Liberals Say #BLMkidnapping is Not a Hate Crime

What liberals are saying this? I know Chicago police didn't claim it as a hate crime until they had investigated and delivered to the prosecuters office, who, in turn, filed charges that included hate crime. The only person I've heard say anything in defense of the charged is one girls grandmother. There are no large groups of BLM marching demanding their release. So who are these liberal voices?

In their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jVWdtI6_wg

Congratulations, you have allowed yourself to be trolled and fell for it hook, line, and sinker. These clowns aren't liberals: they're just race baiters thinking that they can turn this into a race war and didn't realize they were fools. Even Al Sharpton has stayed quiet on this one, and you know if they had any influence he'd be out there drumming up support. Jesse Jackson has already denounced the perps, and even the grandmother of the two women involved has said nothing of value in their defense. She's eben offered an apology to the victim and his family.

Yes, I watched the video as far as I could stomach it. Everybody has their opinions, and these two have voiced opinions Tjat are contrary to the facts. Ask your liberal friends what they think of this. I think you'll find they're closer to your opinion than you realize. This may be the closest thing we've had to unite this country since 9-11 or the Kennedy assassinations.

Thank God the prosecutor's office put the hate crime charge in there, even though the victim did not die. That wasn't the case in Knoxville, Tennessee a decade ago, where the couple were raped, tortured, and viciously murdered. But then, maybe they didn't have a tape of it. The victims were white, the convicted are black.

Why would these two nutcases say it wasn't a hate crime? Because the victim lived? Because he was a Trump supporter? Like I said, I don't think you'll find a mainstream liberal out there that supports these opinions.

i'm thankful most people liberal or conservative that i have talked to do view this as a hate crime. it would be hard to justify anything these people did. symone sanders tried to justify it while saying she wasn't trying to. i have read she has since changed her mind but i didn't get to read the whole thing so i don't know for sure.

if she was doing it to race bait or any other motive you can think of, the one thing that comes out of this is that it reflects badly on bernie sanders since symone sanders was his press secretary.

Yes it does reflect poorly. It could even be a career killer for her.

At the time of the broadcast, I don't think anyone had any real understanding of it. All I could think at the time was don't be so damn PC and ignore the possibility of them being charged with a hate crime. It was 10 years ago that five blacks kidnapped a young white couple, then proceeded to torture and rape them. While at least two were sentenced to execution, the act of charging them with a haye crime never came up, much less, initiated. The crime, maybe not as famous as the Manson murders, was as heinous.

I'm thankful that the victim survived, but he'll need a lot of extra help from here out. A gofundme page has already collected over $100K to help him with that.

As for the accused: that's up to the courts, and should they determine guilty, the strongest discipline be placed on them.

I'm sorry if I sound like a "wait and see" guy, but I've been stung by knee jerk reactions.

nothing wrong with a wait and see approach. it's too bad that is becoming more rare. it seems more and more people want to fight over who gets to tie the rope for the lynching when things like this happen. nobody is willing to let evidence inform their decisions.

truth is i don't think that hate crimes should exist as a charge in any case because it suggests that we know exactly what is happening in a person's mind during a crime. not to mention that what is a hate crime now will be different in 5 years because it's based on what is politically correct at the time of the crime. there's something that seems a bit off with a law that has a very fluid definition. to me "i know it when i see it" just don't cut it.

that said since we have hate crimes as a charge this case seems to meet all the definitions of a hate crime based on the video. if other evidence contradicts the video and somehow proves that they really didn't do it (i don't even know how that could be done) i hope justice is done for everyone

this is where i feel the victim could be made a victim again. i have known people that made gofundme pages and they made a bit of money but the money never went where they said it was going. i don't think i'm the only person aware of that kind of stuff. so i won't be giving money to help because of a handful people that have made all gofundme pages untrustworthy. i don't feel real bad cause i don't think they will miss the three dollars i could give.

I'm old enough to remember the James Byrd case in Texas back in 98. That is what brought about the hate crime laws. Pretty grisley, even by Texas standards.

I really don't have a problem with the hate crime laws in situations like this. What bothers me is that the Constitution protects the perpetrators of heinous crimes. While the torture this group is charged with is survivable, I don't think they would have done it if they knew that's what they'd get. Likewise, some of the perps in the other crimes, I believe, would have had the same deaths brought onbthem as their victims. Lethal injection compared to being drug behind a pick up along a dirt road until you're decapitated? Sounds like a fair punishment to me.

What happened to James Byrd is evil beyond compare. The murderers should have been executed by now, but have not. The delay of the death penalty is another conversation. Also, the death of Emmett Till is a sign of pure evil; the stuff of nightmares. Now that roles are reversed, liberals try to not see the obvious. Now some of them are eating crow as more facts come forward, but their first reactions are telling.

yes, because liberals are hypocritical racist morons - by definition