One Iowa in the News: Hate, prejudice all too familiar, Des Moines vigil speakers say
from The Des Moines Register.
Organizers said they were hoping for 25 people, at most, for the hastily arranged Thursday night vigil honoring slain Waterloo teen Marcellus Andrews.
Instead, more than 100 people marched from the Blazing Saddle bar to the Capitol and back, many of them clad in purple, some waving rainbow flags, most with candles.
Andrews, 19, died from severe head injuries after being beaten by several people Aug. 19. Witnesses described the attackers yelling gay slurs during the incident, and multiple gay- rights groups in Iowa have released statements, but Waterloo police said they are not investigating the death as a hate crime.
...“Tonight we are here to say that this will never happen again,” said Troy Price, the executive director of advocacy group One Iowa. “Not here. Not in Iowa.”
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