Lawyer Henry Hendron won’t serve any jail time after supplying his teen boyfriend with the drugs that killed him, but of course, he’s the real victim here.
At least, that’s exactly what you’d be primed to think after reading CNN’s awful, shameful, infuriating story about the fateful night 35-year-old Hendron’s 18-year-old Colombian boyfriend Miguel Jiminez died after mixing GHB with alcohol:
“I woke up and turned him over,” remembers Hendron of that winter’s morning in January last year. “Mouth frozen, blood there, clearly dead.”In desperation, he performed CPR on his boyfriend until the ambulance arrived — “It must have been four or five minutes I was doing it, it felt like a lifetime.”“At one point blood starts to trickle out of his mouth, and I’m thinking ‘he must be alive.’ But he’s not. I’ve broken his ribs or something, and moving that blood around.”When the police arrived, Hendron’s nightmare only worsened.
Yes, Hendron’s nightmare worsened after Jiminez died.
Hendron and Jimenez had been dating for about a year, and Hendron estimates he spent about $1,400 per weekend on various drugs during “PnP” or “chemsex” sessions.
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But, you know, it’s OK because he has a very posh upbringing:
Growing up in a well-to-do area of west London, Hendron’s dentist father died when the twins were babies. Today Hendron speaks with the cut-glass English accent of a privileged upbringing.When Hendron talks of the heartache of Jimenez’s death, and the deeply personal details of his sex life, it is matter-of-factly. In a manner befitting a barrister.
…cut-glass English accent of a privileged upbringing. A manner befitting a barrister. CNN, we have a problem.
This writer has to be an intern, because we just can’t believe that CNN would pay someone to produce a single-sourced puff-piece “story” that makes the man responsible for his boyfriend’s death a noble victim of his privileged upbringing.
By the way, Hendron was sentenced to 140 hours of pro-bono work at London’s Central Criminal Court.
So, if you’re paying attention: the victim wasn’t the teenage working-class Colombian man who lost his life, it was the wealthy and privileged Englishman from a “privileged” upbringing who was just utterly destroyed by the entire situation.
And CNN, we’re happy that you’re covering LGBT issues, but you’re going to have to do better than this.
A lot better.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Are you surprised? CNN has gone from a credible news agency to the left wing version of Fox News in just a couple of years. But if you really want to be honest stop calling the 18 year old the boyfriend and call him a houseboy. That’s what he really was. Calling these arrangements “relationships” is just as ridiculous as the CNN article.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Well done judge Rob Smith for restraining yourself from the additional charges of “white” and “cis” … I know it must’ve been very difficult for you. And now the court of Tumblr is dismissed!
Josh447
Noone is responsible for the 18yr olds death but himself. He’s a legal adult. If anything they were both self victimized by drug addiction. Just another sad statistic.
Black Pegasus
White privilege.
Next….
Sluggo2007
@Black Pegasus: White privilege my ass! You racist bitch! He got off because he’s a lawyer!
Stache
You’d think someone would’ve educated junior on proper drug use. It’s a well known fact that GHB and alcohol don’t mix. GHB is best done with meth. Jeez.
MacAdvisor
Gendron was hardly treated as the victim by the courts, he was convicted of a crime and given a sentence of community service. I think holding him responsible for the death of Jimenez, as pointed out above by Josh447, is reasonable given Jimenez took the drugs of his own free will. To call given someone drugs who then take them of their own free will is to willfully ignore personal responsibility.
billjones
“the man responsible for his boyfriend’s death”
What? The man responsible for Jimenez’s death is Jimenez. He chose took the drugs that killed him.
YoungRepublicanNYC
I do G all the time. EVERYONE KNOWS you don’t mix G with Alcohol.
Holy shit, why was his boyfriend so stupid and why did this lawyer date someone so stupid in the first place?
YoungRepublicanNYC
@YoungRepublicanNYC: Addendum: Never died, overdosed or even PASSED OUT from G.
joeyty
The position Queerty/Rob Smith is taking here is just weird.
Stache
@YoungRepublicanNYC:I haven’t done G in many years. However, it’s very easy to overdose on it. Just a very small amount is the fine line between a good time and an overdose. You don’t always know the strength of it either.
