Tragic Death Ruled Not A Hate Crime
A young man was chased by a mob of youths yelling racial slurs at him.
The man would later die from an asthma attack.
Cenk Uygur and
Ana Kasparian, hosts of
The Young Turks, break it down.
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“The initial reports about Dayshen McKenzie’s death on May 27 on
Staten Island seemed to echo the crimes of an earlier era: A black teenager was dead after being chased by a mob of youths yelling a stinging racial slur.
But a week after his death, the police said on Friday that it appeared to have resulted from a preplanned encounter between rival street gangs that ended with Mr. McKenzie running and suffering an asthma attack. Though anguished by the suggestion that her son was in a gang, the boy’s mother,
Tisha Richardson, agreed that her son’s condition had caused his death. The racial slur was a casual expression among youth, she said, not evidence of a hate crime.
“Asthma is what killed him,” she said. “It was a tragedy. I’m angry that he didn’t have his asthma pump.”
Robert K.
Boyce, the
Police Department’s chief of detectives, discussed the continuing investigation at a news conference on Friday, after an article in
The Daily News earlier that day drew calls for a federal hate crime investigation. The report compared Mr. McKenzie’s death to that in
1986 of
Michael Griffith, 23, of
Brooklyn, who was hit by a car and killed, as he fled a violent white mob who chased him onto a highway in
Howard Beach, Queens.”
Read more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/nyregion/dayshen-mckenzie-staten-island-hate-crime
.html?_r=0
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