Posted on 07/09/2016 2:04:55 AM PDT by grundle
Attorney General Loretta Lynch told law enforcement union leaders Friday that its unlikely the Justice Department will pursue hate crime charges in Thursdays 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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What is Dark Weeble going on about?
I don't either. I bet some of his fellow Black Panthers were providing support. They just knew to scatter once that many officers got involved. And you know the gibsmedats black portion of the population are celebrating big time that whitey got shot. I don't believe the productive, employed, God fearing black people are though. A campaign needs to be established that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that George Soros is behind the #BLM (movement) and needs to be distributed among all their communities. Then we'll see how they feel when they discover a super rich white guy has been manipulating them the whole time.
Dylann Roof Indicted on Federal Hate Crime Charges in Charleston Church Massacre, Court Documents Say
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dylann-roof-hit-federal-hate-crime-charges-charleston/story?id=32620636
Hate crime laws should not exist to begin with, that is the real issue.
Hate crime laws are Nazi and Soviet style laws to begin with, criminalizing speech or deeply held beliefs.
Over in the UK and up in Canada saying the wrong things about Muslims or gays will have the “Hate Crimes Police” knocking on your door.
I want my minority benefits, preferred treatment, and special protections since whites are now the minority.
What about the three in custody?
If I were Dallas PD, I would block the feds from this one. Not welcome here.
“What about the three in custody?”
Please be patient.
Two were going to a bus station to pick up or drop off a brother, cousin, etc.
There is no video of a second shooter taken from a hotel window and broadcast nationwide.
Work is being done to scrub that information, however people like you keep bringing it up which means more scrubbing. We are as busy as Hillary with our cloth.
Be a patriot...shut up!
Don’t make us have to pay you a visit!
MIB
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What happened to all the other suspects???
Hey hot shot.....a bit early for that kind of snark
Perhaps you would rather have the perp kill a bunch more police or even blow himself up as they approached?
Black Police chiefs own son killed a cop. David brown jr
Me either
Im starting to give more validity to 1st reports than “conclusions”
What? No private hate? Just collective hate?
We are not stupid. The law addresses the conduct of INDIVIDUALS not groups.
I knew a Haitian guy who was here (probably illegally) working his butt off at every job he could get. He would not let his kids come over until they were fully adult. He did not want “the locals” to have any influence on them during their formative years. That has to tell you something.
My thoughts exactly!
I have no disagreements with you at all on the matter!
And everything associated with the confederacy had to be purged. The double standard is amazing.
Blacks can’t be racist and blacks can’t hate; doesn’t everyone understand that yet? The whole hate crime concept is a crock of bs anyway. Murder is murder, crime is crime. What difference does motivation make?
The leaders of BLM meet with Lynch.
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