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Feds charge white man with hate crime in first ‘knockout’ prosecution

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The Obama administration filed a federal hate-crimes charge Thursday against a man whom authorities accused of using the “knockout game” to target a black man, videotaping it, and then bragging about the assault to strangers.

The charge marks the first time the administration has taken action on a “knockout” case after the game became an Internet and media phenomenon. It chose a case in which the person accused is white, even though most other cases reported in the news have involved black assailants.


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what's with the "hate crime" stuff? There is plenty of charges to pick from ( assault with intent to..).

Isn't every crime a hate crime?? It's a prosecutor's dream. label it a hate crime, and up the penalties..
I'd prefer to just charge them on their actions
 
The Obama administration filed a federal hate-crimes charge Thursday against a man whom authorities accused of using the “knockout game” to target a black man, videotaping it, and then bragging about the assault to strangers.

The charge marks the first time the administration has taken action on a “knockout” case after the game became an Internet and media phenomenon. It chose a case in which the person accused is white, even though
most other cases reported in the news have involved black assailants
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ninety-percent-blacks-v-whites.jpg
 
I heard a report this morning saying he wanted to do it to a black person to see if it would make the news. He's getting his answer.

This is another case of the Holder-run justice department going after a White person rather than prosecuting the dozens and dozens of these attacks perpetrated by Blacks.

Transparent indeed.
 
No he won't. He's bi-polar.

Probably the single largest broad brush term in psych. It literally means nothing, as it is an umbrella for about 40 separate conditions, often times having no relation to one another nor existing in the same person. Mild mood disorder to hospitalize on sight.

I loathe the term. It just shows me how clueless psych really is. More or less, it's designed around medication management.
 
Probably the single largest broad brush term in psych. It literally means nothing, as it is an umbrella for about 40 separate conditions, often times having no relation to one another nor existing in the same person. Mild mood disorder to hospitalize on sight.

I loathe the term. It just shows me how clueless psych really is. More or less, it's designed around medication management.

... and the pharmacological-industrial complex.
 
It's a heinous cowardly thing to do to anyone, but to announce the race element, and brag about it, is begging for the extra penalty to be applied. As for the ludicrous idea that he's the only white guy to have ever done it, anyone pushing that has severe problems with reality.
 
Hate crime legislation -- the idea that doing the exact same illegal physical act is more illegal if you think the way the state does not like.
 
It's a heinous cowardly thing to do to anyone, but to announce the race element, and brag about it, is begging for the extra penalty to be applied. As for the ludicrous idea that he's the only white guy to have ever done it, anyone pushing that has severe problems with reality.

Yeah, guy acts like an idiot, and apparently he's the victim.
 
The stated motive is readily available in this case, whereas in the vast majority of others is purely speculative and therefore not a worthwhile avenue to pursue. Shouldn't be much of a controversy to be quite frank. Of course, that would squander a perfectly good opportunity to drum up fears of white persecution at the hands of a black President and Attorney General.
 
Hate crime legislation -- the idea that doing the exact same illegal physical act is more illegal if you think the way the state does not like.

Yes, because our Democracy has had people vote legislators into power who believe this. Because the majority of the population wants to send a message that this type of behavior is unacceptable. This idea that the state exists in some kind of vacuum is foolish. "The state" is a reflection of the will of the voters.
 
Yes, because our Democracy has had people vote legislators into power who believe this. Because the majority of the population wants to send a message that this type of behavior is unacceptable. This idea that the state exists in some kind of vacuum is foolish. "The state" is a reflection of the will of the voters.

You mean this thinking is unacceptable? The exact same physical act is more illegal because your thinking is not state approved.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, right?
 
You mean this thinking is unacceptable? The exact same physical act is more illegal because your thinking is not state approved.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, right?

I gotta give this one a like for the literary reference.
 
You mean this thinking is unacceptable? The exact same physical act is more illegal because your thinking is not state approved.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, right?

Way to completely ignore what I said to shoehorn in your absurd literary hyperbole.
 
You said that the false security of consensus should be used to punish thought, right?
Yes, that's a fair characterization, and not at all blatantly dishonest.
 
Yes, that's a fair characterization, and not at all blatantly dishonest.

If the act of the same, yet only the thinking is different, where is the "unfair" characterization?
 
Yeah, guy acts like an idiot, and apparently he's the victim.
You CANT be stupid enough to believe that anyone is supporting the idea that the perpetrator is the 'victim'...right? SURELY you have at LEAST enough going on in your dome to recognize that the upset is over the blatant hypocrisy of ignoring the knockout game, minimizing it, pretending it isnt a problem, doing nothing about it then BOOM...all of a sudden there is fed involvement when a white guy punches a black guy. There have been numerous incident requiring hospitalization, permanent damage, and in some cases even death...but none of those were deemed significant. THIS incident demands action? Hypocrisy.

There should not be ANYONE charged with 'hate crimes'. They should all be charged with the crime they committed and their sentencing should reflect their wanton disregard for human life. Race should not come into it.
 
It's a heinous cowardly thing to do to anyone, but to announce the race element, and brag about it, is begging for the extra penalty to be applied. As for the ludicrous idea that he's the only white guy to have ever done it, anyone pushing that has severe problems with reality.

The Libbos swore up-n-down that the "knockout game" was a myth created by Conservatives to oppress black people.
 
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