No hate crime conviction for Black racist Hakim Scott

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Keith Phoenix faces murder, manslaughter and assault charges, as well as hate crime charges.

He is accused of attacking Jose Sucuzhañay and his brother with a bat in December 2008.

Prosecutors contend it was a bias crime. They say the victims were attacked because they were Hispanic and because their attackers thought they were gay due to the fact they were walking arm-in-arm.

Defense lawyers have denied that bias played a role.

The other man charged in the attack, Hakim Scott, was convicted of manslaughter yesterday, but found not guilty of murder and hate crime charges.

Sucuzhañay's family was disappointed by the verdict. His brother gathered with lawmakers on the courthouse steps today to denounce the decision.

"This process has brought out all the memories that we went through almost two years ago, when Jose was attacked and we went to the hospital and we tried to stay optimistic that Jose would survive," said Diego Sucuzhañay, the victim's brother. "Now we know he won't survive, he won't come back, but at least we hoped the system would send a message so that there are no other Joses."

"They got it wrong; Jose Sucuzhañay was murdered because Hakim Scott and Keith Phoenix did not like who he is and who they thought he was," said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. "And they attacked him, by all accounts, for no other reason than their hatred of the LGBT community and their hatred of Latinos and immigrants. That's what killed Jose Sucuzhañay."

Brooklyn-Queens Representative Nydia Velazquez also said her office will look at the case to determine whether there are grounds for federal charges of civil rights violations.

Velazquez said if she needed to, she would call on the attorney general to prosecute the attackers.

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[Deelightment]

Hakim Scott is my bestfriend brother && the way their telling this story is soo fucking stupid it's not the truth && you dumbass people who are writing these comments are stupid. you assholes Keith Phoenix is half spanish you && Hakim Scott sister is dating me && Im a female soo all of these hate crimes && gay crimes stories are FAKE just another way to make us as black people look bad. You guys dont know the whole story. the MEDIA is CORRUPTED. If you guys haven't noticed yet.

[UncookedVanilla]

@Deelightment Wow! What an ignorant comment! A White guy, Jeffrey Conroy, was convicted of a hate crime for killing Marcelo Lucero even though he has a Bolivian girlfriend and a member of his crew, Jose Pacheco, is half Black half Puerto Rican.

[Eatm308amA]

@tiderson1 Your man Obama is fixing to sell your ass out for the hispanic vote. Where the fuck are you on that? Now you will have to fight against more of what you call "spics". Most blacks are supporting Obama regardless of what the fuck he does which you my "choose to be stupid" friend have no possibility of grasping that concept. You think in very limited vision. Obama is selling your racist ass out and you eat it up like it's a crack coated chicken. Why dont you promote a real hero. Hater.

[AgentF84s]

NO ONE can ever get me to think white is more racism-gods then black ...NOT EVER...black is the worst racist of all

[zemarezi770]

irony, Hakim Scott's people went thru hell in the years of 1938, 1942, 1953, 1962, them racist years, getting beat up by whites during Jim Crow. these assholes disgrace Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[UncookedVanilla]

@comicbookartistboi " Um, the killer ADMITTED that he targed them, because he thought they were GAY...not because he knew what race they were. Either way, it's hate crime though."

You're making that up. Both always claimed that it was just a street brawl that got out of hand. Both claimed they weren't racist or homophobic. Hakim Scott even claimed he couldn't be anti-gay because he has a gay uncle.

[comicbookartistboi]

@MegaRollerblade Um, the killer ADMITTED that he targed them, because he thought they were GAY...not because he knew what race they were. Either way, it's hate crime though.

[skyyeblue101]

@MegaRollerblade your just a dumb ass all i have to stay no my hair is not kinky bitch is curly mother fucker. get over it. hispanics speak to me in spanish just remember that

[MegaRollerblade]

@Deelightment spanish you mean latino and not latino have black in them only from the Caribbean ghetto bitch

[MegaRollerblade]

@skyyeblue101 tell me who i will verify?im Ecuadorian btw you probably have kinky hair dont be jealous because i have better hair than you hAHA

[MegaRollerblade]

@comicbookartistboi it was racism he didnt like the way they looked so he beat em comparing to jose hakim scott was a monster i personally knew jose.

[germanysjim]

as long as obongo is in charge, blacks or n----- will never be brought to account for their crimes, But after, hes gone, look out, we have long memories, and we do not forget and we do not forgive, expect us

[Lex1999to2011]

@tiderson1 Why? I'm black and I don't think so! :(