Isn't one man pummeling another with a baseball bat a crime otherwise?
This whole "hate crime" thing leaves me cold...
Punish the crime, and don't worry about trying to guess what was going through his puny reptilian brain...
No. It's a 'hate crime' because he said the same word rappers use ad nauseam in their "music"
First of all, this kid is involved in two major assaults and he doesn't kill anybody. Come on, if he really had all this hate he should be able to murder somebody. And the guy himself admitted he was just rying to break the guy's legs and not his head. And his friend said it sounded like Barry Bonds (a black man) hitting a home run- if he had said Mark McGwyer that would be racist. And his victims are totally different. One is black and the other is a Sihk- I mean, does this guy hate everybody? I may not agree with his methods, but come on, just being arrested and tried for two major crimes should be enough to scare anyone straight.