Sheriff Says Tye Murder Probably Isn't a Hate Crime
Filed by: Alex Blaze
March 11, 2011 3:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/03/sheriff_says_tye_murder_isnt_a_hate_crime.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/03/sheriff_says_tye_murder_isnt_a_hate_crime.php)
Joe Mirabella posted about the shooting-and-dragging murder of Marcal Camero Tye earlier this week, and I wanted to point people to this interview with the Sheriff Bobby Mays who's now saying that he doesn't think it was a hate crime. He says that the dragging was an accident and that the shooting was a sexual encounter that "went wrong," as if a hate crime can't take place during or after a sexual encounter.
Also noteworthy from the interview was the sheriff saying that there's no "persecution" of transgender people in their part of Arkansas, referring to Tye with male pronouns, and said "individuals such as this" are "looking for sexual encounters" and said it was possible Tye was involved in prostitution.