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?
10th year anniversary.
Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23, were from Knoxville, Tennessee. They were kidnapped the evening of January 6, 2007 when Christian’s vehicle was carjacked, and taken to a rental house, where both of them were raped, tortured, and murdered. Five people were arrested and charged in the case. The grand jury indicted four of the suspects on counts of capital murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape, and theft, while a fifth was indicted on federal charges of carjacking
Just some homey’s with “bad home training”, as the idiot said.
They should each be hanging from trees.
Ferals gone wild! These four feral loser racists should be thrown into a wood chipper...after a fair trial, of course.
The degenerates have mookie’s sneer.
Hate crimes - part and parcel of Obama’s legacy of stirring up riots, looting, fires, assaults and probably murders.
Agreed. Violent crimes are hateful acts. In the world of Obama, violent crimes like “polar bear hunting” have not been punished. BLM members who marched and screamed “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon” were rewarded by visits to the Obama White House. Hillary Clinton’s campaign strategy included paying “anarchists” to shut down, disrupt, block roads,and highways, perpetrate violence against Trump supporters, destroy vehicles, etc. Incredibly, the Propaganda media blamed Trump supporters and Trump himself for the violence.
The 4 genuine racists in Chicago who tortured the special needs man obviously believed their behavior would be OK with the Democrats.
Yes, they’ve all but blamed Trump for the kidnapping and torturing. The real fault lies in the system that says it’s OK to do that, with Obama right in the center. Starting with the Trayvon Martin case, he’s done nothing but blame the victim and praise the criminal based on nothing but skin color.
4 x 9mm = $1.20 = better world
Some days just a little summary Capital Punishment would go a VERY, VERY long way.
Nuke ‘em.
You’re precisely correct, imho.
Federal kidnapping, unlawful restraint charges on all of them.
About 20-25 years each in a federal penitentiary would be proper.
Riots by BLM in 4,,,,,3,,,,,,,2,,,,,,1,
Odumbo’s sons! He should be so proud of these ferel rat bastards, the sons he never had but was hoping for! Waiting for odumo to publicly condemn this heinous crime.....crickets chirping
thanks for the pics. Animals
The victims family dropped him off at a McDonalds on Saturday to hang out with a friend whereas he disappeared afterwards and didn’t show up until Monday where the cops found him on the street after he had been beaten and tortured.
Source: (one of the rare media sites that actually reports this fact although they do not report when he was picked up by the police.).............
Covington, Covington, Hill and Cooper. Almost sounds like some prestigious law firm.
Nailed it.
Blacks over 12 and under age 25 all seem to hate whites. Is it something in the schools?
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