I hate to bring it up because I don't like the race issues and I'm glad the press hasn't picked up on it but if the man had been black and the woman white.........Would it be charged as a hate crime? Let me just state my views on that. I don't believe there should such a thing as hate crimes. When you kill or attack someone you should be punished for what you did not why you did it. It's not easy to prove for sure that someone committed a crime but it even harder to prove why they did it. I don't think we should be in the mind reading business.
I think the double standard here in the charges and the press coverage shows what the hate crime bill was really for. A way to divide the country along racial lines. Now the worst crimes will be magnified by racial hatred.
I'm still glad that the race issue hasn't been discussed in the press.
TimB