Posted on 01/05/2017 1:06:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Ed Morrissey covered the disturbing video showing four people torturing a mentally-challenged man earlier today. He wrote at the time “If we are to have ‘hate crimes,’ then this clearly falls within that classification.” Now the four individuals who were arrested have been charged with hate crimes and other charges. From NBC5 Chicago:
Jordan Hill, 18, of Carpentersville; Tesfaye Cooper, 18, of Chicago; Brittany Covington, 18, of Chicago; and Tanishia Covington, 24, of Chicago, were each charged with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Hill, Cooper and Brittany Covington also face charges of residential burglary. Hill was also charged with robbery.
Police Cmdr. Kevin Duffin had earlier said he wasn’t sure if the kidnapping and torture represented a hate crime. From the Associated Press:
Asked Wednesday about the racial comments on the video, Duffin said the four people in custody were “young adults, and they make stupid decisions.”
When considering a potential hate crime charge, investigators will have to determine whether the racial remarks were “sincere or just stupid ranting and raving,” Duffin said.
A city of Chicago web page devoted to hate crime victim assistance says a hate crime is an act of bigotry based on a number of factors including “physical or mental disability.” So even if police believe the motive here was about the victim’s disability, rather than his race, it would seem they still have cause to judge this a hate crime.
The victim is said to be traumatized by his ordeal. His parents had dropped him off at a McDonalds on Saturday where the 18-year-old was to meet a friend. He was reported missing by his parents on Monday and found wandering the streets on Tuesday. He eventually led police back to the scene of the crime. NBC5 reports the kidnappers were texting the man’s family during the incident:
Police said the suspects had been sending the victim’s parents text messages while holding him hostage.
“This is going to affect him for probably the rest of his life,” the teen’s grandmother said.
There’s no indication what was in those text messages. Were they hoping to ransom the victim or simply trying to terrorize his family?
Not going to happen. Look for an outraged community to to demand major charges.
Kidnapping is i think.
2’nd from the right...uppercut to the nose!
But this wasn’t across state lines. Hence the The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, 18 U.S.C. § 249. IIRC, this was passed, in part, because of the state lines thing.
I can’t tell you how much I hope I’m wrong, but I’m still betting they’re allowed to plead down.
Does president loony tunes know this?
Why do you think that?
There should be no official category of a “hate crime.” All such a designation does is introduce politics into the process of charging, trying, and punishing, as is clearly happening here. And it’s just another way for the federal government to assert control over situations that should be handled by the individual states.
Conservatives should be unanimous in wanting to get rid of the designation altogether, rather than attempting to get it to also apply to white people at times.
A person should be charged and convicted for what he did, not for what he was thinking when he did it, period. For one thing, a minor infraction, like throwing the bird at someone, could easily be escalated into a hate crime under certain circumstances. Just dump the idea.
Wonder what President-elect Trump thinks of the concept? Has anyone asked him, or hasn’t that occurred to the MSM yet?
Does it really matter what might happen locally? The new DoJ can still pick this up as a Federal civil rights violation and pursue it next month. Bad timing on part of the perps.
Collective IQ of about 300.
According to families all wanted to be brain surgeons and nuclear physicists.
Evil torture is a “stupid decision”?
No, it’s a hideous hate crime of the largest magnitude short of killing.
They should never walk free. Ever.
They were dumb enough to film it and show no remorse. Let them rot in prison. I wonder how their fellow inmates treat people who torture people who are mentally challenged?
Wow. Despite video evidence, CPD confirming it, etc. they are claiming it is fake or some weird conspiracy to make blacks look bad.
FOR 2 DAYS! FOR 2 DAYS!! Why can’t anyone in the media report that? He was held hostage, beaten, tortured FOR 2 DAYS! They want the public to think this was a kids prank done for an hour, no, he was tortured, beaten for 2 days straight!
I heard the story on news radio today and no mention of the Trump angle was made.
“...What a brood of Orcs if I ever saw some!...”
Many folks in these parts would call it: “A target-rich environment”.
The dead eyes of pyschopaths.
Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome’s kidnapping, torture, rape and murders were not hate crimes, IIRC.
Disgusting - look it up.
Because it does NOT fit white on black, right wing on Muslim, Trump voter on Hillary crime.
CNN has trouble with the truth, NOT a Hate Crime, NOT EVIL
What is your source for TWO DAYS? CNN and other fake news sources are possibly not reporting this fact so that Hussein and others can hide the truth. It is what they do
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