TAKE ACTION: Gay teenager found decapitated, dismembered, and burned in Puerto Rico. Local police say he deserved it because he's gay.

UPDATE: Joe and I have created an online action center where people can send emails to Attorney General Holder asking him to have the FBI investigate this possible hate crime. Please visit the action center and send your email, then tell your friends. Thanks, JOHN

I think we now have a good reason for the Obama administration to put that Hate Crimes law into action and send someone from the Justice Department to Puerto Rico to investigate.

We won't know the facts as to whether this was truly a hate crime until someone impartial goes and gets the facts. But if in fact the local police investigator on the case told Univisión what he's reported to have said, then it's clear we need the Justice Department to intervene.

Here's the Spanish version of what the investigator reportedly told Univisión about the victim:

"Este tipo de personas cuando se meten a esto y salen a la calle saben que esto les puede pasar."

I speak Spanish fluently, so let me give you a rough translation:

Someone like that, who does those kind of things, and goes out in public, knows full well that this might happen to him.

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