LOL, the CNN coverage is hilarious. They keep bringing up a "hate crime" of someone leaving a pig head at the mosque several months ago. They are waiting to learn if these incidences are "connected".
Six dead in Quebec mosque shooting - CNN.com
So offending Muslims with lunch meat is now a "hate crime", and tantamount to murdering them.
Dear
theHawk
no, "connected" does not mean the two acts are the same or the same level of hate crime.
I think "connected" means if the same group is responsible for the two acts.
If the same person or group of conspirators commits both a robbery at a bank, theft of a car or credit card,
and killing someone in the commission of these crimes, those acts are "connected" in terms of collective evidence and determining motive
but not all these acts are the same or "tantamount" to each other.