I used to buy it at GNC back in 2000. The one I liked was called Blue Nitro. It was actually suppose to be used as a Body Building supplement. How the fuck that happened I’ll never know. They also sold speed too. Ephedrine products were very popular. Ah the good ol days when every place from GNC to 7/11 truly had all you needed for a great night out.
Interesting side note. That UK serial killer Stephen Port used GHB to kill his victims.
Captain Obvious
Wow I’m actually surprised this was written on Queerty. This site seems to be changing for the better. Honestly considering how long the information has been out about how long it takes for the human brain to fully develop its rather silly that 18 is considered a legal adult. If your age is trailed by the word teen you are not yet an adult. A 35 year old man has no business being with an 18 year old. This kid died before he even truly understood the world. I know people like to pretend you somehow “get it” at 18 but most don’t real,y tap into adulthood until their mid 20s or early 30s unless they had a hard life that forced them to grow up early(and even they make a ton of mistakes a true adult wouldn’t).
CNN’s stance doesn’t surprise me. Certain liberals will smile in your face and stab you in the back. Not all conservatives are wrong or bad people.
If this kid had rich parents with a good legal team you better believe this 35 year old and his complex would be getting the OJ treatment. Sad.
bccnyy1990
Kind of like how Ian Reisner in NYC got away with absolutely nothing after Sean Verdi OD’d in his apartment. Amazing how no drugs were found on the scene. It’s amazing what money can do…
tham
Sorry but the 18 year old is responsible for his own action.
scotshot
@Captain Obvious: “It’s morning again in America.”
nycbklyn
Lefties are so anti-white its ridiculous thats why I changed to libertarian from democrat, is there evidence that the lawyer drugged him?? No so than hes not responsible, how do we know he “provided” them… Did he go purchase and return with them and than administer them, no evidence of that so no hes not responsible…. Now according to liberals just being a white man makes you wrong… Wakeup white gay men no matter what you do you’re still white
MacAdvisor
@Captain Obvious:
” A 35 year old man has no business being with an 18 year old.”
Yes, the 18-year old should be with me, a 58-year old.
Mark
Fucking green card situation…people shouldn’t try these stupid drugs in the first place. I never have and never will…
joeyty
@MacAdvisor: lol
Masc Pride
@joeyty: It’s the usual race-baiting from this particular writer. Just click on his name and look at the tone of most of his previous posts.
The only thing “awful, shameful and infuriating” is attempting to vilify a guy that just lost someone he cared about through reckless partying that was totally consensual. I see nothing that says Hendron held Jimenez under duress and forced him to mix GHB with alcohol. This wasn’t a man with a child. The use of the word “teen” is a pretty shameless effort to exaggerate the age difference and vilify Hendron. These were two men partying and playing; one just happened to be younger than the other. It’s definitely traumatic for someone close to you to die under these circumstances. This situation is sad for both sides. There are no villains here. CNN’s story is certainly less slanted than Queerty’s account.
joeyty
@nycbklyn: Remember what Queerty practically said about Don Imus ? (Let’s see if this post stays here or if the censors….)
joeyty
@Masc Pride: Note how they deleted my post ?? LOL. Talk about the Gaystapo.
joeyty
@Masc Pride: But thanks for the info.
Bauhaus
@nycbklyn:
Hendron provided the drugs. He admitted to providing the drugs. “Hendron pleaded guilty in March to two counts of possession with intent to supply mephedrone and GBL.” – CNN.
ProudToBeKevin
Men like these give all of us in the LGBTQIA community a bad name. I don’t doubt that love can happen between a middle-aged man and a barely-legal foreign teenager. I don’t doubt sexual tolerance exists between even greater age gaps than that. The use of illegal substances always leads to a deserved ending.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I don’t know if it’s just me, but i’m surprised that Americans view everything through the lenses of Race.
Now don’t get me wrong, i’m sure every society and culture looks through the prism of race, but it seems you guys are hung up on this prism, rather than being a factor, it comes off as the end all be all.
A side note; what the hell is this obsession with drugs? I enjoy a little bit of this, or a little bit of that every once in-awhile but who the hell spends hundred of dollars weekly on drugs?
Are we that unhappy as a society?
joeyty
@Masc Pride: LOL. I got posts deleted because I criticized Barbra streisand too.
