I agree with Terry6206. This was a hate crime, pure and simple. Ravi and Wei were completely vicious in their actions, and targeted this kid because he was gay. Does no one remember Matthew Shepard? This is why we have hate crimes on the books.

This is a Hate Crime and should be dealt with accordingly.

Murder charges should be filed, just as in the South Hadley (MA) case of Phoebe Prince. This was bullying. This was outrageous. Five years in jail is not enough. Both deserve the severest punishment.

These kids should be charged with the HIGHEST level of punishment allowed for a case like this. My deepest and sincerest condolences to the parents of the victim. I can only imagine what they are going through. As far as the parents of the suspects…I pity them; for raising MORAL-LESS and lowlife kids. I hope these kids feel guilty for the rest of their lives.

My condolences to the family so sad. Poor guy couldn’t live with the shame awful.

A boy is dead. These two geniuses should get the maxium penalty. This obviously was premeditated. Hopeful Rutgers will immediately expell them, but who knows? What kind of parents raise children to be this cruel? I bet they are the type of people who make excuses for their children all their lives.

“Students on campus were upset and said the incident was a tremendous violation of privacy.”

i don’t think there is any guarantee of privacy – not in the constitution anyway. the 9th is ambiguous

Why wasn’t bail ordered for the female no-humanity criminal? They should be barred from any educational institution for life and if there is any justice in this world, they will both go to prison. So sorry for they young man who was victimized, humiliated and possibly blackmailed — what else is a video for?

murder? life? yeah right – probation.
kid took his own life, sad – but true.

if the kid was gay…its okay…let him be…then u will see…love is needed…we all have pleaded…love is love is love is love…its all sent from up above…to hold another in that special way…we all want it to come our way…these two pricks that made the tape…murder charges they shouldnt excape…

This poor kid could not have done anything to deserve this. These two seem really mean spirited with no concept of the golden rule. We don’t need people like them in our midst. I hope they go to prison for as long as possible. No matter what his scene was, he was not the one trying to hurt people. They need to go away.

They should be given life without parole for causing the kids death.

If he was with a hot woman he would no hve taken his life. He would have been a hero.

Yankees is another moron in the peanut gallery
Gay Straight bi etc
it should be an individuals choice to have their sexcapades plastered on the internet
Gay is not a crime and many gay people would love to put on a show for all to se
GET SOME BRAINS you IDIOT

I have to agree here if the kid was straight he would be happy about it but he sure wouldn’t jump of a bridge. I will say this these two should be charged with murder I am sure there is more to come of this like how he was being black mailed for them not to tell his parents or other student. There is a lot to be said sending young people to jail this young man and women better hope they are not preety or handsome jail is no place for you two fools..

Straight, gay or in between…who in the heck cares?!?!! What a very sad story to hear today. I work with college students …because I CHOOSE to and this hurts me to my core. I hope someday people are taught empathy and concern for others at a VERY young age. Everything we do has an impact on someone else – and even though they may have laughed their way through this “prank”, I hope their laughter has ceased and tears have set it. While they have to live with this for the rest of their lives (and I hope they do find forgiveness) – he doesn’t. My heart goes out to his friend’s and family.

I simply cannot believe that a young and obviously intelligent man is dead and all that some of you immature morons can do is speculate if he was gay or not-wow.

this kid is clearly gay and the 2 criminals were trying to embarrass or ridicule him.. sad story

These 2 neanderthals should should be charged with murder.DISGUSTING!

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who said he was gay? Not that it matters in this case…

This is extremely vicious and sad. My heart goes out to the Clementi Family. It is hard enough for a gay young man in this world. It is also hard being a Freshman in College. I am all for the charges being upgraded to manslaughter for both Ravi & Wei. This should set an example for anyone else even thinking of doing anything like this ever again. Rutgers needs to step up to the plate on this one.

Should be charged with murder- The reason why this young person killed himself was because of them.

This is more than tragic,if the behavior of these two idiots,were at all responcible for,or contributed to the death of this young man,they should recieve a jail term commensurate with their behavior…