Police say attack on Mich. student not hate crime

Associated Press ^ | August. 28, 2012 | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER

[Free ThinkerNY]

DETROIT (AP) -- Police say an attack on a Michigan State University student at an off-campus party is not being investigated as a hate crime.

Zach Tennen says he was at a party when two men asked if he was Jewish, and when he responded "yes," punched him in the face.

[Abathar]

You may be right, usually 20 people don’t stand around while two guys staple someone’s lips shut without trying somehow to intervene.

Still, if he was stapled that goes far beyond just breaking his jaw with a couple of punches, there must have been something to motivate them taking it that far.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This means that the victim is white and the perps are Eric Holder's people.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Other information: According to the victim, the attackers said “they were with the KKK”.

[Arrowhead1952]

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Since Aug 24, 2012

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Another n00bie during the RNC convention.

[Hot Tabasco]

while two guys staple someone’s lips shut

Watch the kid's interview, his lips were NOT stapled shut. He found a staple lodged in his gums.......Drunk college kids are known to eat the stupidist things so it's likely that whatever he ate on a dare had a staple in it........

[Trod Upon]

Or muzzywuzzies.

[Hardraade]

Hold these test papers and watch this...

[luvbach1]

Of course it was a “hate crime.” But I never have agreed that a murder or a grievous assault is more serious because the perpetrators hated the victim.

[Izzy Dunne]

The victim is White, not a female and, furthermore, is not Muslim.

Three strikes and you're out.

[Hot Tabasco]

Of course it was a “hate crime.”

Why?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cripplecreek.

[South40]

The left never commits hate crimes.

[School of Rational Thought]

Not on Michigan State campus. “Victim” attended MSU, attacker of unknown origin, nor if any relationship to MSU.

[School of Rational Thought]

When a guy gets his lips stapled shut and his jaw broke after getting a Nazi salute then how the hell isn’t it a hate crime?

That is the story reported by the beat downee and apparently no evidence to support it. The story as reported this morning was fishy, and the subsequent actions by kid via twitter etc. really made it stink. Romney is a felon, racist, murderer, someone said so.

[Krankor]

Witnesses must not be backing up the “victim’s” story.

I'm guessing that's what happened. If he didn't know anyone at the party, why would they ask him if he was Jewish? It sounds like a couple of drunken jerks just decided to pick on him and no one stepped in to help. He got pissed (which I don't blame him) and decided to make a hate crime out of it to really nail their asses. That's my theory- but I could be totally wrong.

[Iron Munro]

How can it possibly be a Hate Crime?

The victim is not black.

The victim is not a muslim.

The victim is not queer.

[luvbach1]

Of course it was a “hate crime.” Why?

It is by the defintion given it by the proponents and advocates of that law, of which I am not one. As far as I'm concerned it was an assault. I don't believe it's a lesser offense if one doesn't hate his victim.

[Hot Tabasco]

It sounds like a couple of drunken jerks just decided to pick on him and no one stepped in to help.

Latest story on this morning's news is police are denying a hate crime charge. It's also been revealed that it was a fight over a girl, which explains alot.

Kid probably got suckerpunched and ended up with the broken jaw, nobody called the cops because there wasn't a beat-down going on plus since alcohol was on the premises, both parties involved as well as the witnesses were likely all drinking.

In the interview at the kid's home the only sign of injury is the kid's swollen jaw....no black eyes, no stapled lips.

As typical of over reactive parents, instead of them looking at this as a valuable life lesson for their under age, 19 year old drunk kid, they're lawyering up ......

I've been in several fights while in the army, witnessed many more, and at the end of the night you just go back to the barracks and the next morning you try to convince the guys that the other guy looked worse than you. You didn't run home to mom and dad........

[cripplecreek]

Yeah that’s the way it looks to me.

[exnavy]

These folks stapled his mouth closed out of love.