Baltimore 9 Will Not Be Charged With Hate Crime
Remember the Sarah Kreager Baltimore bus beating story we told you about? The DA’s office is done filing charges and none of them include hate crime, contrary to what police initially said.
Interviews with the victim and some of the young suspects indicate that racial slurs might have been used during the fight, but that the fracas might have started over a fight for a seat.
Wasn’t the whole fucking civil rights movement started over a fight for a bus seat?
Prosecutors in Baltimore have decided not to charge the nine middle school students accused in the beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus with a hate crime as a judge postponed their trial yesterday until Jan. 31.
Judge Edward R.K. Hargadon, the head of the city’s juvenile judges, granted a request from the state to postpone a Jan. 4 trial date despite objections from the juveniles’ attorneys. A hearing on the teenagers’ home-detention status will take place Jan. 4.
In court yesterday, Assistant State’s Attorney Janet S. Hankin requested the addition of two charges: malicious destruction and disorderly conduct. The teens had previously been charged with aggravated assault and destruction of property.
Defense attorneys said they had not been informed of the additional charges, which will be dealt with at the Jan. 4 hearing.
The Maryland Transit Administration Police Force, which has jurisdiction on buses, had said early in the investigation that it was reviewing the case as a possible racially motivated incident. All nine suspects are black, and the victim is white.
But the charges listed at yesterday’s juvenile hearing did not include hate crimes.
Margaret T. Burns, a spokeswoman for the city state’s attorney’s office, would say only that the charging process is complete, and that no more charges are expected to be filed. She would not elaborate, noting confidentiality laws surrounding juvenile criminal cases.
Prosecutors said that to pursue a hate-crime violation, they would have to prove intent, that the attack was “because of another’s race, color, religious beliefs or national origin.” Interviews with the victim and some of the young suspects indicate that racial slurs might have been used during the fight, but that the fracas might have started over a fight for a seat.
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I see that the double-standards of the Peoples Repubic of Maryland remains the defacto injustice of their pathetic justice system. Fook you MD. When AQ gets the bomb I hope they hit you first.
I lived in MD for many years. I grew up there. I watched the libs completely fook up my county and home town. I got no respect for the stupidity that is the government and justice system of that sorry ass state.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:23 pmFrickin’ ridiculous . . . but I am not surprised . . .
December 29th, 2007 at 9:07 pmcan’t say what I’m really thinking.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:29 pmWell of course there wern’t any hate crimes filed…don’t any of you ever watch the media? Hate crimes can ONLY be commited BY white people, not ON them…I mean come on…holding everybody up to the same standard? That’s just silliness….
December 30th, 2007 at 12:15 amDan (The Infidel,
The only way to take back the country is not via the presidency or congress but at the local level. The local governments always give sanction to the higher ones.
December 30th, 2007 at 6:04 amI live in Maryland, just a short drive from Baltimore and this stuff… this stuff makes me so very glad I won’t have to deal with this state in a short while.
I wish I could say that this is a shock, but it isn’t. Oh well, nothing we can really do about it that won’t flare up the proverbial shitstorm further.
December 30th, 2007 at 6:46 amWhat makes anyone believe that those dick heads would have been charged with a “hate crime”? Those poo boys was just kickin, chillin and spendin some time with their dogs when some hoe (who happened not to have nappy hair and to be of the caucasian race) disrespected them by wanting to sit on a seat next to dem..
December 30th, 2007 at 6:53 amOh, so when Don Imus said nappy headed hoes he wasn’t being hateful because he didn’t intentionally plan on saying that off the cuff remark. Thanks for clearing that up. It’s also nice to have you back Mel, I realize you were just drunk and had you really been a racist you would have planned out the whole event. Gotcha. Or maybe there is such a thing as a second degree hate crime, i.e. something bad happens even though nothing was planned. It’s all B.S. anyways. People are prejudiced about something and to make prejudice about race and religion only is naive, what about looks? How many people have been shunned and shut out for what they wear or what car they drive? Grow a fucking spine and beat the fuck out of anybody that fucks with you.
December 30th, 2007 at 9:22 amProsecutors said that to pursue a hate-crime violation, they would have to prove intent, that the attack was “because of another’s race, color, religious beliefs or national origin.”
Truth be known, the reason for the “fracas” was exactly the victim’s race. Our judicial system has become an ass and a politically correct haven for cowards. And this is exactly why I am against “hate crime” legislation.
Not only will the system administer the legislation unfairly, I guarantee you eventually the law will be abused - whether in public, private or worship.
December 30th, 2007 at 9:24 am