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Hate Crimes: Murdered, But It's Not Official

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Someone caused your death, but rejoice! Its not personal, nobody hates you, and that death of yours… was not a murder, at least not officially according to our Justice System or the FBI.

 

Forget true natural causes or accidents, someone might take your life, but the manslayer only needs an impudent criminal lawyer, an impervious community and a partial judge and/or jury, and yes you may be dead but that is your problem, not theirs.

The FBI keeps a record of so-called “hate crimes” since 1995. Yet accounting for such has proved next to impossible. Incidents reported range from rape to assault to murder, and the bias encompasses race, ethnic origin, gender and religious allegiance.  The key is who brands those crimes as such.

While the FBI registers an average of 24 hate crime incidents reported to the police in 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported an average figure 7 times higher -another 150 daily incidents.

The difference stems from the fact that the “FBI counts only crimes that are reported to the police… BJS collects information from victims, who are asked if they think hate played a role in the crime” according to the study “Hate Crime in America” published by the National Institute of Justice in 2007.

While the authorities and the victims dispute on whether an attack should be regarded as ‘hate crime’ America is a mute bystander watching its safety and fairness crumble.

Remember that death in Shenandoah of the undocumented Mexican immigrant, father of two, Luis Ramirez at the hands of teenagers?

The jury decided that case was not a hate crime, and that it wasn’t a murder or even an aggravated assault.

Decide whether justice was served after reading these expressions from the jury foreman Eric Maclin on the Shenandoah case:

“I believe strongly that some of the people on the jury were racist.”

“I believe the four boys that were involved the most are racist.  I absolutely do.  Derrick Donchak –one of the perpetrators- wore a US Border Patrol t-shirt to a Halloween party after Luis died.  That is racist.  That is beyond in bad taste.  That is horrible.”

Horrible indeed, hate and murder may be rampant but remember it’s not official yet.

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