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'Hate' Killed NYU Kid
The New York Post ^ | 4/6/06 | By LARRY CELONA, ERIKA MARTINEZ and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN

Posted on 04/06/2006 11:59:13 AM PDT by BronzePencil

The NYPD hate-crimes unit is probing a report that a white NYU student killed by a car in Harlem was fleeing a gang of black teenagers screaming "Get whitey!" sources said yesterday. If the report proves true, the violence could turn out to be an eerie replay in reverse of the infamous 1986 Howard Beach murder, where a black man was chased into traffic and killed by a group of white bigots.

The 20-year-old student, John Broderick Hehman, died yesterday, six days after the attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: crime; hatecrime; nyu; urbanbarbarians
I wonder if Al $harpton will organize a protest?
1 posted on 04/06/2006 11:59:13 AM PDT by BronzePencil
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To: BronzePencil

black teenagers, white bigots. Is that part of the NY Post style guide?


2 posted on 04/06/2006 12:00:36 PM PDT by Huck
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To: BronzePencil

No hate crime here, nothing to see, move along.


3 posted on 04/06/2006 12:00:49 PM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here in what some call Aztlan.")
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To: BronzePencil

Anybody want to play off the tie?


4 posted on 04/06/2006 12:01:37 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Huck

You said it.


5 posted on 04/06/2006 12:01:44 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: BronzePencil

Tribalism is alive and well.


6 posted on 04/06/2006 12:05:15 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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To: Huck

yes Huck , sadly it takes years to change things here in NYC

... this town is crawling with illegals

... an Councilman Charles Barron [D Brooklyn] , former Black Panther , want to give illegals the right to vote[GULP!!]


7 posted on 04/06/2006 12:07:04 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: FormerLib

"The sources said Hehman might have been targeted as a soft mark for robbers after the teenage gang spotted the caring urban-studies major handing pocket change to a wheelchair- bound man near the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue Saturday night. The gang of youths, some of them as young as 11, had been smoking pot inside a nearby Popeye's fast-food eatery at 8:30 p.m. when they spotted Hehman walking by and then stopping to help the handicapped man."


8 posted on 04/06/2006 12:07:52 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: BronzePencil
"The gang of youths, some of them as young as 11, had been smoking pot inside a nearby Popeye's fast-food eatery"

Civilization is really struggling to survive in our major cities.

10 posted on 04/06/2006 12:13:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Javelina

This isn't a hate crime. Black people can't commit hate crimes. . .


11 posted on 04/06/2006 12:13:52 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: CondorFlight

Thugs that killed this kid are about to take over congress.

John Conyers would spit at the kid as he was bleeding on the road. McKinney would step on him.


12 posted on 04/06/2006 12:15:53 PM PDT by santorumlite
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To: BenLurkin

This is where Bubba Clinton works and he will be using this area in commercials for hillary rodham's majesty bid.

Bubba will be saying I feel your pain.

This is Bubba's area in Harlem that he speaks so proud of and how we need to be giving affirmative action to these people.

Bubba Clinton will tell you the people of the 125st, same area he has his office are great people who would be succeeding if it wasn't for the white scum out there.

Bubba Clinton for another 8 years. I can see the ads now.

As the Clintons always say you get two for the price of one.


13 posted on 04/06/2006 12:19:20 PM PDT by santorumlite
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To: BronzePencil

It's ok. It's just black on white crime.


14 posted on 04/06/2006 12:20:33 PM PDT by BinaryBoy
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To: BronzePencil

It's kind of pathetic when I'm no more likely to show my face in many parts of this city than in Baghdad.


15 posted on 04/06/2006 12:28:45 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: BronzePencil

I've spent a lot of time in New York City. Most of the people are pretty decent, but there are parts of the city where you don't go if you're in your right mind.

Harlem is better than parts of Brooklyn or the South Bronx, but I wouldn't advise strolling around there unless you know what you're doing.

On the other hand, there are parts of Brooklyn where black people don't dare stroll. It is kind of tribal in a way, people automatically defending their turf.


16 posted on 04/06/2006 12:31:46 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

I look forward to the MSM covering this. Sixty Minutes, Dateline, ABC New Special, I'm sure they're all getting in line to investigate. NOT.


17 posted on 04/06/2006 12:45:48 PM PDT by kjo
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To: BenLurkin

Stop persecuting drugs! The War on Drugs is an unmitigated evil! Potheads NEVER do anything bad--they just want to hang out, eat, and pet kittens!!

/average legalize drugs robot on FR


18 posted on 04/06/2006 12:46:29 PM PDT by ECM (Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
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To: BronzePencil

If were the other way around it wouldn't be 'checking to see IF", it would be cold facts.


19 posted on 04/06/2006 12:51:03 PM PDT by sandbar
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To: sandbar; ECM; kjo

well , perhaps there will be video from inside Popeye's


20 posted on 04/06/2006 12:57:01 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: BronzePencil

Another example of mindless attack dogs in action. Mobs/gangs, etc. are human garbage. It does not matter their color or their cause. They just love to hate together.


21 posted on 04/06/2006 1:34:25 PM PDT by Galveston Grl (Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
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To: BronzePencil

Anyone this side of reality knows the country is full of black racism. The tragedy is that blacks have been encouraged to believe their racism is justified. It isn't, never is. But it's a great tool which the left wing is using to destroy our society.