DCguy
@Hussain-TheCanadian:
I understand your comment, but I think that the issue they were talking about is. “How would CNN have reported the story if the older man was a 35 year old African American man who worked as a truck driver. My guess is, they wouldn’t have been holding him out as the poor victim of a lost boyfriend.
fryansmith
@YoungRepublicanNYC: How was he so stupid? Well, he’s 18 years old for one. How much stupid shit did you do at that time in your life? I know I did a lot. Also, maybe he wasn’t educated about drugs? Hard to speculate ‘why someone is so stupid’. Also, good to note that they were doing $1,400 in drugs per week which may also allude to ‘why the were so stupid.’ G is fucking stupid if you ask me, so maybe I ask ‘why are you so stupid’?
Masc Pride
How does “If he was black” even enter this conversation when no one in this case was black? Very telling. Had this been a Colombian-American lawyer from a privileged background that was with a young, white guy from a less privileged background, the story most likely would’ve been reported the same way. CNN’s account (which totally mentions Hendron’s charges) doesn’t portray anyone as a “victim”; they’re just not vilifying the “evil, privileged white guy” like Rob Smith is trying to do.
@Hussain-TheCanadian: It’s really the writer that decided to put the racial spin on this story. The users here with the “If he was black” replies are also very obsessed with making everything about race. You’ll see the same names making the same case in other stories. If it’s not about race, they will make it so!
@joeyty: Totally not surprised. Miss Kinser deleted anything about Babs that was less than a glowing review. Really sad when a grown man takes his diva fanaticism that seriously.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@DCguy: I understand what you’re saying forsure; for me, the politics of race is unacceptable, I find it horrifying that American politicians, pundits and whomever are allowed to use it under the guise of “freedom of speech” – White Americans and Black Americans have a shared cultural values, so I don’t understand why people fall for this racism so easily.
The CNN writer is obviously biased, and the way this story is being portrayed is nasty to say the least; we also don’t have all the facts and why did Hendron get a light sentence, but jumping the gun on race doesn’t help.
YoungRepublicanNYC
If this lawyer Henry Hendron ever wants to date an intelligent, cute, responsible G-user, look me up.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@Masc Pride: I really do believe that making everything about race is very dangerous to a society, its not healthy at all – I do agree with you that I think that this case has to do with status and wealth than with race – I also agree with your comparison.
DCguy
@Hussain-TheCanadian:
I think the issue is, how many stories do we read about armed white people that are not shot before being arrested and contrast those with stories of unarmed black people shot when stopped by police.
There are verifiable differences in the way different races are treated by police and courts. The fact that you do not want racism to be an issue is nice, but doesn’t change facts. For example, the second that the voting rights act was gutted by the Supreme Court because Justice Roberts said something very similar (Racism isn’t an issue) A majority of the states from the old confederacy immediately put in place laws that makes it harder for poor people or minorities to vote.
onthemark
@Hussain-TheCanadian: “we also don’t have all the facts and why did Hendron get a light sentence…”
Come on, we know WHY he got a light sentence: he’s in the U.K. Hell, if he’d stabbed the guy to death he’d have got maybe 5 years.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@DCguy: You have a valid point in your observations for sure; in away, I think you answered my question indirectly by saying that the American public, with all of its racial components, are forced to look at each other through the prism of race due to these laws? Would that be fair to say?
Ari Gold
But isn’t meth illegal? How does he not get charges filed against him for supplying this guy with it? Especially if it killed him?
Eclatant
@Captain Obvious: At least one person gets it. It’s really disturbing (at best) that so many gay men** love to use the arbitrariness of age-of-majority laws to justify their ephebiphilia.
**Straight men, too, but they’re not the subject right now.
Stache
@YoungRepublicanNYC: Good job trolling Mr “young republican” and the many other screen names you’ve taken Brian. No one’s falling for it though.
YoungRepublicanNYC
@Stache: I just signed up for Queerty yesterday so I could comment on that bullshit Dan Savage video where he supposedly “owned” Ann Coulter.
I chose this username, carefully and deliberately, and I find it offensive that you think I’d choose another username as vanilla as “Brian.”
Feel free to grovel at the feet of an admin and request my IP Address if you think I’m using more than one username. I don’t know who Brian is, and what he did to hurt you, but I’m not Brian.
Your paranoia is showing, ‘Stache. Lay off the T and stick with G.
Guuuuurl Get over yourself. Not everyone on the Internets is spending their time trying to pull one over on you. I’m way too busy jacking off furiously and falling over from too much G to pay you any more mind than I already have.
