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Victim: Near North Red Line robbery not a hate crime
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 12, 2010

Posted on 05/12/2010 2:47:36 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A 25-year-old law student robbed of his cell phone on a Red Line train believes the incident had everything to do with his high-tech phone and nothing to do with a hate crime, contrary to what Chicago police had suggested earlier today.

Five teenagers were charged in connection with the overnight robbery on the L.

After a night of studying ahead of final exams at DePaul University, the victim -- who asked that his name not be publicized out of concern over retaliation - said he boarded an inbound train for his North Side home.

When he noticed the group of teens already on board, he sat with others on the other end of the train car. As he tapped away on his touch-screen smart phone, he noticed that the group seemed to edge closer and closer to him. As the group exited the train at the Grand Avenue stop, one of teens tried grabbing the phone from the victim, which led to a momentary back-and-forth struggle, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagobreakingnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; hatecrime
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Must have been a crime of passion, not hate.
1 posted on 05/12/2010 2:47:37 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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Liberal white college boy robbed by black gang survives and tries to put the episode in the best politically correct light. “It wasn’t me... it was my cool phone.” Maybe he’ll learn a bit more about the world we live in the next time he’s mugged.


2 posted on 05/12/2010 2:53:22 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Bet if the victim had pulled some ‘Epic Beard Man’ on the little thugs, it would have been a hate crime for sure.

http://www.break.com/fights/epic-beard-man-bus-fight.html


3 posted on 05/12/2010 2:53:35 PM PDT by highnoon (Why don't mexicans cross the border in 3's? Because it says no trespassing)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What a relief! That makes things all better.


4 posted on 05/12/2010 2:56:51 PM PDT by Nepeta
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Well, how PC are we! They picked him because he was white and was perceived as “weak” - the same reason given by the thugs who attacked Bernie Goetz. Of course, Goetz had a surprise for them, but this kid is busy apologizing for his attackers.


5 posted on 05/12/2010 2:57:06 PM PDT by livius
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yep. 5 youths from the city of Reverend Wright happen to mug the guy in the kippah. Nothing to see here. PC idiot.


6 posted on 05/12/2010 2:57:55 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Does every inter-racial crime have to be a hate crime? Not that it should make any difference. They stole his phone, whether they called him a honkey jew cracker or whatever in the process is irrelevent....


7 posted on 05/12/2010 3:02:16 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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Why it is impossible for a black to commit a hate crime. That goes double for a group of blacks, and triple if they are youts.

On the contrary, we know the Jew gang member (distinguished by the small cap on his head displaying gang colors) had swindled many innocent blacks out of the fruits of their welfare checks and food stamps, and purchased the cell phone WHOLESALE, the cad. So there was not even a crime here, just rightful reappropriation, and police racial profiling.

8 posted on 05/12/2010 3:06:06 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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Good point - the whole “hate crime” thing is a bit ridiculous, but it is frustrating to see it be a one-way PC ratchet. Blacks mug the Jewish white guy - nothing to see. White guys mug a black guy - presumptively a “hate crime”. God forbid the victim is gay too, then we’re in overdrive.


9 posted on 05/12/2010 3:07:16 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Kind of like the white Liberal woman being raped in Haiti and telling her attacker she was a big Malcolm X fan.

The indoctrination is complete, the Liberal is a suicidal moron who has no common sense or resolve.


10 posted on 05/12/2010 3:08:41 PM PDT by wac3rd (Prepare for the November 2010 Tsunami)
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You mean it was a “I really, really like you” crime?


11 posted on 05/12/2010 3:08:55 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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we know the Jew gang member (distinguished by the small cap on his head displaying gang colors)

LOL!! Well played.
12 posted on 05/12/2010 3:09:12 PM PDT by rockvillem
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Does every inter-racial crime have to be a hate crime?

No, but inter-racial gang targeting often has "hate" as an extra selection factor.

13 posted on 05/12/2010 3:09:29 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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I wonder if the Chicago Police have a loooonnnngggg memory.
14 posted on 05/12/2010 3:15:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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the boy done got his azz handed to him...
15 posted on 05/12/2010 3:50:50 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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tooo funny...
16 posted on 05/12/2010 3:52:47 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: ConservativeStatement

There are none so blind as those who won’t see.


17 posted on 05/12/2010 4:14:01 PM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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As we ALL know by now, hate crimes - by definition - can ONLY be committed by White people.


18 posted on 05/12/2010 4:32:52 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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I always play with my expensive electronic toys late at night on public transportation when there is a gang of youths nearby.


19 posted on 05/12/2010 4:36:08 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey (The bigger the government = The smaller the people)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

What is his problem? He just had a little wealth sharing. If he didn’t want to redistribute the wealth he should have driven his car to school


20 posted on 05/12/2010 4:40:35 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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