Attorney General
Marchers Call for More Hate-Crime Prosecutions
Posted Nov 16, 2007 12:53 PM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Thousands of marchers circled the Justice Department’s headquarters today to urge the federal government to prosecute hate crimes more vigorously.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III led the protest, the Washington Post reports. Sharpton told the newspaper last week that march organizers were dismayed that no action was being taken in response to “the increased amount of hate crimes and hate signs” such as swastikas and hanging nooses.
The Justice Department charged only 22 people with hate crimes last year, the lowest figure in 10 years, USA Today reported last week. A department spokesman said the decline is consistent with an overall decrease in hate crime reports.
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J.D.
Nov 16, 2007 5:52 PM CST
That’s the P.C. version of events. IN REALITY, hundreds of apparently jobless people took to the streets demanding that violent thugs be allowed to go free. That’s it. There was more discussion of “hate crimes” in the media than at the protest. The protesters carried “Free the Jenna 6!” signs. They held signs supporting the socialist group ANSWER.
Most troubling, they held signs depicting Megan Williams, the black women held against her will and abused for a week by six whites in West Virginia a few months ago. IGNORANTLY, they yelled that the six Jena blacks who beat a white person should be freed, but the six West Virginia whites who beat a black person should be jailed.
All twelve need to be thrown behind bars. Today’s march symbolized ignorant support for abusers.
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