Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
The motive was he cut you off in traffic. It's not a race-motivated lynching.
Yeah but that is not how this always plays out. If a attention seeking prosecutor could allege that I am a racist (while despicable not illegal) then he can get his/her face in the news for going after hate crimes. "The traffic incident set this in motion but the victim wouldn't be dead if VC wasn't a KKK member." This type of law violates free speech b/c you are sentencing people based on their thoughts and beliefs. It shouldn't matter if someone is a bigot, assault and murder are enough in their own right to prosecute.