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When is a Race Crime Not a Race Crime?
Capitol Hill Journal ^ | Jan 17, 2006 | Jim Kouri

Posted on 04/18/2006 2:23:20 PM PDT by WatchYourself

Many residents in New York City are unhappy with the disposition of the killing of a white New York University student by four black youths who chased him into oncoming traffic resulting in the student's death.

First, the New York City Police Department refused to charges the four perpetrators with a bias crime. A spokesperson with the NYPD claimed the killing was not racially motivated even though one of the suspects was heard screaming "get the white boy!" The NYPD spokesperson said the case was being treated as a robbery, not a hate crime.

However, the prosecutor said the four street toughs would be charged as adults. The initial charges were second-degree murder and robbery.

However, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced today that a New York County grand jury has completed hearing evidence in the case involving the four teenagers which resulted in the death of Broderick Hehman, the 20-year-old NYU student.

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


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KEYWORDS: race; racism; whitevictim
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1 posted on 04/18/2006 2:23:21 PM PDT by WatchYourself
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To: WatchYourself

Watch out NYers. It's getting to be Dinkins Time again.


2 posted on 04/18/2006 2:26:00 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: OldFriend

I don't care how "safe" New York City has gotten in the last 15 years. Anyone walking around in Harlem after dark ought to have his head examined.


3 posted on 04/18/2006 2:27:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: OldFriend

If a Black is victimized in this way, it's a hate crime. If a homosexual is vicitimized in this way, it's a hate crime. If a White is victimized in this way, it's not a hate crime. We all need our political correctness guidebooks to refer to so we know how these events will be treated by the media and law enforcement.


4 posted on 04/18/2006 2:28:34 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

This is such BS.........when are we going to make these political hacks accountable for this type of travesty of justice. What these PC freaks are doing is slowly but surely diminishing the value of what a "white person's" life is worth.......what is their ultimate goal here?


5 posted on 04/18/2006 2:33:01 PM PDT by american spirit
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To: WatchYourself
When is a Race Crime Not a Race Crime?

When it's committed AGAINST a white person?

6 posted on 04/18/2006 2:34:30 PM PDT by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: WatchYourself

Besides, as "Fat Al" Sharpton would say, what were the "white interlopers" doing down there in the first play.


7 posted on 04/18/2006 2:34:46 PM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: infidel29

Those black guys are sure lucky the white guy wasn't gay.


8 posted on 04/18/2006 2:35:29 PM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: infidel29

Or a Christian.

Or an Orthodox Jew.


9 posted on 04/18/2006 2:35:36 PM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here in what some call Aztlan.")
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To: FormerLib
Or a Christian.
Or an Orthodox Jew.

I thought that, but I decided to stick strictly with race.

10 posted on 04/18/2006 2:37:49 PM PDT by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: WatchYourself
the killing of a white New York University student by four black youths who chased him into oncoming traffic resulting in the student's death.


I'm sure we'll be hearing from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on this. There's no double-standard here! < /sarcasm>
11 posted on 04/18/2006 2:38:05 PM PDT by CurlyBill (Democratic Party = Surrender Party)
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The student gave a dollar to a homeless person and the pack of dogs set upon him. He ran into the street to escape them and was hit by a car. They stood by laughing and made no attempt to call for help or ask anyone else to call for help.


12 posted on 04/18/2006 2:38:49 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: OldFriend

Sounds like a pack of wild dogs.

Can we charge them with impersonating a human being?


13 posted on 04/18/2006 2:40:01 PM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here in what some call Aztlan.")
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14 posted on 04/18/2006 2:40:27 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com/)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Sorry,but this is the white mans fault.We sit back and do nothing time and time again,and soon we will not have any say in this country.


15 posted on 04/18/2006 2:41:35 PM PDT by patriciamary
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If a Black is victimized in this way, it's a hate crime. If a homosexual is vicitimized in this way, it's a hate crime. If a White is victimized in this way, it's not a hate crime. We all need our political correctness guidebooks to refer to so we know how these events will be treated by the media and law enforcement.

100% correct; Only us white folk can hate.

16 posted on 04/18/2006 2:44:46 PM PDT by Marine Inspector (Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem)
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To: WatchYourself

When its black on white.


17 posted on 04/18/2006 2:46:42 PM PDT by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Be quiet whitey, and get to work and pay those taxes. KNOW that you are now the slave. You are NOT entitled to any special grants, incentive programs. You will NOT be the first considered for any job, simply because you are more qualified. Your skin is white. That makes you responsible for all the problems in the world.


18 posted on 04/18/2006 2:46:46 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: WatchYourself

I'm sorry, but separate crimes for the same crime? Whee.. So someone doesn't like something. Where's the hate crime for economic status? Doesn't exist? Shows how valuable the whole concept is.

I'm hoping that some day the SCOTUS will slap this idiotic notion down.


19 posted on 04/18/2006 2:47:59 PM PDT by kingu
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To: Dilbert San Diego
If a Black is victimized in this way, it's a hate crime. ...If a White is victimized in this way, it's not a hate crime.

I prefer that it not be a hate crime no matter what color the victim or the perp is. The idea that a motive of hate makes a murder victim more dead than a motive of robbery is illogical.
20 posted on 04/18/2006 2:49:05 PM PDT by redheadtoo
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