Stache
@YoungRepublicanNYC: “I chose this username, carefully and deliberately”
Well, now that I at least believe. Your no newbie here though. Please.
Rob Smith
From a media criticism standpoint, I found this article weak because it’s so obviously single sourced and written from the perspective of the attorney. To me, this had little to do with race and everything to do with class and the fact that the attorney was obviously heavily involved in the story (and even provided pics!) It’s telling and not at all surprising that people have taken it as some kind of attack on the lawyer for being white and not on CNN for allowing such a story to be printed in the first place. I think that has more to do with some of these readers’ own biases because they know they’re reading a black writer than with anything I explicitly stated in the article. Those biases were there long before me and will be there long after I’ve moved on.
tom81
The CNN article is clearly a “sex, drugs, death” BS click bait story. This isn’t an actual news report on the event itself, which is over a month old.
Of course the irony is if the CNN story had been more critical of Hendron we be reading an outrage story about “homophobic undertones” and “perpetuating negative stereotypes about gay men and sex/drugs.”
The professionally offended will also manage to find an angle to get worked up about.
surreal33
Speak truth to power!!!!!!!!
surreal33
The article is glaring example of HYPOCRISY within the gay community and gay media.
Gay community and gay media GLAMORIZE drugs, teenage boy-toys, unhealthy/inappropriate relationships (old men fucking teens barely old enough to consent) unsafe sex. Now the gay community and gay media want to cry foul because a privileged, white man, literally gets away murder? The fact that DRUGS, UNSAFE SEX, OLD MEN FUCKING TEENAGERS, is not only acceptable within the gay community and gay media, but it viewed as a goals to aspire to.
That is the PROBLEM not CNN doing the usual sleazy expose. CNN would not have a story if the gay community did not condone UNSAFE SEX, DRUGS AND OLD MEN PAYING TEENAGE BOYS FOR SEX!!!!!!!!!!!
onthemark
@surreal33: Oh bullsh*t. In case you didn’t notice, we’re on “gay media” right now and I’ve never seen Queerty GLAMORIZE (or even glamorize) any of those things. Queerty tells the bad news about drugs and unsafe sex. Queerty makes endless fun of old men fucking teenagers.
If for some reason you are stuck in some nasty little corner of the “gay community” where they glamorize these things, try getting out more.
Masc Pride
@surreal33: Totally agree with you on the glaring hypocrisy. However, Hendron didn’t “murder” Jimenez. Totally consensual party and play gone awry. Good points on all the rest.
onthemark
@Eclatant: “The arbitrariness of age-of-majority laws”?
I always wonder what exactly guys like you and Captain Obvious really want. Do you want the age of legal adulthood to be raised to 25? Maybe 30? Voting, drinking, driving, military, the whole bit? Don’t you think the adult “kids” would object to your plan?
Aromaeus
CNN is not left wing. CNN is trash that tries to be neutral but just ends up providing air time to the worst of humanity. They spend like 90% of their airtime these days talking about trump.
Also white people denying white privilege. shocker.
onthemark
@Masc Pride: Of course, you and the aptly-named “surreal” have no examples whatsoever of the supposed “glaring hypocrisy.” Just the usual vague, gauzy, libelous attacks on the “gay community” so you guys can pretend to feel superior to it. Whatever you think it is!
Franklin
@Hussain-TheCanadian: R@ce colors a lot of peoples views of things in America because this country has a history of has a history steeped in irrational fears based on it. Do a google search something to get an idea of some of the ridiculous things people used to believe about people of color in the United States. Also, this wasn’t that long ago. We’re not but a couple of not generations removed from segregation. In fact my mother went to a segregated high school. Anyone who goes around believing that r@ce doesn’t play a least some part in how a person is treated in the country crime wise is fooling themselves. When the perpetrator or the victim of a crime is Caucasian and especially attractive, they usual garner a lot more sympathy from the public which end up being a jury. For example read this article below. Observe the sanitized language. It’s not a crack house, it’s a cocaine apartment.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/05/doctor-overdoses-at-high-society-nyc-cocaine-apartment.html
spemat
oh, I guess I can’t post because I note the bisexual perspective. Right. Only useful for votes. Got it.
