Man Charged With Hate Crime In Mall Murder

Fox News ^ | 07/27/2005 | Fox News

[WaveMan]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The fatal stabbing of a 56-year-old woman at a mall will be prosecuted as a hate crime because the suspect said he wanted to kill a white person, authorities said Tuesday. Phillip Grant (search), 43, who is black, was indicted Tuesday on charges of murder, murder as a hate crime, and possession of a weapon. The June 29 slaying of Concetta Russo-Carriero (search) took place in the parking garage of the Galleria Mall in White Plains. If convicted of murder as a hate crime, the minimum sentence would be 20 years to life instead of 15 years to life, prosecutors said. A call to Grant's lawyer was not immediately returned. In a 45-minute tape played at a court hearing earlier this month, Grant told police that he was fighting a race war and killed the woman because she was white. "All I knew was she had blond hair and blue eyes and she had to die," he said.

[Modernman]

That's new and different.

Not really. Hate crime laws are pretty evenly applied to blacks and whites.

[Unicorn]

Public hanging would be better.

[hershey]

I don't believe in hate crimes. You're just as dead no matter why your attacker hated you and took your life. But since the Liberals have foisted this on us, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[Main Street]

"That's new and different."

It sure is. But will it be the norm? We will have to wait and see. The liberal double standard of Political Correctness is just so engrained into the system....

From '3 men stabbed in attack in Lovejoy'

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050724/1004075.asp

"The police, Diina said, acted quickly Friday and last Saturday when a black man was beaten by five white men in the Seneca-Babcock area. Police arrested the five white men who were accused of striking Brian Hunt with a baseball bat and screaming racial epithets at him."

And charged them with hate crimes.

But on the stabbing of three whites by five blacks who were screaming racial epithets, we get the following.....

"Sack, the investigating lieutenant, downplayed the racial elements of the Lovejoy attack."

"If people are angry at one another, they try to wound each other's feelings, and they call each other names. It doesn't mean, "I'm a racist,' " she said of the racial slurs."

[longtermmemmory]

"some animals are more equal than others"

[Jaded]

The whole idea of a "hate crime" absolutely slays me. Does that mean that if I, a white female with a hispanic last name, bludgeon you, a white male, to death it's a 'love crime'? Hmmm? Murder in and of itself is a hate crime.

[ConservativeMan55]

You don't happen to be a single white female do you? LOL just kidding.

[MissEdie]

Will someone please tell me which offenses fall under the category of "love crimes"?

[MissEdie]

Will someone please tell me which offenses fall under the category of "love crimes"?

[skeeter]

Weird stuff. Not sure if I support this.

I only support it so far that the law, if applied impartially, becomes politically meaningless.

[Flint]

" 20 years to life instead of 15 years to life"

What does that mean? He'll be back on the street in 5 months instead of 4 months?

[cubreporter]

If that isn't a hate crime I don't know what is.

[Tunehead54]

Will someone please tell me which offenses fall under the category of "love crimes"?

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Having sex with someone and not telling them you have an STD. Sorry but you asked. :-)

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Married and faithful for 25 years come 12/20/05. So its not a personal experience thing but I read a lot.

[justt bloomin]

I can't wait for the ACLU to jump in and claim that charging a minority with a hate crime is a hate crime.