1. This might be a good time to remember that police and prosecutors are usually interested in very narrow factual questions.
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2. When police/prosecutors look for a motive, they aren't asking for ultimate psychological truths but rather what is provable in a court.
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3. In the case of the Chapel Hill killings, for police purposes, "parking dispute" is enough motive to connect necessary dots.
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4. But worth remembering that prosecutor's analysis of crime is only one possible approach.
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5. Analytically, worth remembering that a crime rarely has a simple cause, but rather several intersecting causes.
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6. In Chapel Hill case, investigation is ongoing but we already see from reports outlines of several causes working together.
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7. You alleged killer with pre-existing history of hostility to victims plus parking dispute plus gun culture plus who knows what else.
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8. Was alleged killer's pre-existing hostility based on Islamophobia? I would not surprise me at all if it were. Let's see what comes out.
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9. If Charles Foster Kane embezzled money, cops would look at account books & not for "Rosebud". Their focus is on narrow motives/actions
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10. But narrow focus of police/prosecutors is not something the rest of us have to share. We can think about broader patterns & causes.
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