Police: Rock Attack Was Hate Crime ("the mall had become too white.")

NBC-4/New York ^ | June 6, 2006 | n/a

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

There are racists all over. A complete people group should not be villified or attacked because of the actions of a few of its members, be they of European, African, Latino, Asian, etc. descent.

[Huevos Rancheros]

Jesse Jackson will soon arrive to grant him free tuition.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The man's eyes and brows look sort of European in origin.

[MindBender26]

In Florida, if someone did that, and continued to make agressive moves toward us, we could probably shoot them.

PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THE ABOVE AS LEGAL ADVICE. Consult your own attorney.

[Clemenza]

He said Graves, 20, told police "the mall had become too white."

If Graves had taken the Southern State west, he could have gone to the Green Acres Mall, which was once a wonderful place to shop and eat when I was a child, and where now you enter at your own risk. He wouldn't have any problem finding other "thugs of color" to hang out with.

That being said, Lawn Guyland is the most segregated place I have ever lived.

[RepoGirl]

Consult your own attorney.

That would be my own older brother.

I'd rather just run him over, personally--but that would probably be hard to explain to a judge! ;-)

[BushMeister]

If any of his features are "European in origin", it's from 100,000 B.C., and he's a Homo neanderthalensis.

Another mind warped by rap music and the "hate whitey"/I'm a victim culture.

[peggybac]

Where is his top lip?

[When do we get liberated?]

Hate crime legislation is stupid. Charge him with his crimes. Several counts of attempted murder.
This country was founded on freedom. Including stupidity. If he hates white people, that is his belief. Same goes for the white supremacists. If you think that way, you are ignorant and stupid in my opinion. By the same right I am free to think they are both ignorant and stupid. Allow legislation against thought crimes for a few generations, and we are headed down a slippery slope.
On the other hand trying to kill women and children is illegal. That should be punished

[dagoofyfoot]

"hate whitey/I'm a victim culture.


Just once I would like to see the white people in this area stand up with the same kind of zealousness that the black had against the "evil whites" down at the Duke scandal in Durham.

[originalbuckeye]

Sorry to correct you. I just started a new job and was informed, in the HR orientation, that only whites can be racist. Racism no longer means one race oppressing another. It means that the race of the majority (read whites) oppresses any minority (read Blacks or Latinos). This was a question that I answered and got wrong in the orientation. I thought racism was one race oppressing another, in other words race on race bigotry. IMHO, the powers that be have changed the meaning of racism. According to the HR dept. at my new hospital, only whites can commit racism.

[hosepipe]

[ "the mall had become too white." ]

Micheal Jackson white, Tony Brown white, Julian Bond white, Barack Obama white -or- Steve Martin white?..

[Fiji Hill]

Isn't every crime a hate crime?

Are hate crimes worse than love crimes, such as homicides resulting from the infidelity of a spouse or lover?

[When do we get liberated?]

If 2 people make aggressive moves (open to interpretation) towards you, that is threatening with deadly force. You can draw and fire. If you are carrying concealed and one unarmed man makes threatening moves toward you, you cannot draw and fire. You can produce the weapon and and return the threat. If he continues, fair game. He was trying to disarm you and you have to protect #1.

Correct me if I am wrong. I always like to be updated.

[When do we get liberated?]

sorry, I responded to the part about "and continued to make aggressive moves" thought we were talking abhout a different situation. Damned Yuengling....

[When do we get liberated?]

yeah, those are ok.

[Dallas59]

Wow! Great Big Head!!! GIANT HEAD!!! BIG BIG HEAD!!!

[Free ThinkerNY]

This happened around June 6, 2006. He could be a victim of 6-6-6 Syndrome. The Devil made him do it. On the other hand, he could just be a sub-mental racist piece of human waste matter with all the intellect of a constipated flea.

[Dallas59]

[RandallFlagg]

"IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!"