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Hate-crime charges filed in anti-Semitic graffiti case in Van Nuys
LA Times ^ | 7/29/14 | Richard Winton

Posted on 07/29/2014 6:46:40 PM PDT by Nachum

A man accused of scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti outside a Jewish-owned business in Van Nuys has been charged with multiple hate crimes by Los Angeles city prosecutors.

Amos Hason 49, allegedly painted swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti on a fence and trash bin behind the plumbing business. Surveillance video from the site shows a man applying graffiti on two occasions.

Among the scrawlings were the words: “Adolf was right. Kill Jews!” with a swastika at the end.

“This case is a stark reminder that there is still hate in our society and we must strike back against it every time it emerges,” City Atty. Mike Feuer said in announcing the charges.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitic; graffiti; hatecrime
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To: SJackson
There are many real crimes this idiot could be charged with and if convicted, receive the maximum sentence for each of them and he would and should spend some serious time in jail. The whole concept of "hate crimes" reeks of "thought crimes" and doesn't belong in our Republic, not to mention that it is applied almost exclusively to white on black & perverts crimes.

It's a "get whitey" & "homophobes" concept, for the most part and should be abolished.

21 posted on 07/30/2014 8:02:40 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. Eccl 10,v 19)
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To: Graybeard58
I don't disagree with what it reeks of. And you're right about it's use. And from most news articles I read, the problem is not only racial selectivity, but the fact that they sometimes seem to be used in inappropriate circumstances to enhance charges. Perhaps some of FR's lawyers will help us. For example, a couple of inebriates in a bar come to blows, one of them uses a racial epithet, I'm not thinking about cracker here.. The altercation may not have been about race, but he said the wrong word, enhancing the charge. Inappropriate. That's not the case here. This was clear intimidation. As a Jew I would take Kill Jews as a threat, reinforced by the Nazi references. As a layman, I'd take it as a threat of assault, which I believe qualifies in many states as assault. I think that's the approach the legal system should take though I acknowledge I don't know the charges that could be brought. But it's not simply graffiti. And if hate crime charges are how California handles it, I'm OK with that. I hope they'd handle my cracker example the same way, though I doubt it. As an aside I do think "hate" is a legitimate sentencing issue, but that's less a function of the crime than the risk of recidivism.
22 posted on 07/30/2014 4:02:15 PM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: Graybeard58

Are you implying that punishments should be settled upon by courts and juries based upon the circumstances of the individual case?

What kind of radical are you?

This is America, 2014. Our charges and sentences are dictated by politicians trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Now, let’s go find a dead kid to name another law after!

/sarc


23 posted on 07/30/2014 10:12:30 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: NathanR
Sounds like the upcoming numbers for Chicago. I just read Chicago got 1000 illegal alien kids, all with Rahm Emanuel’s blessing. How do you spell hell hole.
24 posted on 07/31/2014 12:32:40 AM PDT by itssme
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