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Attorney general: Hate crime charge unlikely if Dallas shooter acted alone
yahoo.com ^ | July 8, 2016 | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 07/09/2016 2:04:55 AM PDT by grundle

Attorney General Loretta Lynch told law enforcement union leaders Friday that it’s unlikely the Justice Department will pursue hate crime charges in Thursday’s Dallas shooting of police officers, Yahoo News has learned, because the suspect in the crime is dead.

Lynch told the leaders in the 45-minute meeting that a hate crime investigation would be on the table if more suspects are discovered, according to a police union official at the meeting. So far, investigators have said that evidence suggests the suspect, Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old Army veteran, acted alone. “We continue to have faith that the attorney general is going to take this as far as it goes,” the police union official said.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Friday morning the suspect in the murders of five police officers said he “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.” The suspect told police he was not affiliated with any group and that he was upset by recent police shootings of black men. Police later killed him with a robot-operated bomb.

Leaders of the Fraternal Order of Police, which represents more than 300,000 police officers, pressed Lynch during the meeting to consider investigating the crime as a hate crime. They also shared their concerns about the tone of the racially charged debate around police-involved shootings.

The federal hate crimes statute applies to offenders targeting people based upon their “actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin.”

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To: grundle

I don’t believe he acted alone for a minute.


21 posted on 07/09/2016 3:12:58 AM PDT by Califreak (Madeleine Albright says I'm going to hell. Cruz' dad called me an infidel. Long live the Uniparty!)
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To: Candor7

lynch investigation the black panthers organization? they refuse to investigate the muslims and mosques in this country. They are all working against us


22 posted on 07/09/2016 3:18:39 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (without the 1st we have no second)
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To: grundle

But, if he had been white, ...


23 posted on 07/09/2016 3:19:05 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: 4rcane

Of course Solo killers can engage in hate crimes! But hate crimes are amplifiers on other crimes and we don’t prosecute the dead.


24 posted on 07/09/2016 3:20:05 AM PDT by SleepySimon
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To: mdmathis6

She “ruled” on the case even though she was not ‘judge’.

Just like she “ruled” on the Clinton email case when she publically said (Comey’s ears included) she’d “take the FBI’s word on indictment” - basically telling him to recommend “no-indict”. Just like she “ruled” on the case by surreptitiously meeting with the HUSBAND of the investigation’s TARGET!


25 posted on 07/09/2016 3:21:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: grundle

“Attorney general: Hate crime charge unlikely if Dallas shooter acted alone”

Because, as we all know, it takes a village to hate...


26 posted on 07/09/2016 3:26:16 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: grundle
I will ever be amazed at the way the embedded enemies of America use language to say nothing of importance but to continue the destruction of the greatest nation on the planet ...



"Discover" more suspects ?


Watch the airports .... if these uppities start taking vacations at the same time ... we are being challenged by an armed force and had better be prepared and ready.

27 posted on 07/09/2016 3:29:59 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it ticks people off)
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To: grundle

Barbarians, the ignorantly superstitious, and flamboyant tyrants are the only people in history that prosecute the dead. We don’t need a hate-crime investigation to call the dead man a racist.


28 posted on 07/09/2016 3:30:00 AM PDT by SleepySimon
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To: Tax-chick

OK. Good point in comment #4.


29 posted on 07/09/2016 3:31:29 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

The m’fer wanted to ‘’kill white people’’. No racial bias here , nope. If homey wants to keep playing this ‘’kill whitey’’ game it’s going to end badly for him since blacks only comprise some 13% of the total population. That means the other 87% aren’t black. Numbers matter.


30 posted on 07/09/2016 3:32:51 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: Tax-chick

Why not, they dig them to vote.


31 posted on 07/09/2016 3:33:10 AM PDT by just me (GOD BLESS AMERICA Amen)
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To: Tax-chick

“Although I have no sympathy for the Attorney General, filing “hate crime” charges against a dead man would not be helpful,”
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Unless it is one of those statistics that won’t be included in future databases of “hate” crime...


32 posted on 07/09/2016 3:45:13 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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To: Tax-chick

Dead men don’t hate. :)

I agree with you. Was it a Hate Crime? Of course. Opening up an official line of inquiry of a hate crime by a dead man would be nothing more than throwing a bone to those who know hate crime legislation was never intended to apply to all.

I have no interest in POS being used as a token used to pacify those of us who believe no one, no group, is above the law.


33 posted on 07/09/2016 3:45:36 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: jmacusa

Yes, but they think all the rest of the minorities are with them, including hispanics. Which would put whitey in the minority. Over the past several months there have been reports of surging gun sales. You have to wonder who is it making up that “surge” that hadn’t been armed before. It isn’t “us”.


34 posted on 07/09/2016 3:51:01 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: grundle

OK, no charge, Lynch gave her reason.

But, did she acknowledged that the act by the dead man is hate and racially motivated, at the very least?


35 posted on 07/09/2016 3:53:28 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: 4Runner
The Hispanics I've known and worked with have no love or solidarity with homey, especially Mexicans. I'm in the process of filing a fire arms application myself.
36 posted on 07/09/2016 3:59:09 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: koalkracker1981
"Wasn’t there more shooters,....?"

Yes, but that didn't fit the narrative.

37 posted on 07/09/2016 4:02:53 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: grundle
Attorney general: Hate crime charge unlikely if Dallas shooter acted alone

Yeah, justice has already been served, you can only kill him so dead, after all.

Or, they could have taken him alive at the cost of more dead police, interrogated him to find out why he committed very public mass murder, spent millions on a trial and kept him in prison for several decades while his lawyers appealed his conviction.

Besides, he was black, and Loretta Lynch and Obama believe that blacks don't commit hate crimes, and that black people cannot be racist because they're black.

38 posted on 07/09/2016 4:07:55 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: grundle

Am I missing something? All day yesterday the news reported that one gunman was killed and two were in custody.......


39 posted on 07/09/2016 4:10:03 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I think they’re protecting the others who are rumored to be NOI.

If it all comes out it’ll blow their islam is a religion of peace nonsense and make even the DGIs start seeing the truth.


40 posted on 07/09/2016 4:20:34 AM PDT by Califreak (Madeleine Albright says I'm going to hell. Cruz' dad called me an infidel. Long live the Uniparty!)
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