Because pornographers don’t spy on heterosexuals, they film them with their consent after having signed contracts.
That said, this shouldn’t be a “hate crime” at all.
Filming someone without their consent in a setting where they have an expectation of privacy should be (is in most places?) illegal.
The idea that the guy might not have liked gays is the crime rather than the act of invading someone’s privacy is absolute lunacy.
I think all “hate crimes” are crap - it is punishing thoughts not acts. But this punk should be punished for invading someone’s privacy - I don’t care whether he was watching a gay roommate or a herterosexual one.
At most this would be wiretapping but not a hate crime.
I read an article that said the Indian man recorded this because his roommate was bringing men into the room and not letting him in at the same time. The Indian man was worried his stuff would/was getting stolen so he turned on the webcam. He had a valid worry there. I have lived in the dorm and know how roomies can be. Is why I always paid extra to have own room!
Well the Indian man turned on webcam to “maybe” catch a thief and caught this. He should have been adult about it and erased it not Beavis and Butthead about it and showed it to his friends.
It wasn’t a “hate crime” it was a bias crime, meaning he acted out of some bias in invading the other guy’s privacy. That’s true, he did seem interested, whatever you want to call it, in the fact the guy was in his room with another guy.
The judge, however, said the legislature meant for bias crimes to apply to assault type crimes, and so he didn’t order imprisonment there. The prison time is for lying to police, witness tampering, etc.
In the end the judge was tough but fair in that he did not sentence based on the subsequent suicide, which this defendant didn’t intend and wasn’t charged with.