A 17-year-old New Yorker has been arrested and is being prosecuted for the racist and homophobic murder of a black and gay dancer, the mayor and police announced on Saturday.
O’Shae Sibley, 28, was stabbed to death with a single stab wound to the chest on July 29 at a Brooklyn gas station. Since then, this alleged intentional homicide has caused great emotion in the African-American and LGBTQ + communities of the megalopolis.
From Coast to Coast we are celebrating the life of O’Shea Sibley. With love from LA, Rest in power 🫶🏾🫶🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/CdiEPtO8cS
— George M Johnson Boy (@IamGMJohnson) August 5, 2023
During a press conference at the scene of the tragedy, the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, and a chief of the municipal police (NYPD), Joe Kenny, announced charges for “hate crime” against the teenager, who visited on Friday evening. Most of the drama was caught on cameras at the gas station where it happened.
This is the video footage of O’Shae Sibley and his friends ‘pulling up’ on a 17 year old, and the 17 year old (red shorts) backing down while the owner of the gas station attempts to de-escalate. Clearly, Sibley (pink shorts) pushed past the old man and charged the young man. pic.twitter.com/1z5lMn2PsW
— The American Tijani (@MartialArtMuz) August 3, 2023
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Last Saturday, O’Shea Sibley and other men, seen in shorts and shirtless in these images, shown on television, stop by car at this Brooklyn gas station. “As they waited to refuel their vehicle, Mr. Sibley and his group began dancing to music from their car stereo,” Officer Kenny said.
At that time, a “violent argument” broke out with other young people. “The group started shouting at Mr Sibley and his friends, belittling him and hurling homophobic slurs at him,” the officer said. The alleged attackers “also made hostile remarks to black people, demanding that they simply stop dancing”. The confrontation lasted four minutes until O’Shae Sibley was “stabbed once” in the chest, causing his death an hour later in hospital, according to Joe Kenny’s account.
O’Shea Sibley is known in New York as a professional dancer, including “vogue” (or “voguing”), an urban dance inspired by fashion shows and performed by members of the LGBTQ+ and African-American communities. Tributes have been held for a week. Singer Beyoncé and filmmaker Spike Lee recalled her memory.
2023-08-06 10:16:00
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