spemat
@spemat: Okay?? well as I stated this has a creepy and disgusting feel to it. Almost like the white pedos going to Thailand to prey on the non-white kids who are poor and downtrodden. And not to be mean, they are not the least bit attractive so I get why they needed drugs to find each other attractive. But as a bisexual, I am only into other bisexuals who have self pride and are not trying to be hetero or homosexual. So I wouldn’t find either of them attractive anyhow as I am not part of that culture and am not interested in it.
spemat
and say what you want about “my kind” and rightly so as there are some scummy bisexuals, though very few. You won’t see us white bi dudes cruising the ghetto looking for some poor kid to prey on. I wouldn’t doubt if he started nailing him at age 14. I have seen that more than once.
joeyty
@Franklin: I think U.S. people become fixated on race because different races act in ways that seemingly reafffirm everyone’s stereotyes. We actually see Indians becoming doctors and wnning the spelling bees over and over, no matter how much the politically-correct try to tell us that’s not true. (But that was still a goofy excuse for the writer of this article to take the angle he did).
DavidIntl
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: I do not know the real nature of their relationship, and presumably you don’t either. Why do you insist, then, on belittling it? My partner – we are in a civil union – is 19, and 29 years my junior. That does not mean that our relationship is not serious, or balanced. Coming from a far more affluent background than me, he is most certainly not a houseboy…
Franklin
@joeyty: Maybe it’s just a matter of exposure then and people getting out of their bubbles to break those stereotypes. I have met many African-American doctors, lawyers, and investment bankers, but then again I have more contact with African-American people. In fact the there have been several news stories as of late of African-American youth getting accepted to multiple, if not all ivy league institutions in this country. Both our President, the first Lady, and now their daughter have been accepted into ivy league schools. Is this enough to wear down some of the stereotypes you speak of , or is there be something more at work here that we have overcome?
Masc Pride
Oh Rob, to now claim that you were only outraged by CNN’s article seems like total BS given what you wrote about other details of this unfortunate situation. You made a point to include that Hendron is English and Jimenez was Colombian. You made a point to refer to Jimenez as a teenager and Hendron as priviledged. Your writing was meant to emphasize class AND race. If you read these comments, readers of different races picked up on the racial tone you totally meant to set. You’re pointing the finger at CNN for being biased, but your writing is pretty biased as well. But yeah, blame the readers for misinterpreting it all.
@joeyty: The writer totally meant to present the angle he did, and now he’s backpedaling.
You’re totally right about those spelling bees! lol
Hermes
1. The age of consent in England is 16 – which is a fine age for it – I was having sex at 13 and I’ve never regretted it. those who feel otherwise need to keep their fingers and mouths off from other people’s rights.
2. There is no age of consent for illegal drugs – thus the illegal designation. These drugs are a problem. Sex is the most wonderful thing on earth, particularly with a guy who you love. Why would anyone need or ever ever ever want to use a drug with it – that goes beyond stupid.
Simply put the problem here is the drugs, not the sex and not the age. The boy loved him, he loved the boy – that is only a problem in the mind of a sad cynical failure at life. Drugs? Orgies? (Drug-fueled orgies) those things should NEVER happen. They are a problem.
I know that my views are sometimes too raw and direct for folk – but those are my views. The problem wasn’t that they were having sex, in any way shape or form – it is that they were taking drugs. That’s what killed the poor boy.
If this lawyer has any soul at all he will lie awake many nights for the rest of his life in anguished memory. The boy was beautiful, his love for the man is evident even in the picture posted here. The man says he loved him too — he should NEVER forget, NEVER forgive himself. NEVER EVER EVER fail to act against drugs, to act to help others to act to change the world – and Miguel should never leave his thoughts.
That would be some tiny measure of justice, and proof of humanity on the part of the man who influenced a poverty stricken boy from Columbia to take the drugs he had apparently escaped in his homeland.
May Miguel be encompassed in light and love and return to the wheel renewed. Blessed be he.
joeyty
@Franklin: Obama and Mrs and their daughters are certainly admirable examples of African-Americans, but AAs still have a murder rate four times as high as before the Civil Rights era. So there seems to be a split. Just as a generalization, I suspect the “Obama types” will go on and prosper and assimilate and the Englewood gangsta types will kill themselves off.
joeyty
@Masc Pride: “You’re totally right about those spelling bees! lol” It IS almost comical by now. (But good for them, I say).
Franklin
@joeyty: Citations for that date please?
