I sort of agree.
1. Other than (perhaps) sexual gratification, the ONLY motivation for this crime is HATE.
2. Probably, absent some connection not stated, nothing personal. Any victims would do.
3. Racial hatred may or may not have been involved.
4. Adding “hate crime” to the list of horrible crimes seems petty, even silly.
5. They should be punished to the fullest extent ot the law, for the crimes actually committed.
DG
And I do think I can understand why the parents of the victims, had they been given any say in the matter, might have preferred that some ridiculously bogus 'hate crime' statute not be applied here, lest this trial inevitably be turned into a super-politicized show trial where their children's murders would invariably become secondary considerations in all the trumped-up hoopla.
I don't think that's stupid at all as many others here seem to believe.
Applying that charge would only give the defense attorneys the opening to break out the violins and present evidence of every daggum racial indignity their clients had ever suffered in their lives which might have led them to 'hate' white people and the trial would then become a full-blown media spectacle, not just about achieving justice for the 2 innocent victims & the grotesquely savage brutality committed against them, but just as much a campaign for justice for the perps of these crimes & whatever racism they had endured in their sorry godforsaken lives too.
Why should the prosecution & parents hand over a gift-wrapped ready-made excuse to these animals' defense attorneys to help mitigate their clients' evil conduct & minimize their guilt? Why should they help these bloodthirsty pigs paint themselves as victims in this trial? Why should they help the perps to deflect attention from & diminish in any way at all the sheer savage inhumanity of the crimes they committed by giving credence to some cockamamie concocted abuse excuse which helps them rationally justify even in the smallest way to the jury what they did?
I'm quite sure these moms & dads are seeking justice for their kids, not validtion for Al Sharpton and the other architects of this whole stupid race-baiting 'hate crime' racket.
Now if, in a desperate effort to mitigate their clients' guilt, these perps' attorneys are stupid enough to step into the trap, allow their clients to admit under oath that their motivation was indeed hatred towards white people & in the process provide irrefutable concrete proof to the jury of a 'hate crime, I don't see why a hate crime statute violation couldn't be slapped onto their charge sheet by the judge himself after their confessions in his courtroom. I'm sure the parents & prosecutors wouldn't be too choked up about that.
But all the prosecutors have to do is show the jury the pictures of those two mutilated bodies to convince those 12 citizens of the pressing civic & moral imperative to permanently rid their community of these predators who by their actions have forfeited the right to walk freely amongst even the lowest members of the human race.
And if these parents are to achieve a genuinely satisfying, lasting justice for their kids for the inhumane atrocities which were committed against them, that's absolutely the only 'race issue' which should be trumped up for the jury's consideration by the prosecution at all during this trial, IMHO.