Citing Suffolk slaying, Paterson denounces hate
"We have to remember that...America has been the product of the coming together of people," he says, noting a number of youthful hate-crime offenders. "In Suffolk, in Brooklyn and in Syracuse," he notes, "our residents have suffered brutal murders provoked by ignorance, intolerance and hate...We must make one thing plain: hate has no place right here in the Empire State."
