TO THE COPS, SOME CRIMES JUST SEEM LESS IMPORTANT THAN OTHERS

Manny knew that 16-year-old Tyrone Davis was arrested for starting the fire. He said he knew something else.

Davis' sister shared the apartment with the victim. When the fire broke out, she climbed out a window and escaped the deadly blaze. Manny says he overheard the sister talking as she stood on the sidewalk watching her apartment go up in smoke. He doesn't know who she was talking to, but he does know this: She fingered her brother Tyrone.

"She said her brother and his friends came over to drink with her at the apartment the day before the fire. They beat the crap out of the white guy because he was gay and they threatened to come back."
Michael Despain, 24, was burned alive until he was unrecognizable, and not a single cop has bothered to get it right.

But a multi-agency law enforcement task force led by the Phoenix Police Department served notice on the 25th anniversary of Stonewall that the cops still think queers in bars need a good rousting.