JetBlue Spotlights Coming Out Day Stories of LGBTQ Employees
The airline also promised a “special surprise” for those who share their own #ComingOutDay stories.
www.advocate.com/business/2019/10/11/jetblue-spotlights-coming-out-day-stories-lgbtq-employees
Judge declares mistrial in case of cop who allegedly beat teen and called subordinates “f*ggots”
A federal judge just declared a mistrial in the case of a former police chief from New Jersey who was facing a hate crime charge and a civil rights violation.
Former Bordentown Township Police Chief Frank Nucera Jr. was on trial regarding the 2016 arrest of Timothy Stroye, an 18-year-old African American teenager.
Stoye was arrested after being accused of trying to sneak into the pool at the Ramada hotel in Bordentown Township. He was taken into custody and held on a $7,500 bail, which he was unable to afford. During his three week stay in Burlington County Jail, his father died.
While in custody, Nucera allegedly abused Stoye, verbally assaulting him and slamming his head into a doorjamb. Later, when questioned about it by the FBI, Nucera denied ever touching the teenager.
During the trial, prosecutors argued the assault was motivated by racial animus and played over 80 recordings made by another office that captured Nucera using racial slurs while on the job, including saying Black people are “like ISIS” and deserved to die.
“I’ll tell you what, it’s gonna get to the point where I could shoot one of these motherf*ckers,” Nucera said in one of the recordings. “And that n*gger b*tch lady, she almost got it. F*cking nipple hanging b*tch. I’m so tired of them, man.”
In addition to being caught on tape saying horrific and racist things, Nucera also has a long history of making derogatory remarks about LGBTQ people, women, and pretty much every other marginalized community.
HuffPo reports:
Nucera called President Donald Trump the “last hope for white people” and referred to his officers in expletive-laden terms. He called his subordinates “millennial c*nts,” “f*ggot p*ssies,” and “softer than baby sh*t.” Multiple officers said that Nucera was obsessed with ticket revenue, with one calling him a “traffic Nazi” who oversaw a small department that patrolled a 10-square-mile township and issued more tickets per year than the township had residents.
Jurors deliberated for almost 45 hours over the course of eight days before telling U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler they were deadlocked on the hate crime and civil rights charges, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
The jury was split 9-3 in favor of finding Nucera guilty of using excessive force and denying the civil rights of Timothy Stroye, a handcuffed black suspect during a Sept. 1, 2016, incident at the center of the trial. The panel was more divided on the hate-crime assault count, the juror said. For some jurors, the decision “was very clear,” in favor of a guilty verdict, the juror said.“ It was back and forth.”
The jury did, however, find Nucera guilty of lying to the FBI. He now faces up to five years in prison. He would have faced up to 20 years on the hate crime and civil rights charges.
U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito says federal prosecutors plan to retry the case.
Related: 5 police officers exposed for not living up to their oaths
Remembering and Honoring Matthew Shepard
HRC marks the tragic death of Matthew Shepard 21 years ago. As we mourn with the Shepard family, we recommit to our shared work combating hate and advocating for laws that protect LGBTQ people and mandate the accurate accounting of crimes against our community.
Shepard was attacked in Laramie, Wyoming, in an anti-gay hate crime on Oct. 6, 1998. He died from his injuries six days later. In his memory, HRC remains vigilant in its work against hate and to ensure that no one is targeted because of who they are or who they love.
Since his death, significant progress has been made to expand protections and support for victims of hate-motivated crime, including the 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Just months before Shepard was murdered, Byrd, a Black man, was beaten by a group of white supremacists, tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged three miles before dying. The Shepard and Byrd families worked tirelessly to pass the historic act.
At this year’s HRC Foundation’s Time to THRIVE conference, Judy and Dennis Shepard were presented with the Upstander Award for their steadfast commitment to advocacy after their son’s horrific murder.
Even with the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, we still have a long way to go. Too many in the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender women of color, are targeted with violence. Just this year, 19 transgender people have been killed — and most were victims of gun violence.
That’s why during her remarks at HRC’s Time to THRIVE conference, Judy Shepard emphasized the importance of protecting LGBTQ people nationwide.
