Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime

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Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime - SDF Chatter

drown 3 year old … child

That’s just being fucking demonic for the public

Palestinian Muslim

With current events, yes its a hate crime

I mean shouldn’t it be a hate crime regardless of current events?

But yes.

A hate crime is when the crime intentionally targets a specific demographic.
This is true. Hopefully it doesn’t negatively affect the case against this person. Specifying it as a hate crime means that will need to be proved in the court. Or maybe I’m not understanding the law as well as LegalEagle makes me think.
Controversial opinion: attempted murder is a serious deal regardless of whether or not it’s a hate crime.
No doubt about that, and I’m probably wrong about having to prove it was a hate crime. I just wouldn’t want that aspect to allow for this person to “get away”with it because it wasn’t “racially motivated”