Sadly, the victim is white, so, this clearly is not a hate crime

[elder999]

I have no dog in this fight. The McDonalds fight was used to show a minoity was convicted of hate crime against a majority and thats just not the case in this incident.

No, that's not what I was showing at all. While the other cases quoted would fulfill that (rather absurd) demographic, what shesulsa said was:

I ask because I rarely hear any non-white being convicted of crimes being called hate-based unless it's a terrorist crime.

And I was just showing that it did, in fact, happen in areas where such a distinction has been made possible.

 

[shesulsa]

Thanks for the clarification, Jeff. I want to do some thinking here on race and crime before I comment more on it, though would like to read your thoughts on how hate lends itself to intent, ongoing intent, and how this helps/hinders in the legal process.