Lawrence King Murder

Reflections on the Trial of Lawrence King's Murderer

Scottie Thomaston | Posted 02.22.2012

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Scottie Thomaston

I wonder if McInerney's 21-year sentence is too easy, a way to prop up a failed system and a failed response to crime. I wonder if it's putting a band-aid on our problems when we should be doing a lot more to end violence against our most oppressed.

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Hunter Stuart

Gay Student's Flamboyant Style Blamed For His Murder

HuffingtonPost.com | Hunter Stuart | Posted 11.28.2011

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Only a few hours had passed after 17-year-old Brandon McInerney had pled guilty to the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Lawrence "Larry" King at E.O. Gre...

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Gay Student Threatened Days Before He Was Slayed, Prosecutors Say

Posted 09.04.2011

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Trial began this afternoon in the case of a California teenager accused of execution-style murdering a gay classmate at a middle school in 2008. Th...

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What it Says About Us When a 17-Month-Old Boy Is Beaten to Death for "Acting Like a Girl"

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Rowe

The beating death of 17-month-old Roy Jones was no less a hate crime because the victim was a baby; whether would have grown up to be transgender is irrelevant.

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CNN Cuts Gay Teen Killing From Cooper Podcast

Dipayan Gupta | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dipayan Gupta

When one cuts an hour-long show down to 24 minutes, some sacrifices must be made. But excluding this murder while giving ample room to a kid singing in his underwear is a terrible lapse in judgment.

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