Feds probe attack on Ga. reservist as hate crime (Just so were clear, this is a hate crime)

AP via Beaumont Enterprise ^ | 9-16-09 | DORIE TURNER

[blueglass]

The beating of a black female Army reservist outside a Georgia restaurant is being investigated as a possible hate crime, federal authorities said Wednesday.

Tashawnea Hill was kicked and punched by a white man Sept. 9 as he screamed racial slurs outside a Cracker Barrel in Morrow, about 15 miles southeast of Atlanta, police said. Troy D. West, 47, became enraged when Hill told him to be careful after he nearly hit her 7-year-old daughter while opening the restaurant's door, police said.

[blueglass]

Okay, so this fellow is accused of hitting a black lady, and so that is a hate crime. He hit her in front of her child, so the feds are also adding "cruelty to children" in there as well, for good measure.

But this isn't a hate crime, even though it took place around children as well. And this is definitely not a hate crime. Definitely not. Neither is this although it kind of seems that way to me. This is also not a hate crime in fact how dare you even think that it is. Jimmy Carter is right. You're all a bunch of racists. Erase the hate!

[mnehring]

All crimes are hate crimes. Crimes are not committed out of love. This guy should spend a long time in a small cell with a 400 pound guy nicknamed Tinkerbell, who thinks he is cute.

[sourcery]

All crimes are “hate crimes.”

[pissant]

Did anyone jump in to kick this punk’s ass?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

This will be hugh and series national news. Non-stop.

[Jack Black]

Did this guy play bass with the Doobie Brothers in the 1980s?

[blueglass]

I wonder if anyone laughed, because that’s okay.- That’s what we heard about the bus- it’s normal to laugh at these things.

[albie]

Great hairline though!

[skully]

So this happened outside a “Cracker” Barrel.

[Gay State Conservative]

Couldn't care less what the guy was saying or thinking.He assaulted another individual without justification.And worse,she was a member of the United States Armed Forces.The first point calls for serious punishment.The second one calls for serious punishment times five!

Colorado SuperMax for this filthbag!

[blueglass]

Well, it did take place at a “Cracker Barrel”, which is kind of funny.

[Responsibility2nd]

Yet a black thug can assault a white girl and get away with it on MTV.

[misterrob]

That dress was an assault on the eyes.....

[pissant]

Not sure, but he’ll be playing wife to some big black guy in the penn.

[blueglass]

Free your mind, you hater. ha ha I kid

[Nea Wood]

Did anyone jump in to kick this punk’s ass?

I'm a 5'1" female, and I think I could kick his ass singlehandedly! We will hear about this case endlessly, while cases where the races are reversed will be buried.

[brytlea]

I did not think I could laugh at this thread. But, I did. That was funny.

[what's up]

Why is this any more a hate crime than say what white Manson and his killers did to their white victims?

Hate is hate. Happens in Africa between blacks and blacks, between Chinese and Chinese and between whites and whites as well as between races.

Hate is hate period.

[LeonardFMason]

I wondered what happened to Kenny Rogers. Sad.

[GloriaJane]

"federal authorities said Wednesday. Tashawnea Hill was kicked and punched by a white man Sept. 9 as he screamed racial slurs"

Hate crime or not, throw the book at him!

His excuse? Claimed she spit on him when "Hill told him to be careful after he nearly hit her 7-year-old daughter while opening the restaurant's door, police said."

"But several witnesses said they never saw Hill spit on West."

She's an Army reservist! She's deserves better treatment then to be beaten and put in the hospital for just being a mother afraid for her child.

Throw the book at him!