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Jeff Conroy Interviewed by Newsday

Posted April 25, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.
Categories: Hate Watch

According to Newsday’s interview with Jeff Conroy today, its all just a bad coincidence. The shaved head didn’t mean he was a skin, it was for wrestling. The swastika didn’t mean he was a neo-Nazi, it meant he was a fanboy of the show “Oz.” He was never a racist, even though he told jail staff that his parents held racist views and he visited white supremacist web sites.

Anyway, here are most of the quotes from Conroy that I excerpted from the article:

“I am not a racist. I am not a violent person. I am not a white supremacist,” said Conroy, who has a swastika tattoo on one thigh that he said he got “stupidly” on a dare. “People made a judgment about me.”

“I’m sorry for what happened to [Lucero’s family].” “I wish he wasn’t dead.”

“I’m outgoing. I have a good time,” Jeffrey Conroy said when asked about his personality. “People say I look angry. I guess I just look angry.”

“There is no racism in my family,” Conroy said. “None at all.”

Conroy’s father, who runs a nonprofit youth sports league, and who says his eldest son spent much of his time helping him coach children and repair equipment, said he tried to show his children by example how to treat people different from themselves. He said when he learned about the swastika tattoo from a television report after his son’s arrest, he was stunned. “I don’t think he knows what the true meaning of it is,” he said. His mother added, “As soon as he gets out, he’s having it removed.”

“It was just a joke, but it’s embarrassing,” Conroy said Friday, looking down at his hands folded in his lap. “It doesn’t mean anything to me.”

Both Conroy and his parents say they were truly taken aback when he was convicted of manslaughter. “I thought he was coming home with us,” Robert Conroy said, looking into the distance, his breathing labored.

What a sheltered life. Jeff Conroy didn’t know what a swastika means.

What a non-violent person, convicted of involvement in attacks on four immigrants over a six day period, and believed to have been involved in other attacks.

But just think of all the Latinos who he didn’t beat up.

Tags : hate crimes, hate watch, jeffrey conroy, marcelo lucero

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