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Black, Gay And Shot Dead In His Own Car: This Is Another Missouri Killing We Should Talk About

This Is Another Missouri Killing We Should Talk About
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Editorial Fellow, HuffPost

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Can you hate part of yourself so much that you want to kill people like you? And is that a hate crime?

Those are the questions being whispered at gay bars, asked behind tears in family living rooms, andt maybe even being answered by the police force here – on the other side of Missouri from Ferguson – after the shocking and complicated death of 22-year-old Dionte Greene, who was shot and killed on the morning of Halloween in his still-running car, possibly by a “straight” man who may have agreed to meet him for sex.

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