[Buckeye McFrog]

The FBI announced that it “is evaluating the evidence to determine if there were any violations of federal law.”

WHY?? State law is more than capable of handling this. It appears he killed two men in cold blood. If proven in court he'll likely get the death penalty.

[Simon Green]

He certainly deserves a quick execution, to all appearances.

[Eagles6]

Yes but this sad story furthers the narrative that America is full of racist Crackers.

Blacks murder a White victim about every 12 hrs but Whites murdering blacks is rare so they have to milk this for everything they can.

Prayers for the victims.

[metmom]

Exactly.

And the hero killed two OLD people in cold blood.

He picked the most defenseless.

[Gen.Blather]

“WHY?? “

Because there are a raft of laws giving special consideration for “hate” crimes. They are above and beyond regular crimes, I’d guess because “hate” crimes, such as murder, are so much worse than just ordinary murder. It is one thing to be murdered. But it is, apparently, quite another to be hated while being murdered.

My personal feeling is, murder is murder and we already have laws for that. Hate crimes are intended to show that politicians are sensitive to “feelings,” I suppose. Actually, I am not certain of the logic behind the idea of hate crimes. The problem is they require proving not just that the crime took place but that the perpetrator had certain feelings to go along with the crime. They should, in theory, be almost impossible to prove because the prosecution must show what somebody was thinking when they perpetrated the crime.