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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by dippin
So the whole point of the legislation is to address intent. We already do that when we discuss the different degrees of crime, the legislation merely adds something regarding prejudice.
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So what you're saying is that it was okay before to commit these crimes like because the INTENT not addressed and this law encompases that making it no longer okay.
The crime listed below along with crime against Matthew Shepard who was tied to a fence, beat and left to die because of his was gay, and James Byrd, a Texas man who was brutally murdered by being dragged behind a pickup truck because he was African American, all were okay before because well, they weren't crimes since they involved the hate as the intent.
Two years after son's death, mother finds solace in hate crimes bill - CNN.com
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"My son was murdered as he was leaving a bar in Greenville, South Carolina," the 48-year-old woman told CNN about her son, Sean, who was 20 when he came face-to-face with what she calls a hate crime. "He walked outside the bar and there was three people sitting in a car outside and they called him over to ask him for a cigarette."
It was 3:45 a.m. on May 16, 2007, and her underage son was legally drunk, but not so much that he couldn't give them the cigarette. He did so, then turned to walk away. He did not get far, she said.
"As he was walking away, the guy in the back seat got out and walked over to Sean and called him a faggot and punched him in the face."
The men got back into their car and drove off, leaving Sean on the ground, his brain separated from his brain stem, she said.
Fifteen minutes later, the 18-year-old assailant called one of the women whom Sean had been with in the bar and left a message on her cell phone.
"You tell your faggot friend when he wakes up he owes me 500 dollars for my broken hand," the message said.
Sean was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced brain dead 17 hours later.
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So your logic to me, in it's simplest form means, since the intent was hate the crime itself was okay before.
In your explanation of using the court system, how about the DA did a shitty job and didn't prosecute the actual crime properly?
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