The cops themselves have said it was poor decision making on the part of the children.
I’m sick of all the coddling of these criminal types. Let’s reverse the races and recreate the scene and see if it’s treated as poor decision making.
I’m not a lawyer, but it seems that kidnapping would be first on the list. (federal crime?) False imprisonment, assault and battery, assault with a deadly weapon, (multiple charges of both) I’m sure there are special penalties for doing these things to a mentally disabled person. And I’m also sure a good prosecutor can add another couple dozen charges. Illegal wiretapping maybe for broadcasting this against the victims will.
I don’t believe in the term hate crime. There’s enough real crimes to put these vermin away for a long time to reflct on their poor decision making skills.
To me, this is perhaps a greater crime than the crime itself. The head of the Cook County police actually said something to the effect these were ignorant perpetrators who made bad choices.
If I were in charge, he’d be brought up on charges for obstructing justice in not charging them and urging adjudication authorities to prosecute for hate crimes under the full extent of the law.
It is reprehensible. Are they willing to wait until when the same thing starts happening again, in reverse. Perhaps then they will take the one sided bias of their “hate crime” laws seriously and do something about it.