Beyonce Honors A Killed beautiful Gay Dancer on a Gay Hate Crime
This type of killing keeps happening in New York City and around the world. A Young Happy dancer decided to get out of the car he was traveling with his friends and is confronted not by one but by a gang of anti-gay cowards. You will notice is always a gang, never one. The power of the many who feel offended because only they should be heard whenever they decide and it's usually violent enough to make someone curl up in disbelief. This coward will be caught and needs to be tried with his friends and have charges added of hate crime. Many times the police charge and the prosecutor reduces but it should not happen on hate crimes when a person is seriously injured or killed. Not in this case, O'sea didn't have a chance. This coward stuck the knife to kill.
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Dancer’s killing at a Brooklyn gas station under investigation as a hate crime
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A 28-year-old professional dancer was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn gas station Saturday night in an incident that police are investigating as a homophobic hate crime.
O’Shae Sibley and his friends stopped to fuel up at a Mobil gas station on Coney Island Avenue in Midwood around 11 p.m., on their way home after a day at the beach, according to family and friends. The group was playing BeyoncĂ©’s “Renaissance” album and dancing a modern style called “voguing,” according to a video posted by one of the witnesses on Facebook. Surveillance video from the gas station shows they were shirtless in their bathing suits on a sweltering night.
According to Summy Ullah, an employee of the gas station’s adjoining Bolla Market, Sibley and his friends were approached by a group of men who claimed the flamboyant behavior offended their Muslim faith.
“These people were like ‘We’re Muslim, I don’t want you dancing,” Ullah said in a phone interview Monday. He said that the initial instigators were friends of a man who works at a nearby smoke shop and frequently comes by the gas station to use the restroom.
“The gay people, they were not trying to fight,” said Ullah. “The smoke shop kid and his friend started this.”
When the fight escalated, Ullah stepped out of the store to intervene.
“There’s no point in fighting,” Ullah recalled telling the group. “Just leave,” he said.
Surveillance video from outside the store captured a heated verbal exchange between the two groups. Sibley, tall in pink swim trunks, stands by his buddies as they argue with the other men.
After a few minutes, Sibley and his friends turn to head back to their white sedan. But one of the men in the other group begins filming them with his phone, prompting Sibley and two of his friends to come back to the front of the store to continue the confrontation. A bystander appears to try to come in between the groups to diffuse the situation, but Sibley and the men disappear for a few seconds around the side of the store.
When Sibley is fully visible again, he has been stabbed and appears stunned on the sidewalk as his friends scramble to stop the bleeding from his wound.
One of those friends was Otis Pena, who posted a Facebook Live video on his profile page Sunday, the day after the incident.
“They killed O’Shae,” he repeats over and over again through tears in that video. “They killed my brother right in front of me. I’m covered in his blood.”
In the Facebook Live video, Pena explains that the beach outing was a celebration for his birthday, and the group had stopped at the gas station because it was two blocks from his home.
“They murdered him, because he was gay, because he stood up for his friends,” Pena said, anguished. “I’m trying to put pressure on the wound, and there’s blood squirting everywhere. Happy birthday to me, right?”
Emergency responders transported Sibley to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead
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Brittany Kriegstein
Gothamist.
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