#queeryouth — Public Fediverse posts

Maxwell was arrested in July and faces second-degree assault as a hate crime — a class C felony — plus weapons and child-endangerment counts.

He was humming. That was the provocation.

#LGBTQ #QueerNews #HateCrime #NYC #TransRights #Solidarity #Journalism #News #QueerYouth #Politics #History

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-skynet-is-coming-we-are-all-dead?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
2/2

On 29 April, around six in the evening, at the Baruch Playground on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a man told a twelve-year-old boy to watch his belongings. The boy didn't answer him. He was singing and humming to himself.

Prosecutors say Kevin Maxwell screamed an anti-gay slur at him, walked off, came back with a belt, and beat him with it while calling him gay.
#LGBTQ #QueerNews #HateCrime #NYC #TransRights #Solidarity #Journalism #News #QueerYouth #Politics #History

1/2