“We have a situation in this country right now that is temporary, but even in this temporary time, it becomes extra important because those who don’t want us here are emboldened in their beliefs… We need to work with the Human Rights Campaign, our own state legislators, our senators because state by state we can do this but we really need to do it federally,” she said.
In the states, it is imperative that local and state law enforcement expand trainings and infrastructure so they can better serve diverse communities — and fully and accurately report on the extent of anti-LGBTQ violence. HRC has also called on state legislatures to pass inclusive non-discrimination protections and hate crimes laws, and the U.S. Senate to pass the Equality Act, which would provide explicit protection for LGBTQ people nationwide. Lawmakers must also act to ensure that training and data-collection around all hate crimes is mandatory, not voluntary.
We must combat the divisive rhetoric and dangerous policies that dehumanize large swaths of the public. The combination of transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia and racism can inflame hate, often leading to deadly consequences. That’s why the LGBTQ community needs lawmakers to act with the urgency this ongoing crisis demands.
HRC vows to continue honoring with action the memory of Shepard, Byrd and all those whose lives have been ended by hate.
www.hrc.org/blog/remembering-and-honoring-matthew-shepard?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
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10 Celebs Sending Love to LGBTQ Youth on National Coming Out Day
www.advocate.com/people/2019/10/11/10-celebs-sending-love-lgbtq-youth-national-coming-out-day
Queer couple shocked by new ‘gay-bashing’ neighbor. Their response is priceless.
What happens when a liberal bubble gets popped by an uncomfortable encounter with unhinged bigotry?
We all know from watching the news that hatred and ultra-conservative viewpoints have become emboldened in recent years, but suddenly having to confront them face-to-face is another matter.
Marcia Wilke of Los Angeles recently learned that the hard way, but her reaction is worth paying attention to.
In an LA Times op-ed, Wilke, who lives with her wife, writes about what happened when their “delightfully diverse, liberal-leaning, bake-sale-for-charity Hollywood neighborhood” got a new neighbor — a “gay-bashing ranter” who hung “an assortment of hostile T-shirts printed with anti-feminism, anti-Islam, anti-gay and pro-1st Amendment sayings” in his front yard for all to see.”
He’d spend his time in the yard, yelling “at anyone walking by, calling them ‘progressive scum’ or ‘socialists.’ If he got no response, he would chant and sing, ‘Lock her up’ or ‘Build the wall’— for 30 minutes.”
The neighborhood felt terrorized, and Wilke and her partner were all too aware that the man was vehemently antigay.
But one day when he was locked out of his house without a cellphone, Wilke and her partner offered a helping hand.
No one in the neighborhood would open their door to him except us. My partner let him use her cellphone. He called his mom to rescue him.
He handed back the phone. “Why are you being so nice to me?”
She replied, “Oh. Human being.”
Later, when someone took down his hateful t-shirt collection and scattered them down the block, Wilke gathered and returned them to her neighbor. Instead of thanking her, the man complained that one was missing.
“I knew which one — a black T-shirt with a derogatory definition for each letter of LGBTQ,” Wilke writes.
She asked him to describe what it looked like, what it said. He wouldn’t do it.
Wilke concluded:
All I know is that he wouldn’t tell me to my face the words on his gay-bashing T-shirt. He could not look at me and verbalize what he thought was his “right” to express. When it was human being to human being, the hate was unsustainable.
Read Wilke’s full story here.
Gay Man Who Fled Chechnya Describes How Captors Staged His Execution: ‘I Started Painting the Wall with My Blood’ — WATCH
ABC’s Nightline previewed an upcoming segment in which they look into the detentions and persecution of gay men in the Russian republic of Chechnya which has been going on for years.
ABC News foreign correspondent James Longman spent a year talking to several victims of the anti-LGBT campaigns.
Amin Dzhabrailov, who was captured and tortured and beaten for days, described his experience, telling Nightline that his captors staged his execution: “They tell me that they know that I’m gay, and [to] tell [them] about more gay guys… The sense was [they would] probably just torture them also. … I didn’t give any name[s]. … They took off my shoes… and they put me on the wall, put [a] bag on my head…. That guy charged his gun, and put [it] right here on my head. And I started painting the wall with my blood. And he said that it’s my last seconds.
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