goferking (he/him)Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime
Wow. Made it 42 years and thought “I need to murder a child”
halcyoncmdrTo be fair, it was a toddler.
/s in case that wasn’t obvious.
“Alleged” is what the DA has charged.
“Possible” is what charges the DA might add.
A legal analysis by a reporter, who is not a lawyer much less a prosecutor, would not add much.
“Possible” is what the DA might add to the charges.
If the DA hasn’t added that already based on even this limited public information, I question their ability to do their damned job. There’s nothing “possible” about this being racially motivated, which clearly makes it a hate crime. The initial charges should have been for a hate crime and adjusted to remove that if necessary.
If the DA hasn’t added that already based on even this limited public information
The DA also has access to non-public information, including potential exculpatory information.
Can’t imagine what sort of exculpatory evidence there could be for someone asking where someone is from, then trying to drown their child, and beating them with their hijab. There is a pretty damned cut and dry racial motive there. Unless the white woman was secretly Muslim somehow it seems pretty straightforward.
Or… the simplest explanation is that it’s a smaller suburb of Dallas-Ft Worth where the largest ethnic group by far is white, in a district that went 62.2% Republican in the 2022 election, and the government officials don’t want to publicly denounce racism like that because that’s what the citizens in that area expect of their government.
Can’t imagine what sort of exculpatory evidence there could be
Not being able to imagine something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
the simplest explanation is that it’s a smaller suburb of Dallas-Ft Worth
Suburbs don’t prosecute, the county DA does. And this county voted for Biden in 2020.
Suburbs don’t prosecute, the county DA does. And this county voted for Biden in 2020.
You’re right, and Presidential elections don’t do a good job of showing anything about local matters. Gotta look at the local elections. Since you brought it up…
In the 2022 general election the County Clerk, Criminal District Attorney, Constable, District Clerk, and County Judge elected were all Republican. In fact, the only race not won by a Republican was one of 2 open County Commissioner seats, which a Dem barely won with 51.5% of the vote.
Notice that Criminal District Attorney, Phil Sorrells ®, was just elected in 2022. Prior to that, he was a Judge for Tarrant County Criminal Court Number 10 for 25 years. I’d be willing to bet if someone went back through his criminal sentencing over those 25 years it would show certain, shall we say, biases in those sentences, they almost always do. Sometimes that quack does come from a duck after all.
And I’d be willing to bet that Tarrant County charged as many hate crimes in 2023 as in previous years.
I never said they weren’t capable. I’m just saying that this prosecutor seems to be choosing to not prosecute something seemingly obvious, which just makes them look incompetent. If they want to appear that way to the public, that’s their choice.
Nothing prevents them from saying that they aren’t going to prosecute it as a hate crime due to exculpatory evidence, instead they seem to be intentionally leaving it in a grey area. Especially since this apparently happened a month ago according to the article. Plenty of time to figure out something so core to the issue. It just makes them look complicit in allowing hate crimes when the public evidence is so glaringly obvious for it.
Nothing prevents them from saying that they aren’t going to prosecute it as a hate crime
The thing that prevents them from saying that they aren’t going to prosecute it is that they are still considering prosecuting it.
I realize the public demands that officials keep up with the 24 hour news cycle, but personally I don’t object when prosecutors, of all people, think a little about what they are going to do.