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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
If you aren't going to offer an explanation as to why the police chose the words they did, then I think you need to concede it was a stupid choice by the cops. All you need to do is see how the right-wing media is eating up.
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Firstly, I've said multiple times that I understand your reaction based on your interpretation of what the police said. Again, we'll agree to disagree because I think you're given the least charitable interpretation and purposely distorting it to further your bias. Placating the alt-right is, honestly, not a very compelling argument as to why someone should act or speak differently. There isn't a reason they're the ones still beating this drum. That's not admirable company to keep.
As per your request for an explanation, straight from the source:
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Police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson noted, however, that the lack of a classification for the “deplorable acts” committed in the video was to allow the investigation to be “based on facts and not emotion.”
“There was never a question whether or not this incident qualified to be investigated as a hate crime. But as I said yesterday, we needed to base, the investigation based on facts and not emotion,” he said before announcing the charges against the four suspects.
“Taking the totality of the circumstances… we sought hate crime charges,” Duffin noted, adding that the investigators didn’t differentiate between the victim’s “diminished mental capabilities” and the racial aspects of the crime.
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http://www.rt.com/document/586ecc68c361885a408b4622/amp