Franklin
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onthemark
@Hermes: You had me up until “poverty stricken boy from Columbia” – talk about stereotypes, not everyone from Colombia is poverty-stricken. The linked story doesn’t say that. He may even have been a rich kid.
I find it much, much stranger that the English lawyer’s mother didn’t even realize he was gay, when he was well over 30 years old, until she read about his arrest in the newspaper (if the Daily Mail counts as a newspaper). Weird. There’s a screwy family dynamic there that may explain the drug-taking.
joeyty
@Franklin: I certainly don’t have any citations for that, but just by judging what’s going on so far I think the Obamas will always achieve.
joeyty
@Rob Smith: I didn’t know you were black. I figured you were a white social-justice-warrior.
mawbinatl
I’ve read a lot of the comments here but not all; so if I repeat a sentiment that already has been stated, I apologize.
A young man of meager means has died. He was possibly influenced by someone of ample means. So race, IMO, has nothing to do with this but class certainly does come into play. Being of Colombian descent myself, I know that many Colombians do not have the resources or the wealth of many of their European or American counterparts. Hell, $300 USD is over $1 million Colombian pesos and $1,400 is, well, astronomical to someone who probably has never seen that kind of money.
Possibly, the young impressionable eighteen year old was doing things just to please his wealthy boyfriend [benefactor] for fear of losing him and/or what he provided.
The bottom line is someone died and no one is taking responsibility or serving any time for facilitating that death. How about blaming and indicting the person who 1) supplied the drugs to the departed and 2) indict the person for allowing someone obviously not familiar with the drug that he was supplying for allowing him to drink alcohol knowing the consequences.
It’s a case of criminal facilitation and negligent homicide or negligent manslaughter.
Franklin
@joeyty: I was actually talking about your claim the African-Americans still have a murder rate four times as high as before the Civil Rights era; and yes, the Obama’s as well as many other African-Americans will continue to achieve despite peoples misguided stereotypes.
Masc Pride
@mawbinatl: Wouldn’t negligent homicide mean Jimenez was unaware of what he was consuming. Jimenez had a totally voluntary part in what killed him. We also don’t know that Jimenez wasn’t familiar with the drug. Highly unlikely this was the first time they PNP’ed. I’m sorry but you have to have some PNP experience under your belt to even attempt to go this hard. It’s was just an unfortunate result this time, but I don’t think it even qualifies as negligent homicide.
Chris
I can’t believe it; but I think that this article is little more than trying to sensationalize the age difference between two adults. It’s sad and unfortunate that one of them died. It’s even sadder that the one who died had just entered adulthood and lack the sort of social status that protects one from a lot of stuff. But as far as I can tell, the 18 year old was a willing participant in the events that led to his death. I fail to see why such a snarky tone was adopted for this article if not out of age-shaming.
joeyty
@Franklin: I forget where I found that. Just google “African American murder rate since 1950s” or something.
Merv
So, the lesson we are to draw is that interracial and intergenerational relationships can lead to death? Only an idiot would conclude that. The proper conclusion is that irresponsible drug use can lead to death. The only difference I can see between the moralizers here and the Christian moralizers is that the Christians would have added an admonition against homosexuality. I wish some of the people above would study basic logic. If the 18 year old had been taking drugs with another 18 year old, would that somehow have reduced the chances of death? How about if he had been taking drugs with another Colombian? Besides that, Colombian isn’t even a race. So much logical fail!
Franklin
@joeyty: When I googled the statistic you gave me, the only sites that come up are right wing sites, and sites that are frequented by guys that wear pointy sheets on their heads with the eye holes cut out.
Kangol
@Bauhaus: Reading is fundamental but some of the people on here often fail to do that basic thing before commenting. Great article, though, and of course the white rich lawyer got off with community service. DUH!
joeyty
@Franklin: Okay, I’ll give a different kind of link.
joeyty
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/murder-rate-for-black-ame_b_4702228.html
joeyty
http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2015/may/21/updated-look-statistics-black-black-murders/
joeyty
http://www.uexpress.com/as-i-see-it/2016/4/15/epidemic-of-blacks-killing-blacks-hasnt
Mykey
He’ll just go pic up another young South American guy half his age and continue with his privileged life!
seaguy
Accidentally killed his boyfriend? He did not hold his bf down and force him to take those drugs so he hardly “accidentally killed him”!
mawbinatl
@Masc Pride: Actually, negligent homicide is when someone through criminal activity, such as drug use, allows others to die. In this case overdose. Similar charges were brought against people who committed the same type of crime.
