yall can have that one, we dont claim her
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What the Jesus Fucking Christ
My money is on "alt-right" brain rot. Some people actually believe they are in a holy/race war for survival.
Poor, poor bastards.
Seriously.
Just toss this one off a cliff save the money
This kind of shit is why I still believe in a death penalty.
Death penalty is expensive, and I don't believe in spending more money than necessary on scum like this.
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drown 3 year old ... child
That's just being fucking demonic for the public
Palestinian Muslim
With current events, yes its a hate crime
I mean shouldn't it be a hate crime regardless of current events?
But yes.
A hate crime is when the crime intentionally targets a specific demographic.
So it should still be considered a hate crime regardless of current events, no?
This is true. Hopefully it doesn’t negatively affect the case against this person. Specifying it as a hate crime means that will need to be proved in the court. Or maybe I’m not understanding the law as well as LegalEagle makes me think.
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This happened in Texas?
I’m amazed she was even arrested. I’m assuming a full pardon with an apology will be forthcoming.
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Wanting to murder a child I can understand but you're not supposed to actually do it. Wtf is wrong with people these days.
If you don't consider them human, you don't consider it murdering a human child.
That's the problem with bigotry. It makes people view others as less-than-human.
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Y'allqueda in full swing in the US.
Ain't no hate like Christian love.
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She actually needs the DA to add those hate crimes to the charges so that Abbott can pardon her later, just attempted capital murder and injury to a child aren't going to cut it with him.
Wow. Made it 42 years and thought "I need to murder a child"
To be fair, it was a toddler.
/s in case that wasn't obvious.
Also, "possible hate crime"? It clearly was. Getting really tired of these bullshit headlines that don't actually say what happened. The "alleged" for the crime since they haven't been convicted is already in the headline, that's fine, I get he legal distinction there, but then say what's actually alleged and don't try to hide the reality of what's alleged. This is clearly a hate crime, there's no question of that. It's not an alleged possible hate crime, it's just an alleged hate crime.
According to a press release from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the mother appeared to be visibly Muslim, as she was wearing a hijab and modest swimwear to the pool at the time of the incident.
Police said Wolf also asked the mother if two of the children in the pool were hers before allegedly attempting to grab one of them, a 6-year-old boy, who was able to get away.
Wolf also allegedly snatched the mother’s headscarf off while she tried to save her daughter and beat her with it, according to CAIR.
It's a CYA thing.
She was charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child. ... The Euless Police Department has recommended that the incident be considered a hate crime and the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office is currently investigating it
"Alleged" is what the DA has charged.
"Possible" is what the DA might add to the charges.
The opinions of the reporter, who is not a lawyer much less a prosecutor, are not helpful.
“Possible” is what the DA might add to the charges.
If the DA hasn't added that already based on even this limited public information, I question their ability to do their damned job. There's nothing "possible" about this being racially motivated, which clearly makes it a hate crime. The initial charges should have been for a hate crime and adjusted to remove that if necessary.
But it's Texas, they don't want to prosecute white people for being racist against anyone brown, that sets a precedent with the public they don't want.
If the DA hasn't added that already based on even this limited public information
The DA also has access to non-public information, including potential exculpatory evidence.
Can't imagine what sort of exculpatory evidence there could be for someone asking where someone is from, then trying to drown their child, and beating them with their hijab. There is a pretty damned cut and dry racial motive there. Unless the white woman was secretly Muslim somehow it seems pretty straightforward.
Or... the simplest explanation is that it's a smaller suburb of Dallas-Ft Worth where the largest ethnic group by far is white, in a district that went 62.2% Republican in the 2022 election, and the government officials don't want to publicly denounce racism like that because that's what the citizens in that area expect of their government.
Can't imagine what sort of exculpatory evidence there could be
Not being able to imagine something doesn't mean it can't exist.
the simplest explanation is that it's a smaller suburb of Dallas-Ft Worth
Suburbs don't prosecute, the county DA does. This county voted for Biden in 2020, and it prosecuted 42 hate crimes in 2022.
Suburbs don’t prosecute, the county DA does. And this county voted for Biden in 2020.
You're right, and Presidential elections don't do a good job of showing anything about local matters. Gotta look at the local elections. Since you brought it up...
In the 2022 general election the County Clerk, Criminal District Attorney, Constable, District Clerk, and County Judge elected were all Republican. In fact, the only race not won by a Republican was one of 2 open County Commissioner seats, which a Dem barely won with 51.5% of the vote.
Notice that Criminal District Attorney, Phil Sorrells (R), was just elected in 2022. Prior to that, he was a Judge for Tarrant County Criminal Court Number 10 for 25 years. I'd be willing to bet if someone went back through his criminal sentencing over those 25 years it would show certain, shall we say, biases in those sentences, they almost always do. Sometimes that quack does come from a duck after all.
The previous DA was also a Republican, so it's clear that Republicans are capable of prosecuting hate crimes.
And I'd be willing to bet that Tarrant County charged as many hate crimes in 2023 as in previous years.
Wow, nothing deniable about that at all
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