"Judge Throws Out Charge in Gay Attack"

[GreenPartyVoter]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A judge threw out a manslaughter charge against a young man who fatally stabbed a teenager who allegedly attacked him because he is gay.

Municipal Judge Gerard Kosinski also ordered 21-year-old Lucas Dawson, an aspiring singer, released from jail.

Dawson told police that seven people began taunting him, chasing him down and beating him as he walked to catch a bus Oct. 29. He said he pulled out a small knife and waved it, but when Gerald Knight, 17, punched him, he stabbed him in the chest.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051110/D8DPM7OG1.html

[Fridays Child]

1. Now, will people finally admit how dangerous gay men are???

:sarcasm:

Seriously, I don't condone violence but I certainly support self-defense. And what a mind fuck when a pack of redneck, hetero boys finds out that gay guys know how to fight.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Thank God that kid could defend himself

[skiddlybop]

3. I'll say...

hope it happens more.

[meganmonkey]

5. ? I would rather hope it never happens again

but maybe that's just me :shrug:

[flvegan]

4. Good. I'm sad for the families of the boy that died, but

no judge can order you released from the morgue, where Mr. Dawson may well have wound up had he not had that little knife.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Precisely. I wonder if the kid who died came from a family of bigots

or if he was just going along with everyone else?