New York City ? Outraged city leaders said Saturday that the city wouldn’t tolerate the “vicious” hatred that had apparently caused a street gang to allegedly beat and torture two teenagers and a man inside an abandoned home over the course of several hours because they were gay.

Police arrested an eighth suspect in the beatings Saturday, while a ninth remained at large.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said that several of the suspects had made statements implicating themselves in the crime, which occurred in a neighborhood where residents said homosexuality is both common and tolerated.

Asked if the men had expressed any remorse for what they had done, Kelly said “I wouldn’t call it remorse.”

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was “sickened” by the violence, that police said included sodomizing one of the men with a plunger handle and hourslong torture of others.

The attack came amid heightened attention to anti-gay bullying following a string of teen suicides attributed to it last month around the country.