What an absolutely imbecilic waste of time and effort.
How many bonafide “lynching’s” are there in this country in a year??? Are there not laws that already address the act of murder in the 1st degree and then tack on the aggravated stipulation of an automatic hate crime.
Nothing more than virtue posturing to gain press coverage.
Last official lynching in the United States was over half a century ago
Answered my own question.....The last verifiable lynching in the US was perpetrated in 1981. The man responsible was put to death (electrocuted) in 1997. And he wasn’t technically “lynched” as he was beaten and killed THEN hung from a tree.
So it’s been 38 years since the last “lynching” in this country yet we need a specific law enacted 38 years later to criminalize something that has rarely happened in the last hundred years and only once in the last 50.
BRILLIANT!