[Zuben Elgenubi]

" . . . said the man admitted to the hoax and will not face criminal charges."

What the h*ll is this happy horsesh*t? This should be categorized as a hate crime in Baltimore.

[GoLightly]

“What the h*ll is this happy horsesh*t? This should be categorized as a hate crime in Baltimore.”

Don’t count when a “minority” is the majority.

http://www.hellobaltimore.com/Census.Cfm

[ClearCase_guy]

Sums up the problem with hate crimes. The action is not necessarily against the law (as we see here, this man is not charged). To decide if the law has been broken, we must look into a man's heart and decide what we see there. Do we see hate? Do we see a sense of humor? Depending on this ephemeral, invisible, intangible data which can only be seen by the discerning eye, we can determine if the man should be prosecuted.

In other words: the law is tool that we use to "get" the people we want to get, and allows us to ignore the people we want to protect.

[MichiganCheese]

In my opinion, it’s more than a hoax. He was trying to falsely pin the blame on someone to get them charged with a hate crime or at the very least, ruin their career and livelihood.

Now tell me; who is the hateful one?

[Right Wing Assault]

will not face criminal charges

Darn! Al Sharpton could have defended him. It wasn't racism, but it could have been and it's the seriousness of the possible crime that counts.

[ArcadeQuarters]

There’s an incredible amount of racism involved in this case. First the act itself was designed to incite hatred of white people and to deny them employment. Then when a black man admitted to the racist hoax, “a spokesman for the Police Department and for Mayor Sheila Dixon, said the man admitted to the hoax and will not face criminal charges.”