Hate crime charges filed after ‘sickening’ video shows attack on disabled man in Chicago

The Washington Post's Morning Mix ^ | January 5, 2017 | Mark Berman and Derek Hawkins

[Mr. K]

Featuring the hit single “starting community college next semester”

[2ndDivisionVet]

It was only a matter of time.

[SMARTY]

Heartbreaking... and all the worse because he was a 'challenged' kid.... what if it was your son?

[Chuckster]

Is BLM protesting yet?

[YogicCowboy]

It takes 4:1 odds and blow by blow video of the crime to breech the hate crime threshold...

... and a special-needs victim.

[steel_resolve]

If it was my son I would take the law into my own hands... as it stands I’m sitting here quietly simmering with rage...

[YogicCowboy]

I agree. So-called hate crimes are a communist weapon: thought police using subjectivity and selectivity to level the so-called playing field by punishing political enemies more than others.

But where is the political will to repeal them?

[TYVets]

Will 0bama have time to pardon the “hate crime”?

[2ndDivisionVet]

I don’t put anything past him.

[ripley]

“...Chicago DA did his damnedest NOT to charge them with a hate crime...”

Comrade, they were only practicing for the time when they will oversee the handling of anti-revolutionaries after the revolution.

See? Ya know?

/s/

IMHO

[Delta 21]

You are right.

4 on one, black on white special needs victim with video proof.

Its amazing how fast the cops cracked the case!

[Clintonfatigued]

They’re really going to be charged with a hate crime. I hope they get locked up for a long, long time. Those four sub-humans have nothing positive to offer anybody. Even the so-called Community Activists are denouncing the crime.

[Clintonfatigued]

This crime was so sickening, even Black Lives Matter has condemned it and will give no support to the attackers. They are on their own and hopefully, no one will help them when they get to prison.

[NFHale]

The only reason BLM is “condemning it” is because they got caught.

The perps need to be removed from this life.

If that was my son...those animals would be my Life’s Mission until the end of me.

Enough said. I’m furious.

[Clintonfatigued]

In prison, attacking disabled people is considered cowardly. I imagine that they’ll feel the wrath of other inmates.

[Impy]

They kidnapped a poor retarded (White) kid/young man and beat and tried to SCALP him while saying "F Trump".

My outrage meter is broken on this one, it's broken.

I have a proposal to reform the death penalty, rather than actually kill prisoners, just throw them in a pit with no food and let things take their course.

[oldbrowser]

The word harbinger comes to mind.

[I_be_tc]

If it was my son, I would do everything I could to assure no charges were filed. I could not get to them if they were in prison.

[NFHale]

RE “In prison, attacking disabled people is considered cowardly”

I doubt it, friend.

They’ll be with other animals, IF they even get in there. And there’s others of their kind who will applaud them.

Nope. Street justice is all they deserve.

[Tammy8]

In my opinion there should not be “hate crime” laws and instead whatever the charges are, that is what they should be. I do think as long as there are “hate crime” laws they should apply to every group the same. No group should get special treatment either way.