• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “Authorities are not ruling out racist motives”

    But also…

    “Police previously received a complaint from the family that Booth had made an obscene gesture and told them to go back to where they came from and “speak English,””

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      6 months ago

      The standard on hate crimes can be really absurd in a lot of states, and some states don’t even have hate crime legislation, Utah only briefly consider haven’t hate crime laws after a black man attacked a Hispanic man with clear racial motive. They never realized it could be used against non white people, really changed their stance.