Posted on 03/21/2021 4:38:59 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Democrats said Sunday that the shootings last week at spas in Atlanta, which left eight people dead, six of whom were Asian American, were hate crimes that demanded federal charges.
"We all know hate when we see it," Sen. Raphael Warnock said.
The shootings stirred up increased fear and anger in Asian American communities at a time when anti-Asian American hate incidents have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats, local officials and community advocates have pushed law enforcement agencies to characterize the killings as a hate crime.
Speaking in Atlanta last week, President Biden said many Asian Americans have "been attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed" in recent months, adding, "Silence is complicity."
Robert Aaron Long, 21, a white man, was charged with eight counts of murder and homicide and one count of aggravated assault. Authorities have alleged that he said the attacks were not racially motivated, because, he is alleged to have told investigators, he has a "sex addiction" and he saw the spas as "a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate."
Investigators had yet to find concrete evidence that would be enough to build a federal hate crime case against Long.
Warnock said the incident is cause to renew efforts to pass gun reforms nationwide.
"This shooter was able to kill all of these folks the same day he purchased a firearm," he said. "But right now, what is our Legislature doing? They're busy under the Gold Dome here in Georgia trying to prevent people from being able to vote the same day they register."
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They don’t hate you, you bible clutching gun toting irredeemable deplorable.
Never mind that deplorable isn’t a noun.
Not addressing this incident....
Democrats see hate where they want to.
“Investigators had yet to find concrete evidence that would be enough to build a federal hate crime case against Long, several law enforcement officials said.”
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This seems to be an important point. Was his aim to kill Asians, or to kill massage parlor workers, and the ones he killed just happened to be Asians? I don’t point that out in his defense, but out of concern that that motives for a crime are the real motives, and this horrible crime doesn’t turn out to be another crisis to be exploited and turned into yet another circus.
Democrats steamrolling this incident into a “thing” against Trump and by extension trump voters aka white people. Even when most attacks have been perpetrated by blacks against Asians. Suspension of disbelief. Ya gotta give them credit.
Any prominent Republicans pushing back publicly to stop this narrative from taking hold?? No?? I’ll be darned.
Stop the hate! Kill Whitey!
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ZK lee.
The same folks who espouse ‘we know terrorism when we see it’.....go figure. The same folks who would have applauded and egged-on Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. Bet.
I feel sorry for the other victims who were not Asian and are now being totally ignored. Doesn’t fit the narrative.
Yeppers.
When they look in the mirror.
I suspect since the perp was visiting Asian sex workers that he was NOT prejudiced against Asians ...to the contrary he was attracted to Asian sex workers. It sounds like he was disgusted with his own lack of sexual control and rather than blame himself - he blamed the sex workers. Sounds like he was a democrat... they never blame themselves.
Every time one of the wacko’s shoots someone the very first thing the damned Marxist’s say and want is more and more and more and more gun control. There are so many damned gun laws in this country now that the Library of Congress needs an additional wing to house all the damned law books from the states where gun law after gun law FAILED to stop the murdering. Let’s see now, what cities, RUN BY MARXIST DIMOCRATS, have the highest murder rates and have had murder crimes INCREASE since they DEFUNDED THE POLICE: Now let’s see here now, Chicago, Illinois: YUP; New York City, NY: Yup; Philly, PA: Yup; LA, Kaliforniastanmeddico: Yup. Yup, yup, yup, DIMOCRATIC run cities, with damned near everyone of the city department heads are Marxist Dimocrat Commies, RUN these hell holes of rape and murder, YET THINK that defunding the damned Police Department and sending in counselors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with stop the rape, robbery and murders!!! NOPE ain’t gonna happen, nope, ain’t. Stinking Marxist’s simply want all the guns so that they can start their One World Government and we cannot fight them. THAT is what it is all about. Wouldn’t surprise me one danged bit that the Marxist’s paid these people to do this crap, telling them they won’t be caught because the DEfunded Police cannot catch them. Stupid idiots.
“anti-Asian American hate incidents have spiked”
Yes, black thugs are attacking Asians in unprecedented numbers.
>> adding, “Silence is complicity.”
Joseph Stolen is an idiot.
Don’t you usually hate the person you murder?
I witnessed hate not being able to get up the steps of AF1 about 3 times.
democrats hate us.
“...were hate crimes that demanded federal charges.”
Well, yes, murder, by definition, is an act of hate, the ultimate act of hate, deserving of the death penalty, and there are no further charges that can elevate it to a worse act. Does the addition of federal charges mean that there is a penalty that is more severe than the death penalty?
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