Should the Jena 6 be charged with hate crimes in addition to assault and battery?
Personally, I believe so since the act (six young black men beating up a single young white man) was clearly along race lines in a racially charged situation (unrest among the area because of the nooses hung at the school).
Al Sharpton wants it to be a fair case, and I agree with him for once. It's only fair for the Jena 6 to be charged with hate crimes, since more-than-likely if six white men beat up a black man they'd be charged with a hate crime too.
2007-09-20 14:02:36 · 5 answers · asked by theREALtruth.com 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
To TuretzSR:
So...if six white men beat up a black man, it qualifies as a hate crime. But if six black men beat up a white man, it doesn't qualify as a hate crime?
2007-09-20 14:33:47 · update #1
To togood2betrue
Okay...let me see if I understand this. A black student goes to the administration and asks if black kids can sit under the tree. Administration approves, and they sit. Later, three nooses are hung.
The nooses are removed and the perpetrators suspended from school. This created a racially tense environment where the blacks felt preyed upon by the whites.
Later, a portion of the school was burnt down and then six black students ganged up on a white student, beating him until he was unconscious and had to go to an ER.
I think I got the gist of the case, thanks for asking. Oh...and I read a lot. I have close to a thousand actual books in my possession across a range of topics. Thanks for the personal attack.
2007-09-20 14:36:41 · update #2
To STEVEN F
I agree that hate crimes are a pretty ridiculous group of crimes to add to our justice system. But since they are a group of crimes and technically can be applied to any crime meeting their guidelines, they should be applied to any crime that meets the requirements. Not just at the discretion of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, or the NAACP.
2007-09-20 14:46:52 · update #3
Hate crimes go both ways - not just what white folks do to black folks. If their actions were based on race then yes. If their actions were not based on race then no.
2007-09-20 14:10:47 · answer #1 · answered by Boots 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would say "no." Two wrongs do not (necessarily) make a right. Just because "white" people might be charged with a hate crime if the race situation had been reversed is not, in my mind, sufficient to justify charging the Jena 6 with hate crimes.
I don't believe in derivative crimes. If the prosecutor believes he can get them convicted of a crime of hate (murder, assault and battery, etc), he should charge them with that crime, not with an invented charge of "Hate Crime."
2007-09-20 14:18:09 · answer #2 · answered by TuretzSR 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO ONE should EVER be charged with 'hate crimes'. The ACTION should be punished regardless of the motivation. It is NEVER possible to prove the motivation anyway.
2007-09-20 14:40:34 · answer #3 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you don't have the whole story and don't know the law.
Go buy Blacks Law Dictionary and get some insight.
have you ever read any books from cover to cover besdies a comic book?
2007-09-20 14:18:24 · answer #4 · answered by twogood2betrue4you 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
I know no matter how I answer this I will be ridiculed.
2007-09-20 15:15:24 · answer #5 · answered by Glinda W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