Posted on 06/16/2021 7:10:49 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
It’s the first Hawaii hate crime case brought by the feds in 20 years, but U.S. Attorney Kenji Price is hoping to send a strong message about victimizing others because of their race or color. In 2013, Chris Kunzelman and his wife bought a house in Maui’s remote Kahakuloa village despite being warned that neighborhood residents “do not like white people.”
Every time a non-Native Hawaiian had tried to view the house, Hawaiian residents from the deeply rooted village of approximately 150 people harassed and threatened them, scaring other potential buyers of the foreclosed property away, according to court documents.
But for Kunzelman, who wanted to help his sick wife realize her dream to live in Hawaii, the opportunity to own a four-bedroom fixer-upper on the bay for $171,000 couldn’t be beat. The couple bought it sight unseen.
Kunzelman and his wife never spent a night in their Maui home.
Kunzelman was brutally assaulted in a “racially motivated” attack as he attempted to move belongings into the house on Feb. 13, 2014, according to an indictment by a federal grand jury in Honolulu that was announced last week.
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For good measure the Maui judge ordered the victim not to return to his home that he owns.
Black privilege.
This would have been national news and prosecution would have commenced in a week if this was a black couple.
“In 2013, Chris Kunzelman and his wife bought a house in Maui’s remote Kahakuloa village despite being warned that neighborhood residents “do not like white people.”
“What was wrong with what we did?” the defendants were quoted as saying. “If the left has taught us one thing, it’s that we should be able to beat the s**t out of white people with impunity!”
In a lot of schools in Hawaii, Haole children are frequently the subject of considerable anti-white bullying.
Months later, Kaonohi was arrested for attacking a white man at the Steel Horse Saloon in Wailuku, according to court documents.
Surveillance footage of the July 2014 bar assault shows the defendant approaching the victim at the bar, tapping him on the shoulder and then, when the victim turns his head, knocking him to the floor with a punch to the face. Court documents allege that Kaonohi then punched the victim repeatedly, knocking him unconscious and causing permanent brain damage.
Witness accounts and surveillance footage indicate that Kaonohi and the victim had no interactions at the bar preceding the attack.
In July 2018, Kaonohi pleaded no contest to felony assault in connection to the Steel Horse Saloon attack. He was sentenced to one year in prison, but his sentence was modified to permit him to serve time only on weekends.
You may find it interesting anyway.
That's the way it's always been with them.
Not surprising, lots of Racism in da islands brah.
Go to Hilo at night lots of fun.
I always heard native Hawaiians are very hateful towards whites.
That's why I have a gun in my pocket and one on the seat of my truck everywhere I go.
Everywhere!
I wouldn’t go out alone on the islands. That’s all I will say.
Native Hawaiians don’t care for blacks either, maybe more so.
A friend in Maui, moved there 10 yrs ago, is coming back. Says a lot about paradise.
Well, at least they don’t throw you in a cook pot anymore.
Yep.
Hell, I even carry when I'm working outside in my own yard {it ain't that heavy}.
IIRC, only about 1% of Hawaiians are pure Hawaiian Polynesian, another 5% mixed Hawaiian, a few percent other Polynesian like Samoan.
Are there anti-Asian attacks or just anti- white?
No carry permits allowed in Hawaii.
https://www.ammoland.com/2021/04/ninth-circuit-appeals-court-finds-no-right-to-bear-arms-in-second-amendment/#axzz6xETlgZVv
I thought that only white people could be charged with hate crimes.
But not by race.
If I'm ever on a jury hearing a "hate crime" case I'm voting not guilty. Period. OTOH,I may well vote guilty on the assault charges assuming there's sufficient evidence to justify such a vote.
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