him they're hurting themselves
there may be hampered psychobabble and and it's entirely possible
that i don't know what i'm talking about
but i think why would you do that to somebody else
unless it's something that you are fighting internal
and your venting that in some weird way on somebody
when you see that he's dead
so but i i i don't want to get into accusations of what they are what they
think they are ami what we know is that they're vicious
and
criminals and they should be convicted
i think that if you do that the somebody when it's not about that obviously it's
about you
and so i gotta wonder what's going to daniel alman and daniel rodriguez has
had their
uh... but we get all agree put them away put away for a long time