"We've heard that there were some specific students, an identifiable group of students, that had specifically targeted Jamey, or had been picking on him for a period of time," Police Chief John C. Askey told the Buffalo News. Lady Gaga has launched a campaign to make bullying a crime in honor of Jamey, who thanked her on his last Tumblr message before his suicide.
U.S. News - Breaking News and Latest Headlines
Celebrity News, Photos and Videos - HuffPost Celebrity
LGBT News, Culture, Opinion and Conversations
Saturday, September 24, 2011
COMMITTED: Cops Weigh Charges in Bullying Suicide!
Police are weighing criminal charges against three alleged teenage bullies who taunted a 14-year-old gay student for almost a year before he committed suicide, according to authorities. Jamey Rodemeyer killed himself earlier this week after blogging repeatedly about the bullying. No bullying laws exist in New York state, so the Amherst Police Department is weighing charges of harassment, cyber harassment, or hate crimes.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
(AP) A lot of people are happy to see same-sex marriage legal in New York: lawyers, marriage counselors, insurance agents. The effect of N...
-
Image: Courtesy Richard Termine by MK Scott Someone suggested I see the Classic Goldoni Play, The Servant with Two Masters , currently...
-
Even in the age of Rotten Tomatoes when all of film criticism is distilled into handy rubrics and composite grades, Roger Ebert's famil...
-
Politico reports on Ann Coulter's appearance at Homocon in New York City last night. The event was put on by the conservative gay grou...
-
by MK Scott OUTscene Editor The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner now on tour at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre with The Tony winning star, Al...
-
They say a crisis brings people together and Will certainly has one on his hands. His crazy mom Sami, never more infuriating, badger...
-
June 1991 If you are of an older generation, and especially a gay man, you probably remember reading or hearing about a July 3, 1981, Ne...
-
by Eddie Walker Episode 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race was crazy as usual. It was this season’s “Snatch Game” episode. And for the most par...
-
by MK Scott Just in time for the holidays--the season of many potentially strained family dinners--comes "Winning Dad," a movie...
-
By MK Scott OUTscene Editor Usually I bring Ryan Burr ( OUTscene' s resident reviewer) with me to events like this, but since it w...
Contributors/Series
Our Favorite Sites
- Boy Culture
- Deep Dish
- Edge Seattle
- Fancast
- GLBT Yellow Pages
- Gay Crawler
- Gay Dating on OneGoodLove.com
- Greg in Hollywood
- Jesse Archer
- Kenneth in the 212
- Mark's List in Florida!
- Newser
- Out in Seatttle
- PQ Monthly
- Planet Homo
- Queer Me Up
- Seattle Gay News
- Smoking Cocktail
- The Stranger
- Towleroad
- Trans Lives Matter
- Views from a Broad
- We Love Soaps
- Wicked Gay Blog
Creative Commons License
OutView Online by MK Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.outviewonline.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.outviewonline.com/p/contact-us.html.

No comments:
Post a Comment