O’Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old black and gay dancer, was stabbed to death with a single stab wound to the chest on July 29, 2023 at a gas station in Brooklyn, New York, USA . Since then, this alleged intentional homicide has caused great emotion in the African-American and LGBTQ + communities of the megalopolis, reports theAFP.
O’Shae Sibley was known in the American city 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, for example, hailed his memory.
A minor arrested and proceedings initiated
A 17-year-old New Yorker has been arrested and is being prosecuted for the potentially racist and homophobic murder of the dancer, the mayor and police announced on Saturday August 5, quoted by theAFP.
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.
The filmed facts
Most of the drama was filmed by cameras at the gas station where it happened, the news agency said. Last Saturday, O’Shae Sibley and other men, seen in shorts and bare chested in these television images, stopped by car at this Brooklyn gas station.
As they waited to refuel their vehicle, O’Shea Sibley and his band began dancing to music from their car stereo, Officer Joe Kenny related. At that moment, a violent argument broke out with other young people.
The group began yelling at O’Shea Sibley and his friends, belittling him and hurling homophobic slurs at him, the officer said. The alleged attackers also made anti-black remarks, 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.
2023-08-09 11:21:07
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