On the sidebar of the Knoxville New Sentinel you can link to the affidavits and the grand jury indictment of the suspects.
This crime leads to an interesting question: what makes a crime a hate crime?
We are assured that when James Byrd was dragged to death behind a truck by three white savages, he was the victim of a hate crime. What made that a hate crime? Was it the race of the victim and the murderers? Was it the brutality of the killing? Was it the senselessness of the murder?
I want people who insist that the Christian Newsome murderers is not a hate crime to tell me why a carjacking - a crime that is a heart a car theft – that turns into an orgy of gang rape and murder is not motivated by hate. You don’t gang rape and murder two young people over an extended period of time and then abandon the car, if you are looking to steal a car.
What was it that morphed a car theft into an orgy of rape and murder?
I can understand local officials ducking and weaving to avoid aggravating racial tensions. I can understand local and national media having a problem because this kind of thing is not what their template is designed for.
But isn’t there one honest voice among them?
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