This is an outrageous crime; something which anyone should become upset over no matter the origin and nationality of the victim.
That being said, calling this a hate crime in order to worsen the charges is complete bull. A crime is a crime no matter the skin color of a person.
That was a group of hoodlums, however you color it.
Yep. All violent crimes are crimes of hate. It's a slippery slope when we begin to adjudicate someone's emotions and not their actions. There are plenty of crimes that these punks could have been charged with besides some type of "hate" enhancer - menacing, incitement etc. etc.
Having said that, justice was not served here. No one has the right to murder - and this was murder. I'm afraid that there may have been some kind of jury nullification in this case. Some of these states have such strange laws. I'm not sure how a death can result from a "simple assault" and the person not be found guilty of at least manslaughter. Very odd.
We only know what the leftist media reported as to the facts of the case. Obviously, that story was not so true or they would have been convicted of the crimes the newspapers said they committed.
Remember the Leftist newspapers jumped on this story when conservatives managed to shoot down shamnesty. This was to prove that being against illegal immiragion was “hate” and inspired “hate crimes.”
So now we know the rest of the story.