➤HATE CRIMES, from p.14
leaders to vigorously investigate every reported
hate crime.”
Anti-LGBTQ hate crime incidents surfaced
across all five boroughs last year. Among the
most recent cases came last month when
24-year-old immigrant Ronald Albarracin told
Gay City News that assailants shouted anti-
LGBTQ slurs before physically attacking him
in Queens on December 8.
Meanwhile, in September, a gay couple was
eating at Pollos Mario at 81-01 Roosevelt Avenue
in Queens when they said they were attacked
by homophobes .
Earlier in the year, trans women Bianey Garcia
and Norma Ureiro were victims of anti-LGBTQ
slurs and pepper spray attacks in Jackson
Heights the day before the culmination of citywide
WorldPride festivities.
Among cases in the Bronx, cops said a man
was at the East Tremont Avenue subway station
in the Mount Hope section on November
15 when he was called homophobic slurs, beaten
with a hammer, and tossed onto the train
tracks .
In Manhattan, a strange story emerged in
May and July featuring a man who was busted
after cameras caught him lighting Rainbow
Flags on fire on multiple occasions at Alibi
Lounge, a Harlem gay bar.
A more disturbing case surfaced in Staten
Island when a man was charged with multiple
hate crimes when he sent racist and homophobic
letters to multiple people in the borough, including
Staten Island Pride Center executive director
Carol Bullock, saying that “you and your
sicko pals” should “be put out to pasture once
and for all for the sake of mankind.”
➤ COMPSTAT, from p.14
gay-straight alliances, among many other bills.
“They can explain the difference between an LS
request and an introduction, which is where
you seem to be getting confused.”
Deutsch was referring to a legislative service
request, which merely initiates the drafting
process of a piece of legislation. It is only after
that point that a legislative counsel staffer is
tasked with actually drafting a bill.
Kalman Yeger, another southern Brooklyn
lawmaker, also chimed into that strange Twitter
thread, simply saying “Lol” — as if hate
crimes are funny.
Yeger most recently abstained from a nobrainer
vote to make it easier for loved ones to
visit burial sites on Hart Island, home to many
people lost to AIDS.
Richards, for his part, stayed out of that
whole mess and stood with Treyger.
“Happy to work with my colleague @Mark-
Treyger718 to ensure transparency and accountability
in reporting on hate crimes,” he
wrote.
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