Posted on 08/08/2013 5:58:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Employees of the Class A Brooklyn Cyclones, a New York Mets affiliate, arrived at work Wednesday morning to find swastikas and racial and anti-Semitic epithets painted on a statue of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese that is on display outside MCU Park...
"This is being treated as a bias crime," detective John Nevandro of the 60th precinct said in a statement. "Hate Crimes will investigate the incident.
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But a "hate crime"? I reject the entire idea of hate crimes even against PEOPLE.....how can you have a hate crime against a STATUE?
It goes against the concept of free speech.
What is the difference between a “bias” crime and a “hate” crime?
is it civil disobedience? ...
What would Rosa Parks say?
The only way to process a hate crime is to have a mind reader on retainer. Many alleged hate crimes were actually done by those looking to make whatever the other side is look bad for PR or political reasons. I too reject the notion of hate crimes as the motive is about making some of society special and others not so special.
Let’s see the surveillance video. Maybe it’s some of obama’s sons who did it.
These type of things are usually staged by blacks themselves. The race industry is fighting for survival.
Obama has done so much for race relations, don’t you think?
How foul WAS the Robinson statue?
I guarantee you if blacks committed this vandalism, you will NEVER hear about it.
It’s going to be a liberal or an Amish person that would look like the president.
IMO, a promo for that new movie.
If the perps are black, I doubt if we hear a word of this story again
I wonder if it will turn out like most of these “hate” crimes and be perpetrated by the supposed victim class?
Something smells here. I keep seeing the name Madonna Constantine in my mind’s eye. Will planted nooses be next?
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