Did Hate Crime Killed Thien Minh Ly?
I shouldn’t have read such a disturbed article in this early hour. In “When Gunner Jay Lindberg Killed Thien Minh Ly, Was It Actually a Hate Crime?,” R. Scott Moxley describes the murder scene:
Minutes later, they [Gunner Jay Lindberg and Domenic Michael Christopher] found and trapped the unsuspecting Ly, whose last seven minutes of life were the stuff of horror flicks. Lindberg called him a “Jap,” demanded his car keys, cursed him, punched him, stomped on his head, kicked his face, slashed his throat and stabbed him 22 times—in part, to celebrate a victory earlier that evening by what Lindberg hailed as “America’s team,” the Dallas Cowboys.
I’m almost against the death penalty being as a lot of the time the judicial system fucks up. But this is a case where hate crime or not, the guy should just die.
I am with you on this one. The dude is fucked up.
Hey there donny. Sure sorry we could make the face to face. Maybe next time eh?
This story though brings back vague memories about the incident. I went to Tustin High and remember one morning they wouldn’t let us near the tennis courts.. the same courts i used to play on with the tennis team. We didn’t know that a vietnamese guy was murdered only that there was some gruesome scene out there. Up to that point, I heard our city Tustin was ranked among the top ten safest cities in the state just behind top ranked Irvine. Rankings like that don’t mean squat after something like that.. even to this day that area is dark and dimly-lit. Walking through some quiet parts of D.C. at night is a daylight stroll in comparision to that place.
Hey Joseph,
Yeah, too bad we didn’t get to meet. I hope you had fun in DC though.
I am one of the few that advocate for a more forgiving society in general but also an advocate of the death penalty. That mean less people in jail but if a crime is hideous enough then we just go for the death sentence. For every person in jail it’s costing tax pay money, and we definitely don’t need to waste our money on idiots like these.