hate crime

Against his lawyers’ objections, a man admitted guilt in the murder of Scott Johnson, a crime authorities didn’t believe happened just five years ago.

Syre Klenke was left bloody and bruised after the attack near an LGBTQ bar. But that’s not where the discrimination ended that night.

The man also called the kid a “faggot.”

Jussie Smollett testified that Don Lemon warned him that the police weren’t buying his story.

“I’m still feeling traumatized,” said Myles Utz. “I still have PTSD about it every day. I shake, I get scared.”

Jussie Smollett could go to jail for up to three years if the two brothers convince the jury that he paid them $3500 to stage a hate crime against him.

“He said we shouldn’t be holding hands,” John-Paul Kesseler remembered, before the attacker started beating him with a wine bottle.

The attack is part of an epidemic of hate crimes currently sweeping New York City.

The attack made eating difficult and left the victim afraid to go out, but it was also “a wake up call for me to realize how precious life is.”

This is the fourth time he’s been attacked in the past year as anti-LGBTQ assaults are on the rise in his city.