Hate Crime in Howard Beach and Gotti Boys

The local media has been in a frenzy all this week in Howard Beach ,New York. Howard Beach nearly 19 years ago was in the news after a gang of whites beat and chased three blacks who ventured into Howard Beach on foot when their car broke down.
Michael Griffith, 23, was struck and killed by a car as he fled his attackers.

Recent news articles have been obsessed with a bias crime against another group of black men. They were beaten by two white male's Nicholas Minucci,Anthony Enchat at around 3am in the morning while trying to steal a car!

The local news media jumped on the fact that the area of the crime has a history of racial problems! The media jumped to the conclusion that it was a bias crime. If so the guy should be put in jail for a long time!

But the guy to me did not seem to be a hardcore racist. He claimed the guys were gonna steal his bling, and may be reacted using racial epithets. I am not sure if that alone is a bias crime! The reason I say this is because, hip hop culture has blurred racial language. Many african americans who fight with latino's are also called racial names. But these same latin guys have black freinds, date black women, and listen to hip hop music.Also when I was in high school, white guys tlike these were jerks..but not racist. They would however often make the best recipe for a racist, but most were not there, at least not yet! Most of these guys I know are not racist today as adults. This is to say that racial words, may be words of frustration, rather than words of bias. My blog readers, should also note that the lawyer for the defendant said “He's upset that the incident happened. It’s wrong that Mr. Moore is hospitalized with a serious injury, and my client denies that it was racially motivated,” said Attorney Siccardi. This guy reminds me of the Gotti boys. But again this is not this jerks first time In 2001, a 15-year-old named Nicholas Minucci allegedly beat an elderly Sikh gentleman with a baseball bat while spitting racial epithets against ‘Arabs’ (via Turbanhead). He allegedly lay in wait outside the main gurudwara in Queens and shot several people with a paintball gun.
Because the attack happened the day of 9/11, Attar Singh chose not to press charges, saying it was a time for healing. Another Sikh did press charges, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. Or he could be a Gotti boy, trying to be tough, rich, flashy and powerful! So he could be a racist or maybe like the Ghotti's he has a chip on his shoulder. Maybe like the Gotti's he does love his "bling bling"

Ignorant maybe... Racist Maybe! One thing for sure, the guys stealing the cars and the Racist/Gotti Boy both got a wake up call!

Just a side note, today about 3 days after this post I read that Nick is freind's with one of the Gotti Boys! Now thats some scary shit!