Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado’s Murder Will Be Treated as a Hate Crime

The murder of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado will be treated as a hate crime by the Puerto Rico Department of Justice. It’s a possibility we floated earlier, just weeks after the passage of the Matthew Shepard Act.

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