Posted on 02/21/2015 5:16:46 AM PST by fivecatsandadog
He is a Muslim. He asked his victims if they were Muslim. Then he stabbed them when they say they weren’t. If this isn’t a hate crime, what is? The fact that Terrence Lavaron Thomas has not been charged with a hate crime shows yet again that hate crime laws are political tools in the hands of the powerful, used to menace the powerless groups they dislike. In the Detroit area, the Muslim community is powerful — so this must not be a hate crime. “Detroit Muslim accused of stabbing victims over religion not charged with hate crime,” by Gus Burns, mlive.com, February 19, 2015 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
DETROIT, MI — Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper didn’t charge a Detroit man with a hate crime after it’s suspected he stabbed two people at a Southfield bus stop, possibly motivated by religious hate.
Nick Loussia, Deputy Chief of Police for the Southfield Police Department, said the suspect, 39-year-old Terrence Lavaron Thomas, “is Muslim, and asked the victims what religion they were” before allegedly attacking them.
He’s charged with two counts of assault with intent to murder, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and possession of marijuana.
Oakland County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton said the evidence doesn’t support a 2-year felony charge of ethnic intimidation, although investigators are still interviewing witnesses.
Walton said an argument started over “bad breath and bad teeth” before it “deescalated to a physical altercation.”
“At this point … I’m not hearing anything that is going to monumentally change any of the charges,” Walton said.
The FBI is looking at the case also to see if any federal hate crimes were committed.
“We’re taking all of the logical investigative steps with regards to the sorts of violations we investigate,” David Porter, spokesman for the Detroit FBI field office, said Thursday. “There is no update to provide[.]
“I’m not saying anything beyond we are investigating the matter.”
Thomas’s bail was set at $1 million cash or surety bond.
According to police, Thomas attacked the victims, a 52-year-old man and 51-year-old man from Detroit, after he “made several comments about his religion and asked the victims about their religious beliefs just before the assault occurred.”
When police arrived to the scene Saturday night, they found that the 52-year-old victim had been stabbed in the head, neck and back. The 51-year-old victim had been stabbed in the hand….
So now stabbing someone is a deescalation of an argument.
YUP - its coming, sooner than we think.
Depends.
Black Wayne county (Detroit) prosecutor, Kym Worthy charged the Steve Utash attackers with hate crimes.
The whole concept of a hate crime is stupid, crime is crime and all this hate crime law does is make certain people more protected than others.
Homosexuals, blacks, muslims, illegals, Hispanics etc are all protected while white Christians are targeted and not a frigging peep from this racist DOJ. Yea I’m sure Holder will come riding in and look into civil rights being denied, oh wait .
hate crimes just make more others protected like homosexuals blacks, illegals Hispanics etc.
(The notion of "hate crime" flies in the face of Anglo-American Juris Prudence and is wholly unconstitutional.)
Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands
Give it a few months and he will be a guest at the white House.
Thanks for the ping. Hey, lets ban knives. /sarc
/sharia
Fislam
“Who will protect us from our protectors?” R.I.P. Mark Scott
The existence of the category of hate in our jurisprudence is a symptom of the unraveling of the Republic and liberty.
The top guy in the country is the head of the Muslim Brotherhood In America.
Having said that. I can't remember a SINGLE time "hate crime" charges have EVER been filed on a black or muslim criminal. Anyone? Please show me an example.
We might as well rename it to "persecuting whitey with additional charges crime". If it can't or won't be applied equally it is an unjust law and should be abolished. If I am ever a juror in a "hate crime" trial, I will refuse to prosecute based on the above.
Obama is Sunni. Jarrett is Moslem, probably Shia. I wonder what Holder’s version is. The Brotherhood does seem to run the government. There are many members in key positions. President Mrs. Bill would leave all that in place. She has her own direct connection to the Brotherhood, her wife.
The concept of Hate Crime is introduced into society as a way of having Institutionalized Protected Groups.
Muslims are one of the government-established Institutionalized Protected Groups.
By definition a Protected Group can only be a victim of a hate crime, never the perpetrator of one.
That’s what the term Hate Crime means.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a harfwit.
Totally agree. And no, I can’t remember ever hearing of a black or muslim being charged with “hate crime”. It’s reserved only for whitey, doncha know.
As I recall, “hate crime” was initially used in crimes against gays, bisexuals (harf-and-harfs) or trans”gendered”s. It’s now a widely used, handy term used by the harfwits to embellish crimes, perpetrated only by whitey, committed against the protected “flavor” of the day.
Actually the FBI looked at the case to develop a reason NOT to call this a federal hate crime. Pukes - just a bunch of pukes - all of them.
What do the little stars mean?
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