A jury convicted a man of manslaughter as a hate crime on Monday in the death of O’Shae Sibley, who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station during a confrontation that began with a group of young people shouting racist and anti-gay slurs at the professional dancer and his friends as they vogued to a Beyoncé song.
Dmitriy Popov, who was 17 at the time of the killing, testified at the trial that he was just defending himself when he stabbed Sibley, 28, in 2023.
