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

By Queerty Staff November 27, 2009 at 9:46am · Updated on December 10, 2009

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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3 Comments*

chris

Good, hope those fuckers get life.
Let’s see them fight off all the homos who are gonna be rapin their sorry asses

November 27, 2009 at 7:59pm
Scott Anthony

Source? My friend in PR says this is still undecided, and I don’t see other articles about this.

November 27, 2009 at 9:32pm
Keith Kimmel

No. 2 · Scott Anthony

Source? My friend in PR says this is still undecided, and I don’t see other articles about this.

http://news.google.com/news?q=Jorge%20Hate%20Crime
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=99447

November 28, 2009 at 7:02pm

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