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Dharun Ravi: ‘I Wasn’t Biased’

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Said he ‘wasn’t uncomfortable’ with Tyler Clementi.

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The Newark Star-Ledger has scored the first interview with Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers student who was convicted of a biased intimidation, a hate crime last week. Ravi was convicted on 15 counts after using his web cam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, during a sexual encounter in the fall of 2010. “I wasn’t biased," Ravi told the paper. "I didn’t act out of hate and I wasn’t uncomfortable with Tyler being gay." Clementi committed suicide after he learned that Ravi had used a web cam to spy on his Clementi’s encounter.

Read it at The Newark Star Ledger