uhhh....after all those state counts of capital murder, what’s the point?
Black justice
Same point as hanging, drawing and quartering Oliver Cromwell after he died!
“what’s the point?”
Practice for DOJ staff attorneys at taxpayer expense.
Frankly, I think the chances for conviction would not only be small, they could possibly engender an insanity defense. He sat with those people for an hour before shooting.
Its about earning brownie points...
Silly, liberalism IS a mental disorder.
To pad statistics
“Hate crime” comes under the heading “social justice”, and therefore double jeopardy would not be an issue.
But “social justice” itself has little to do with either justice or actual crimes. Mostly it is a “feel-good” doctrine, inventing a whole new category of victimhood, most of which, astonishingly, was already a subject of crime under existing statutes.
If someone who hates me, kills me then I'm "deader".
Right?
/s
Actually, it helps with their statistics about this group or that group being "haters" so they can ban the symbols of the group and eventually, the group.
Meanwhile the "Death to America", "Destroy the Great Satan" and "Israel must be wiped off the Map!" crown are now "Our Trustworthy Allies in the Glorious Quest for Peace in the Middle East" (and subquent Nobel Prizes).