Tinsley found himself in trouble again in 2009 when he printed a strip mocking the idea of hate crimes right after the one-year anniversary of the violent murder of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero, which was ruled a hate crime. This event sparked a protest where picketers gathered at the office of "Newsday", the Long Island-based paper that had run the strip in question. The protesters felt that the strip was in poor taste and disrespected the memory of the murder victim. Newsday later issued a statement, saying: