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I guess this was bound to happen

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Groups press for hate-crime charges in woman’s alleged torture:

First, let me tell you my stance on hate crime legislation. Personally, I think all violent crimes are hate crimes but I’m not opposed to any legislation that keeps criminal scumbags behind bars longer.

Now let’s get to the story.

Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days.

Normally I would agree with them but this is a special case. Like I’ve mentioned before the kidnapping and sexual assault charges carry more weight than the hate crime charges. The church leaders should be more concerned about justice being done than having prosecutors file charges that at this point would be nothing more than symbolic in nature.

While black church leaders are calling for marches and protests the NAACP is taking a wait and see approach…

The NAACP said it was monitoring the case. “We expect the authorities to do the right thing in bringing the responsible parties involved in these despicable and heinous events to justice with the full weight of the law,” Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors, said in a statement.

Remember the kidnapping charges carry a max life sentence and the sexual assault charge carries a max of 35 years. The hate crime charges only carry 10 years. Let them secure the kidnapping conviction first then file hate crime charges.

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8 responses to “I guess this was bound to happen”

  1. D.P. Avatar
    D.P.

    I totally agree. Unless they just slap the ten year “Hate Crime” punishment on top of the mandatory jail time for the other charges. I’d be ok with that. 😛

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  2. Trench Avatar
    Trench

    Agreed.

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  3. BelchSpeak Avatar
    BelchSpeak

    I’m blown away by the reasonable statement by the NAACP. After all, these are the guys who wanted the charges against Mike Vick dropped.

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  4. Trench Avatar
    Trench

    It’s reasonable for now.

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  5. Endersdragon Avatar
    Endersdragon

    Isn’t the hate crimes statute just a way of adding 10 years on to the charge. I mean can you convict someone of hate crimes if you don’t convict them of the other charges. I wouldn’t really worry about the extra charge here, they still have to get the big charges.

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  6. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    We need to make all race vs. race crime where malice has occurred, hate crime defined. I am all for charging these ignorant people, as well as anyone else who feels they need to attack another race, with hate crime offenses. Why not just re-write the law and make things black and white. Then whenever a white person attacks a black man or woman, we’ll just throw the book at them. I see no problem with that.

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  7. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    for now indeed

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  8. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    me neither, so long as that hate crime book gets thrown at black people who attack white people too. I am sick of all the one sidedness that racism has in print.
    We also need to be clear on what a hate crime is, because the phrase “nappy headed hoe” should have been protected by free speech and not been a fire-able offense.

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