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Democratic Strategist Not Sure Chicago Torture Video of Disabled White Man Constitutes a Hate Crime
MediaIte ^ | 01/05/2017 | Justin Baragona

Posted on 01/05/2017 7:12:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Tonight, CNN’s Don Lemon gathered a panel to discuss the story of a disturbing Facebook Live video out of Chicago in which a group of young black adults broadcast their torture of a young white mentally disabled man. While holding their victim hostage, they cut his scalp, burned him with cigarettes and kicked him, all while shouting “f*ck Donald Trump! F*ck white people!”

At the beginning of the conversation, Lemon turned to CNN political commentator and Democratic strategist Symone Sanders. Stating that he can’t say it’s a hate crime because police are still investigating, he asked the former Bernie Sanders campaign spox her thoughts.

After calling it “sickening,” Sanders gave the following observation: “But I’m gonna say something that’s probably not very popular — we cannot callously go about classifying things as a hate crime.”

After wondering if it were hate for Trump or white people, she expanded on he point. “If we start going around and anytime someone says or does something egregious or bad and sickening in sense,” she noted. “In connection with the president-elect Donald Trump or even President Obama for that matter because of their political leanings, that’s slippery territory. That is not a hate crime.”

Fellow panelist Alice Stewart was next to weigh in and while agreeing with Sanders the crime was “sickening,” she also said that she “hoped it was classified” as a hate crime.

Later on in the discussion, Sanders would argue that much of the rhetoric of the presidential election may have had an impact on the attackers and other troubled young people, which would draw some condemnation from Lemon himself who explained that they probably don’t even watch the news.

If Sanders seems familiar, it’s probably because you remember her mockingly exclaiming “Oh my goodness, poor white people” during an on-air conversation about a Trump supporter beaten by a mob. She’s also said the Democratic Party doesn’t “need white people leading” it right now and the election of Trump put “white supremacy into the White House.”

Watch the exchange above, via CNN.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hatecrime; racism; torture
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To: SeekAndFind

Symone Sanders: “Trump Supporter Beaten In Chicago Got What White People Deserve For Centuries Of Black Slavery”

Could there be a more perfect example of, “STUCK ON STUPID”.


21 posted on 01/05/2017 7:30:49 AM PST by JayAr36 (Lets just reneame the Democrats to DRATS. I think the description is accurate.)
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc
BLM twitter that they will be charged with simple battery.

Criminal lives matter!
If they are the correct color.

22 posted on 01/05/2017 7:31:24 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: tired&retired

Source of quote?


23 posted on 01/05/2017 7:32:14 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: tired&retired

Black people themselves are destroying decades of progress in race relations.


24 posted on 01/05/2017 7:33:13 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: JayAr36

Haven’t we learned by now that a white person cannot be a victim of a hate crime. White lives don’t matter.....


25 posted on 01/05/2017 7:35:11 AM PST by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: SeekAndFind

What should really happen is the new Trump Administration State Department should issue a White American Advisory cautioning all white people to leave the locales of Chicago because extremist white-hate, bias and bigotry towards white people by its denizens prevails on an unprecedented scale.


26 posted on 01/05/2017 7:36:25 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

Being bound and gaged is kidnapping.


27 posted on 01/05/2017 7:37:10 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: SeekAndFind

That is why Trump won. The political elites, including many Republicans, can’t admit even the most obvious truths. The emporer has no clothes and all but the blind can see it.


28 posted on 01/05/2017 7:38:11 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: tired&retired

Is that a true quote?


29 posted on 01/05/2017 7:38:11 AM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s test this theory: suppose it was a black Trump supporter and white Hillary nutcases?


30 posted on 01/05/2017 7:39:50 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Gaffer

See how they do without the property tax payers for a year.


31 posted on 01/05/2017 7:41:54 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: SeekAndFind

The perps are on video saying “F-— white people”.

If THIS was not a hate crime, then NOTHING can ever hereafter be labeled a hate crime.


32 posted on 01/05/2017 7:41:55 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: goodnesswins

Here is the source:

http://spinzon.com/symone-sanders-trump-supporter-beaten-chicago-got-white-people-deserve-centuries-black-slavery/

I am in no way affiliated with the site. I merely googled her name to see if I recognized her and the quote came up with the picture.

Here it is in the context of the website:
“I just have to emphasize one thing – my position on the incident does not derive from the fact that I’m a black person, on the contrary; but we have to face the truth and the only truth here is that white people have systematically oppressed and enslaved black people for more than 400 years. And I don’t know what has to be done to heal those wounds, but the way I see it – one traffic light beating is a good start, because it pays back hundreds of thousands of lynches, crucifies, hangings, mutilations and other gruesome ways in which white people toyed with black slaves in the past. We as a race deserve payback for centuries of black slavery and if stopping white people in their cars and pulling them out and beating them up in the middle of the street is the way to accomplish that, it’s better than nothing,” Sanders opined.


33 posted on 01/05/2017 7:42:48 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Mr. K
Some white people should get together and film a FAKE video of 4 white people doing this to a black person...

Not advised. Cities would burn, and whites would be murdered, and the perps of the fake video would have some responsibility for it.

34 posted on 01/05/2017 7:43:34 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: GnuThere

Any self-respecting American Business that is headquartered in Chicago should highly consider moving and keeping their customers. As far as I’m concerned, I want nothing to do with anything connected to Chicago, period.


35 posted on 01/05/2017 7:44:08 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: lurk

I agree.


36 posted on 01/05/2017 7:45:17 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Mr. K

“Some white people should get together and film a FAKE video of 4 white people doing this to a black person...

let the outrage begin...

then go on TV and announce that they did it to show the difference in response to the EXACT SAME CRIME”

Like it....


37 posted on 01/05/2017 7:45:34 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: SeekAndFind

38 posted on 01/05/2017 7:46:25 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Zero Hedge purports to have evidence that they did the same thing PREVIOUS to this video.


39 posted on 01/05/2017 7:50:55 AM PST by tbw2
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To: tired&retired

When was this said?


40 posted on 01/05/2017 7:52:10 AM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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