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TexasTowelie (21,443 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027386128
Donald Trump could face hate crime charges for encouraging his supporters to beat up black protester
...And now Southall says he’s considering pressing hate crime charges against both Donald Trump and the people who assaulted him....
TreasonousBastard (26,304 posts)
1. Seems like a stretch to call that a hate crime...and using the hate crime laws like that stinks of cheap political stuntery. Hate crimes are serious business and this could trivialize them. Tempting as it is to try to nail Trump with cheap shots, this probably won't go anywhere
So a guy, a known radical, gets into a meeting with the intent to cause a disturbance. Does so and is removed. Now he wants to file charges?
Who instigated the encounter? Yeah... not going anywhere.
Waiting For Everyman (7,857 posts)
2. Trump would beat that, as he should. First of all, the complainant was the provocateur. Second, all he said was to remove him, which is justified at his own event. Third, Trump can afford a lot of lawyers. BLM thinks it has special rights, that others don't have, and I doubt the court would uphold that. And frankly, the fact that this protester brought this up, tells me that BLM may be TRYING to PROVOKE somone into being subject to hate crime law -- such manipulation would not be legitimate in any way, shape, or form. The backlash on that becoming known would probably not be worth it.
And I agree 100% with post #1.
The new kid, dangin, brings up that Rosa Parks was a provoker. He gets slammed for comparing oranges to elephants.
dangin (139 posts)
11. One of my degrees is in history my emphasis was on us history 1945 to the present. I do not have the source for this, but my understandings of those events are that Ms. Parks was one of several African American women doing that daily, looking to create that situation. Which may make you think of that moment differently, if it was politically motivated. But she's still a heroine.
jwirr (35,188 posts)
23. Sounds like someone rewrote history again. Where did you go to college. There is a huge difference between demonstrating against some thing that is wrong in the first place and beating a protester because you do not like what he is saying. But it is not going to make any difference - money speaks. BTW I have a minor in history and a major in sociology. The first thing I learned in college was it is the professors viewpoint you are learning not necessarily the truth.
fasttense (16,636 posts)
16. So showing up at a campaign rally and
Shouting is being a provocateur? Or was it that he was the wrong skin color that was the provocation?
Trump is running for president not holding KKK rallies or white power church services, the man had every right to be at that campaign speech. The crowd had NO right to beat him up.
It was a hate crime. If the battered man had been white and shouted would the crowd have attacked? I seriously doubt it. If Trump had not encouraged the crowd would they have been so violent? Again I doubt it. The hate crime laws are merely laws and Not sacred runes to be tucked away and protected. They should be used as often as necessary.
If I were this battered man I would bring every law, every tool to prosecute the people who hit him and the man on stage who encouraged the beating. Bullies like that should not get away with their abuse.
Surya Gayatri (9,672 posts)
3. I just hope he's nominated as the GOP standard-bearer before he's indicted and tried.
Oh, that reminds me. How's Hillary doing?
TipTok (239 posts)
4. An assault on a black person by another ethnicity... even white...Does not automatically confer 'hate crime' status. Stunts from someone who wants to be noticed...
CBGLuthier (11,768 posts)
5. NO, but beating the shit out of a black man while calling him a n***** sure is one. And that is supposedly what happened. Trump won't be charged with shit but his goon squad should have already been arrested.
Yeah... that didn't happen.
Laxman (1,602 posts)
9. And Trump Can Spend His Time In Jail....having a ghost writer pen a book he can call My Struggle! Trump's performance art, better known as his campaign, will continue to roll on until Trump tires of it. Meanwhile the rubes eat it up and he'll do and say whatever it takes to keep them enthralled. It's like watching Vince McMahon run for president and just as dignified as any WWF Wrestlemania production-and Trump's "fans" believe it's real. God only knows what marketing plan he has for after all of this over. His ego is like the carnivorous plant Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. It keeps yelling "feed me!"
Yes yes... we get it. You retards think trump is Hitler.