22 posted on 04/06/2006 1:36:57 PM PDT by Williams
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To: BronzePencil
His sister, Marisa, said he had been walking to meet a friend when he was attacked.

Perhaps. But Park and 125th is not a normal place for a white NYU student to have "friends". The only reason for any member of civilization to be there after dark is to change from a Metro-North train to the Lexington Ave. subway line, and there's been no mention that the victim was doing that. More likely, he was there to purchase illegal drugs.

23 posted on 04/06/2006 1:39:35 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

125th and Park has changed in recent yeras and lots of students and younger people are moving into that neighborhood as it is somewhat affordable. If he was there to buy drugs, there are plenty of areas around NYU he could've chosen to go to.


24 posted on 04/06/2006 1:49:41 PM PDT by BronzePencil (if we outlaw nuclear energy only outlaws will have nuclear energy)
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To: BronzePencil

Read it here, cuz you won't see it on the mainstream leftist dominated newsentertainment media.


25 posted on 04/06/2006 1:58:48 PM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (what have you done today to fight terrorism/leftism (same thing!))
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To: BenLurkin

Ever see escape from New York? Maybe that's a hint of what to do with big, corrupt cities.


26 posted on 04/06/2006 1:59:40 PM PDT by pankot
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To: pankot
hey, I'm living here!
Use boston instead. :)
27 posted on 04/06/2006 2:17:11 PM PDT by flushing_kenny
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To: flushing_kenny

New York is a hole!


28 posted on 04/06/2006 2:31:54 PM PDT by gman992
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To: BronzePencil; GovernmentShrinker
Funny, back in the day, Park and 125th was where Italian Harlem met black Harlem.

I just remember the huge mural that the black militant put up that was visible from the Metro North stop.

Oddly enough, there are ALOT of students in the area, especially around Lex in the 110s. Most of Harlem's gentrification has occurred farther west, however.

29 posted on 04/06/2006 2:36:01 PM PDT by Clemenza (I Just Wasn't Made for These Times)
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To: pankot

"Ever see escape from New York? Maybe that's a hint of what to do with big, corrupt cities."

I have felt this way since I first saw that movie back when I was a youngster. Just wall off some isolated area and dump all the criminals there to fend for themselves.


30 posted on 04/06/2006 3:00:32 PM PDT by squidward
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To: BronzePencil

This isn't a hate crime. It is a crime of murder, and all the little bastards that did it should be fried, end of story.


31 posted on 04/06/2006 3:02:16 PM PDT by vpintheak (What's worse, and liberal, or a know it all posing as a Conservative?)
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To: BronzePencil
The sources said Hehman might have been targeted as a soft mark for robbers after the teenage gang spotted the caring urban-studies major handing pocket change to a wheelchair- bound man near the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue Saturday night.

Looks like his independent-study efforts in "urban studies" got him up close and personal to the topic and came to a bad end.

Class dismissed.

32 posted on 04/06/2006 3:09:35 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: BronzePencil

Hate didn't kill the kid... the liberal parents, teachers, and professors that told the kid not to use common sense did. The kid probably thought he was being all progressive nto to walk around in Sh*t neighborhoods.


33 posted on 04/06/2006 3:16:14 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Perhaps. But Park and 125th is not a normal place for a white NYU student to have "friends". The only reason for any member of civilization to be there after dark is to change from a Metro-North train to the Lexington Ave. subway line, and there's been no mention that the victim was doing that. More likely, he was there to purchase illegal drugs.




Very outdated view. I've lived in this area, have friends in this area, currently house-sitting in this area. I live 5 blocks south of where this happened. Keep your opinions to a non-stereotyped perspective...not all people come to 125th street to buy their drugs. When I went to NYU, if I wanted drugs, all I would have had to do was jump over to Washington Square Park (this said not from experience, but from knowledge of the area). Why travel all the way up to central harlem to get your drugs...seems a bit...crazy.

I definitely feel this would be a whole other case if the racial profiles were reversed. Communities would be up in arms, I would have to wade through piles of reporters and news people on my way to work each morning. Sadly, I did not hear of this until this morning on my way to work. Ironic, no? And in my mind, my heart went out to him even more when I found out what spurred the attack. Most new yorkers past by the homeless, ignoring their existence. this kid stopped to provide a bit of assistance...ironic how he got repaid for that.

Does anyone know any information about where to send cards or such to family?


34 posted on 04/10/2006 6:34:39 AM PDT by Densmi (living in the Harlem 120's and drug free....)
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To: BronzePencil

That this was even mentioned in a newspaper is usprising. Normally "whites" like this kid are throwaways to PC dogma, perhaps this kid was from some rich family.


35 posted on 04/10/2006 6:37:53 AM PDT by junta (It's Jihad stupid! It's the borders stupid! "From the halls of Montezuma...")
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To: ECM
Stop persecuting drugs! The War on Drugs is an unmitigated evil! Potheads NEVER do anything bad--they just want to hang out, eat, and pet kittens!!

/average legalize drugs robot on FR

No kidding. If it wasn't for that evil pot, these fine citizens wouldn't have missed their Math Club meeting and their afternoon volunteering at the local Senior center.

36 posted on 04/10/2006 6:43:48 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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