Cenk Uygur
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Tragic Death Ruled Not A Hate Crime
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June 7, 2016
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4:32Now PlayingA young man was chased by a mob of youths yelling racial slurs at him. The man would later die from an asthma attack. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“The initial reports about Dayshen McKenzie’s death on May 27 on Staten Island seemed to echo the crimes of an earlier era: A black teenager was dead after being chased by a mob of youths yelling a stinging racial slur.
But a week after his death, the police said on Friday that it appeared to have resulted from a preplanned encounter between rival street gangs that ended with Mr. McKenzie running and suffering an asthma attack. Though anguished by the suggestion that her son was in a gang, the boy’s mother, Tisha Richardson, agreed that her son’s condition had caused his death. The racial slur was a casual expression among youth, she said, not evidence of a hate crime.
“Asthma is what killed him,” she said. “It was a tragedy. I’m angry that he didn’t have his asthma pump.”
Robert K. Boyce, the Police Department’s chief of detectives, discussed the continuing investigation at a news conference on Friday, after an article in The Daily News earlier that day drew calls for a federal hate crime investigation. The report compared Mr. McKenzie’s death to that in 1986 of Michael Griffith, 23, of Brooklyn, who was hit by a car and killed, as he fled a violent white mob who chased him onto a highway in Howard Beach, Queens.”
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