Hate Crime or Free Speech?

[Seymour Flops]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.



Recapping, the defendants are allegedly caught on video and do not deny that they spray painted graffiti on the wall of a privately owned building. The graffiti included attacks on a particular religion and profanity.

They could have been charged with misdemeanor vandalism of private property. They prosecutor has decided that they will be charged with a felony hate crime.

Where do you fall on this issue?

 

[Manonthestreet]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.



Recapping, the defendants are allegedly caught on video and do not deny that they spray painted graffiti on the wall of a privately owned building. The graffiti included attacks on a particular religion and profanity.

They could have been charged with misdemeanor vandalism of private property. They prosecutor has decided that they will be charged with a felony hate crime.

Where do you fall on this issue?

Drop the hammer

 

[Rawley]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.



Recapping, the defendants are allegedly caught on video and do not deny that they spray painted graffiti on the wall of a privately owned building. The graffiti included attacks on a particular religion and profanity.

They could have been charged with misdemeanor vandalism of private property. They prosecutor has decided that they will be charged with a felony hate crime.

Where do you fall on this issue?

Hate crime. Hands down

 

[Hafar1014]

Hate crime no doubt

 

[SassyIrishLass]

If Jews had done it to their mosque they'd be screeching a different tune

 

[Blaster]

Free speech is one thing but there is also speech that pushes people toward violence.

 

[Scoutster]

Drop the hammer

 

[hjmick]

Seems as if it should be a hate crime. They admitted that they had chosen the church because of religion, though the graffiti was anti-Israel in nature, so that has me somewhat confused.


I see the guy mentioned in the video was found guilty of criminal mischief but the jury rejected the hate crime aspect...

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article312018949.html

 

[hjmick]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.

Not South Carolina:

https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article307914455.html

 

[hjmick]

Now I am less confused:

Prosecutors added a hate-crime enhancement to the charges, arguing that Alam and his co-defendants targeted Uncommon Church for flying an Israeli flag on its campus.

 

[Crepitus]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.



Recapping, the defendants are allegedly caught on video and do not deny that they spray painted graffiti on the wall of a privately owned building. The graffiti included attacks on a particular religion and profanity.

They could have been charged with misdemeanor vandalism of private property. They prosecutor has decided that they will be charged with a felony hate crime.

Where do you fall on this issue?

Link to the case instead of a video?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Link to the case instead of a video?

Right here:

Let Me Google That

For all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question than to google it for themselves.

letmegooglethat.com

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.



Recapping, the defendants are allegedly caught on video and do not deny that they spray painted graffiti on the wall of a privately owned building. The graffiti included attacks on a particular religion and profanity.

They could have been charged with misdemeanor vandalism of private property. They prosecutor has decided that they will be charged with a felony hate crime.

Where do you fall on this issue?

.

Anyone who uses graffiti needs to be slapped down, especially racially or religiously based graffiti.

Period.

.

 

[Scoutster]

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.



Recapping, the defendants are allegedly caught on video and do not deny that they spray painted graffiti on the wall of a privately owned building. The graffiti included attacks on a particular religion and profanity.

They could have been charged with misdemeanor vandalism of private property. They prosecutor has decided that they will be charged with a felony hate crime.

Where do you fall on this issue?

Impossible to decide when the actual evidence is not available, I have no idea what they drew or wrote.

 

[MisterBeale]

Crime is crime.

It is all motivated by degeneracy.


Letting the STATE bump up charges will lead to the left defining criminals as hateful when they are in power, and the right doing the same when they are in power.

I remember when the left was in power they wanted to indict anyone that burned a pride flag or left tire marks on rainbow crosswalks as. . "hate crimes."

Just as Hate Crimes should not be an offense on the book, nor should the concept of "hate speech," be taught in America.

We all know there are bigots, but the state should not be in the business of convicting a person on this or that bigotry, depending on who is in power.

Hate crimes Archives

reason.com

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I’m surprised they didn’t use explosive graffiti.

 

[westwall]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.



Recapping, the defendants are allegedly caught on video and do not deny that they spray painted graffiti on the wall of a privately owned building. The graffiti included attacks on a particular religion and profanity.

They could have been charged with misdemeanor vandalism of private property. They prosecutor has decided that they will be charged with a felony hate crime.

Where do you fall on this issue?

What's good for the goose....

 

[eagle7-31]

Texas has a Hate Crimes Law, as do all fifty states.



Recapping, the defendants are allegedly caught on video and do not deny that they spray painted graffiti on the wall of a privately owned building. The graffiti included attacks on a particular religion and profanity.

They could have been charged with misdemeanor vandalism of private property. They prosecutor has decided that they will be charged with a felony hate crime.

Where do you fall on this issue?

I never believed in so called 'hate crimes' crime is a physical act, hate is a motive certainly but not a actual crime.

 

[westwall]

I never believed in so called 'hate crimes' crime is a physical act, hate is a motive certainly but not a actual crime.

The political class made it one to use against their enemies. So now we use it against them.