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20150114/HURBLOG/150119810
http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/public-safety/2016/01/15/fatal-overdose-man-indicted-negligent-homicide-drug-felonies/78862404/
Franklin
@joeyty: What we have here is an exercise in reading statistics. What you said was African-Americans have a murder rate four times as high as before the Civil Right era, which is not correct. What this link says is that the rate is four times the national average. Crime overall including, murder has gone down and is currently at historic lows. This doesn’t even take into account the correlation between poverty and crime as there are higher rates of poverty in the African-American community. Anywhere you have poverty and a perceived lack of opportunity, you are going to have crime, regardless of race. One need only look at Eastern Europe and South America to see examples of this in practice. The majority of black people in America are not involved in violent crime, but a significant number of non-black people in the country wouldn’t know that because for many of them the only intimate contact they have with black people is on their TV screen during the nightly news. If I were just go off of images on the news, would I be right in stereotyping most white men as pedophiles? That seems the be race I see over and over again when it come to those types of incidents. I say all that to say this. Stereotypes are bs, and a crutch used by small minded and intellectually lazy people.
joeyty
@Franklin: Yes. And let’s HOPE the black on black murder rate is four times higher than it was in the 50’s, because if it was always THIS high, that’s pretty bad. I’d rather think this crime wave is a weeding out (Darwinian thing) as a reaction to the first black U.S. President , which was a wonderful thing because I think black folk, especially older ones, were really moved by the realization that it’s possible for a black man to reach the highest position in the U.S. (I think there’d always been an inkling that a black man would never get elected). And I think it inspired a lot of black youth to achieve even more. But that (ironic) murder rate in the major cities couldn’t be a coincidence…it’s got to be an anger at the whole situation or the no-more-excuses factor or something. Anyway, it’s been telling to see the split.
joeyty
@joeyty: Stereotypes are bs, and a crutch used by small minded and intellectually lazy people.” I liked the line in the series “Weeds” : “It’s r@cist to say Asians are bad drivers, but….it’s still true.”
Masc Pride
@mawbinatl: This isn’t quite the same as the cases in those links. What I’m saying is Jimenez had too much involvement in consuming and peddling this drug to blame his overdose on Hendron or Parkin. They were all taking GHB and selling it within their circle. I don’t know if you’re using the exact language of the law when you say “allows others to die”, but Hendron placed the emergency call for help.
onthemark
@joeyty: Joey, if you didn’t know Rob Smith is black, why are you going on & on & on about the (supposed) black American crime rate in comments on a story about an incident in Great Britain involving a white guy and a Colombian guy and no black people at all?
Franklin
@joeyty: Hope it’s higher? What are you talking about? The way you’re framing it makes almost makes it seem like your saying the Civil Rights movement made crime worse. Let me say it again, crime is down across the board. It is at historic lows. This is fact. Also, if memory serves me, I seem to remember another period of time in Chicago were violent crime and murder were out of control, and it wasn’t black people that were the perpetrators I’ll agree with you, many black people had a brief moment of inspiration with the election of President Obama, but that was quickly diminished after having to watch over the last 7 years every vile manner of r@cist vitriol hurled at this man and his family.
joeyty
@Franklin: “Hope it’s higher” in the sense that I think this current murder rate is a fluke, and not the norm that would have been the same rate in the 1950’s. And of course I’m not saying the Civil Rights movement made black crime worse (I don’t know what caused it…probably crack or gang culture).
joeyty
@Franklin: “that was quickly diminished after having to watch over the last 7 years every vile manner of r@cist vitriol hurled at this man and his family.” Like every President doesn’t get ripped to shreds because of who they are? Bush was the “evil Hitlerian white man.”
joeyty
@Franklin: “It is at historic lows.” Not in Englewood.
