Trevon Revisited again, unfortunately...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not everyone.  Some of us assumed it was a hate crime from go. Others seemed to take the stance that it wasn't necessarily a hate crime as a way to justify or minimize what happened.

Boru

I don't think this assessment is accurate.  I like to hear the facts before making up my mind definitively.  Many of these crimes appear from the start to be hate crimea.  Waiting to hear, or see, confirmation of same is not the same as minimizing or justifying a hate crime.  It's waiting for the facts to be revealed.  Supposedly we don't prosecute based on assumption but rather on the facts.

It's got nothing to do with prosecuting anyone for anything. When two white men jump in a truck to chase a black man and that black man ends up dead, my biases lead me to conclude 'hate crime'.  It may not be justifiable, it certainly isn't fair, but that's how I work - nothing I can do about it.

And not everyone who took a wait-and-see stance was trying to 'justify or minimize'.  I should have been clearer about that, sorry.

But does McMichael using the n-word repeatedly lean you to believe that this incident was - at least in part - racially motivated?

Boru