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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
What am I fabricating? Did commander say that they were kids who make poor decisions when asked about the racism and Trump stuff?
You could see the uncomfortableness in their body language during the press conference. They clearly did not want to make this into a hate crime. They clearly were trying to downplay it. Duffin could have just shut up and said that it was being investigated.
He didn't. Instead he made a conscious choice to call them kids, to point out how young adults do stupid ####. How often does that happen, how often does the police force refer to the assailants as kids when 18-24 year olds are caught on camera committing a brutal crime? If it's frequent, you should be able to post some examples. I can honestly say I have never seen it until today, but I'd be willing to change my tune with examples.
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It happens fairly often, ironically in favour of white offenders quite often. There's an op ed piece from last year that talks about the different way we treat young white criminals vs young criminals of colour.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtm...-is-terrorism/
The Aurora shooter, as well as Brock turner were good examples.
Even then I think you're mischaracterising the use of kids as some consciousness and purposeful use of language, when he was sure to correct himself and call them adults.
The problem is when characterising a hate crime is you have to know the motivation, and "### white people," while a good clue, doesn't give you enough evidence. There's a good article about it:
http://http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05...fbi/index.html
As I said, we'll agree to disagree because I dont know how you're seeing it from the angle you are, when considering the whole story (police said kids, corrected themselves, said the act was horrible, charged them with 4 different crimes... but were somehow racist against whites and defending the criminals... don't get it at all).