Franklin
@joeyty: Did they question President Bush’s citizenship? Did they call him a Muslim, even thought he was a Christian.(As if that was even an insult. Did they call him, his wife, and his children monkeys, or call President Bush’s wife a man? And you bring up Englewood, but we could just as easily bring Portsmouth, OH, were the population is 85% white yet the crime rate is running rampant. Guess what the common denominator is between those two places. Let me help you out. It’s poverty. The only people that believe race matters are clowns.
joeyty
@Franklin: ” The only people that believe race matters are clowns.” Oh….I’m not so sure about that. Look at the spelling bee winners year after year.
joeyty
@Franklin: And the Japanese, who are insistent that race always matters like no one else on the planet, sure aren’t clowns. They live in a virtually crime-free society.
joeyty
@Franklin: “As if that was even an insult. Did they call him, his wife, and his children monkeys, or call President Bush’s wife a man?” I remember Bush being directly compared to a monkey in cartoons and other venues. Not that that excuses caling the Obamas the same thing. I’m just saying being the President makes you a target for the worst.
Franklin
I wasn’t aware that you were a sociologist with a field of expertise on Japanese culture. I also wasn’t aware that anecdotal evidence such as spelling bee winners counted as peer reviewed data. Academia should just throw out the scientific method adopt the joeyty school of throwing bs at the wall and seeing what sticks. Like I said. Clowns.
Franklin
@joeyty: Also, I’m pretty sure N@azi Germany, a place were race really mattered, was also a virtually crime-free society.
Vidontag
A misguided, histrionic reaction to an admittedly problematic CNN piece (albeit single-sourced because it’s an interview, duh). There may well be a class / race angle worth exploring here, but Queerty’s decision instead to focus on holding Hendron “responsible” for Jimenez’s death is to me the most egregious crime against journalism here. Also, I “shared” this piece on FB in order to ridicule it, and did not appreciate my “share” becoming an automatic endorsement in the form of a “like’ – a sure sign of click-desperation, or a desire to silence one’s critics. Serious sites differentiate between “likes” and “shares”, so If Queerty respected its readers’ intelligence, it would abandon this sleight-of-hand ASAP. Cheers, all.
Rob Smith
I’m really trying to figure out how any of this became about black people, but then again, trolls will make everything about black people. How is this about black people again? Is it because I’m black? That still doesn’t explain how this became about black people. None of these people are black. How on earth did this conversation become about black people?
mawbinatl
@Masc Pride: Jiminez wasn’t the person actually purchasing the drugs. The article clearly states that Hendron was spending upwards of $1,400 a week on procuring drugs.
Jiminez may have been using the drugs but they were given to him.
The closest (and possibly not the best) analogy I can muster, is giving a loaded gun to someone and they shot and killed themselves. The person receiving the weapon may have been aware of the dangers, but not fully informed that it was loaded – like mixing GHB with alcohol. The person that purchased or owned the gun, is guilty of negligent homicide.
And the article of the man who supplied the drugs to the woman in the link that I supplied is exactly like this story.
The man (aka Hendron) bought drugs (GHB), he gave a woman (Jiminez) the drugs to take, she died of an overdose and he was charged of criminally negligent homicide. While the man in the article tried to cover up the crime by hiding evidence, the top charge of criminally negligent homicide is the one relevant to this particular story because the situation was exactly the same.
As for as Hendron calling the authorities, he was just being pre-emptive. It’s like someone setting a home on fire and calling the fire department. It deflects all suspicion and culpability from the person who is actually guilty of the crime.
Bottom line is that Jiminez died and Hendron was not charged with anything – not even an illegal drug use charge. On top of that, from what I can infer from the Queerty article, he got to keep his job as an attorney! I believe it has a lot to do with his privilege and his connection to the courts.
If Jiminez had acquired those drugs on his own and died, I wouldn’t have even commented and chalked it up to an accidental overdose death. But as it stands, Hendron purchased and supplied the drugs to Jiminez.
The punishment does not fit the crime. 140 hours of pro-bono work for procuring, supplying and using drugs and someone dying as a result of the narcotic in question is ludicrous and appalling.
frenchjr25
Interesting. The writer of this article did not prove their point in anyway. What they proved, at least to me, is that they are going to attack CNN no matter what.
The quotes offered do not prove the writers point in anyway. They actually do the opposite. The writer of this piece has made a huge mistake – they wrote it with a particular bias in mind, even though they couldn’t prove that what they are saying is actually accurate.
This is a huge problem in today’s online media world. Writers try to manipulate the facts to meet their hypothesis. A good writer would research a topic first and then write the story. And if the story didn’t turn out they way they expected they’d simply go with it.
This writer is a mess. This article is terrible. Queerty should be ashamed.