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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A jury convicted a man of manslaughter as a hate crime on Monday in the death of O\u2019Shae Sibley<\/a>, 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 Beyonc\u00e9 song.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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