Why I care: Because this should never happen
It's a shame that on the heels of the good news from Argentina we get some other news to bring us down.
A 19 year old gay teenager in Puerto Rico has been burned, decapitated and dismembered
Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado died horrifically before he was even 20 years old. Gods above, how can someone be so blackened by hate as to do this to someone who is little more than a boy?
And to add insult to injury - it is reported:
"the public remarks from a police investigator for the case that 'people who lead this type of lifestyle need to be aware that this will happen'."
No. It bloody well SHOULDN'T happen. And how DARE a policeman accept this as inevitable?! Or as a consequence! We should be SAFE. And it's the job of people like THIS to protect Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado - now matter what the poor kid's "lifestyle" was (and that's who the kid WAS bigoted idiot).
A 19 year old gay teenager in Puerto Rico has been burned, decapitated and dismembered
Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado died horrifically before he was even 20 years old. Gods above, how can someone be so blackened by hate as to do this to someone who is little more than a boy?
And to add insult to injury - it is reported:
"the public remarks from a police investigator for the case that 'people who lead this type of lifestyle need to be aware that this will happen'."
No. It bloody well SHOULDN'T happen. And how DARE a policeman accept this as inevitable?! Or as a consequence! We should be SAFE. And it's the job of people like THIS to protect Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado - now matter what the poor kid's "lifestyle" was (and that's who the kid WAS bigoted idiot).