[AnotherUnixGeek]

Immediately labeled a hate crime.

The article says that "police are investigating whether it's a hate crime". It's a reasonable thing to investigate, unless there's a general trend in Elk Grove in which elderly men both with and without turbans are getting shot while taking a stroll.

[rogue yam]

This article is unadulterated leftist horse snot and there is nothing reasonable about that.

[GraceG]

Of course the Media Mafia will spin this as a “Hate Crime against the ROPers”.

And they won;t even have the guts to explain what a Sikh is or even mention any of their history and the general public will be mislead to believe that Sikhs are some sorta sect of the ROPers.

Count on this happening.

[stop_fascism]

Certainly it is possible. A Sikh was murdered in the Sacramento area shortly after 9/11, in what was definitely a hate crime.

However, the article makes it seem like a certainty. They were shot in an area where it could have been a gang initiation shooting. Or it could have been mistaken identity. Two months later, another Sikh, one who was involved in drug dealing, was murdered in the Elk Grove area.

If it were a hate crime, it is a little strange that it was an isolated incident. I would think it would be part of a spree.