Posted on 06/30/2011 12:22:38 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Prosecutors say the brutal beating of a teenager last week in Columbia's Five Points doesn't appear to have been racially motivated, but the U.S. attorney is still reviewing the case.
Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson, who will prosecute the eight people charged with attacking 18-year-old Carter Strange on June 20 before leaving him for dead, said no evidence suggests the beating was racially motivated other than the race of the people involved. Strange is white; the eight suspects are black.
However, Johnson said his office asked U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles to review the evidence to make sure hate crime charges are not warranted. A hate crime is legally defined as an attack motivated entirely or primarily by prejudice.
The seven juveniles charged with attacking Strange faced a judge on Monday, who granted a request that the defendants stay in jail until trial. The unnamed suspects' next court date hasn't been scheduled yet, according to Johnson.
The eighth suspect, 19-year-old Thyeem Henrey, appeared in court on Friday afternoon. The judge set bond at $750,000, which must be paid in full to allow Henrey's release.
Police say Strange was jogging home just after midnight when the suspects approached him in a parking lot near Blossom Street and beat him up. A passerby found him a block away two hours later, and called 911.
Strange said he had to have emergency brain surgery and facial reconstruction surgery after the attack, but is making a remarkable recovery. "My physical condition is amazing," said Strange. "I mean, the condition I'm in right now is a miracle."
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Free the Five Points Eight! /sarc
If the victim be white, you can beat him all night.
Nettlesome problem.
This is ridiculous. Eight black guys allegedly beat up one white guy, and that’s not viewed as a hate crime. Gee, what a shocker.
But then, hate crime designations are inane. If you get beat up, you get beat up.
Oh, puleeze! Bill Nettles(the DA) went to my high school, so he knows this neighborhood where the perps came from. He’s afraid of a riot. Bad form, Bill!!!
Nothing to see here because he is making a “remarkable recovery.” And we’re assured that the perp must pay ALL $750k IN FULL.... right.
Whitey lost, POS Holder is pleased.
This would be a great opportunity to get rid of “hate” crimes altogether.
It would be racist to have a color-blind justice system.
Who takes the leftist clowns are their faux-morality seriously anymore?
Rule #1- Only white people can be guilty of hate crimes.
Bull Obama.
If they were on video screaming “kill whitey” the gov’t will still find a way to say its not racism.
True dat. LOL
Our entire nation is being extorted by the threat of racially instigated riots. The Progressives have placed us in this position; any legal actions against an usurper president will result in the nation burning.
I say, “Let them try!”
Enough of this crap, from the worlds most worthless man and getting away with it.
Well, they do have one point in their favor.
Statistically, blacks committing a violent crime on a white victim certainly isn’t a rarity.
If they riot, there will be two possible outcomes.
They will burn down their own neighborhoods, causing HUNDREDS of dollars in damages,
or they will go to other neighborhoods, and face armed homeowners defending their homes.
Reverse the colors and see if there would not be hate crime prosecution.
Would 8 whites beating a black kid constitute a hate crime?
With hate crime laws it works like this:
A group of black guys beat up a white guy, they may get 2 or 3 years for assault. Maybe.
A black guy gets beat up by a white guy— twenty years to life — Hate Crime.
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