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Originally Posted by EULA
The funny thing about the matthew shepard things is that everyone but the police were saying it was a hate crime. The attackers were coming off of a 3-day meth bender and one of the attackers was bisexual and had a sexual encounter with shepherd some time before the attack. They walked into the situation wanting the contents of his wallet.
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I'm not intimately familiar with the details of the case, but if they just wanted the contents of his wallet, there was no cause to beat him, burn him, and leave him tied to a fence to die. Further, one of the defendants tried to mount a "gay panic" defense, arguing that he had had traumatic homosexual experiences earlier in his life, and that Shepard came on to him, triggering his rage and panic. Sounds a bit like a "hate crime" to me. Shepard was murdered because he was gay and had tangled with the wrong homophobes.