i tell you what if i see someone hang a noose from a tree i would feel that my life is in danger and i would take action on it weather it be beating someone up or calling the police the person(s) who hung the noose would be going to jail. a noose being hung from a tree is just as bad as the kkk burning a cross. someone is going to get hurt
2007-09-28 09:59:26 · 22 answers · asked by mnbaldguy67 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Aren’t hate crimes going to strip away more freedom from us Americans?
2007-09-28 10:01:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, it's not a crime at all. Lots of people have been hung from a noose, just read about the old west and you will understand. What group is targeted with a noose? Cattle rustlers or horse thieves? Murderers? Those are typically the people who have been hung in the past.
"would feel that my life is in danger and i would take action on it weather it be beating someone" - what you are saying is that you would indeed commit a hate crime (beating on someone of another race because they are that color - after all, you don't honestly know who did it do you?) in order to retaliate against those whom you perceive to have committed a crime. That only makes things worse.
2007-09-28 10:53:23 · answer #2 · answered by Lisbeth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know many police departments that document two types of cases related to this question. The first documentation is of a 'hate crime' in which the statute for that particular behavior has been violated. This usually consists of some a act of violence or property damage against specified groups. This is a clear criminal violation. The second documentation is of a 'hate motivated incident'. This is documenting an act toward a specified group that, in and of itself, does not include any statutorily criminal conduct. It is documented to memorialize the incident in the event these issues escalate. The reports can then be used, in their totality (meaning multiple reports put together) to prosecute someone who commits a 'hate crime'.
It wouldn't be a hate crime to simply hang a noose from a tree for everyone to see. It would be easy to assume why it is there. It would be hard to argue that it has only been used to hang a certain race or religion.
As far a convictions in court, its easiest to visualize it this way. On one side of a river is what happened, what we know it means, and who did it. On the other side is what can be legally proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt. The information has to be solid enough to bridge the gap from what we know to prosecution. It you can't build that bridge, in court, you can't prosecute it.
Just seeing a noose and then violently reacting is the type of activity that perpetuates the ignorance of the first act. Ignorance breeds ignorance. Go ahead and "take action on it", you will just become part of the problem.
2007-09-28 10:17:10 · answer #3 · answered by wykedguy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well Sh*t! Now because a noose alone is classified as a hate crime, there are going to be NO decorations on my pine tree for Halloween.
Give me a break. It's a hate crime is I say, "Hey black guy! This is for you!" or "you better get away from here white girl! Or you will be hanging from my noose."
And beating someone up because you see a noose is REALLY mature, you know.
A noose and cross burning, flag burning and so forth, are TOTALLY different from a single noose hanging from a tree.
I use to make a fake one for Halloween and put one of those animatronic ghouls in it. Am I committing a hate crime against electrical monsters? Damn, I'm going to jail now and this poster of this question is going to beat me up!
2007-09-28 10:08:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It differs from place to place. You are freely allowed to display a swastika. However, displaying one on a church is a hate crime.
Don't beat someone up over hanging a noose. Two wrongs never made a right. Just tell the media, Sharpton and Jackson will be on their way in a minute.
2007-09-28 10:10:11 · answer #5 · answered by Pfo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think the point argued by the ongoing case is that the actual act of hanging a noose wasn't a 'physical act' of violence on or toward a specific person. Even though personally I think it's very hateful.
2007-09-28 10:04:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
u.s. is a democracy and that's a alluring ingredient. even nevertheless, it rather is unlucky whilst human beings blind to the regulation have faith they understand each and every of the solutions. putting a noose in a tree isn't a particular regulation. even nevertheless, it rather is on the discretion of the officers to work out it as a hate crime, a danger or perhaps in basic terms inciting violence. thinking the situations, it became certainly a criminal act. regrettably, it became no longer dealt with as such. Had it been dealt with as such, the diverse fights and the racial tensions on the college would have been prevented.
2016-12-28 06:26:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hate crime against who? The tree?
2007-09-28 18:58:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because without indications of who the noose is meant for, it is meaningless as far as the law is concerned.
2007-09-29 00:46:56 · answer #9 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Its only a hate crime if you have someone hanging from it....or write slanderous things above the noose
2007-09-28 10:01:47 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle H 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't know if it should be more heavily prosecuted for the "hate" aspects, but a noose is a deadly weapon. If you found a large knife stuck into your front door one morning, would you consider it a threat on your life, or an acceptable expression of free speech?
2007-09-28 10:05:34 · answer #11 · answered by Beardog 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