Do we really need federal time/money/energy spent on reindicting a guy who's definitely going to jail forever anyway? http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/22/425291216/charleston-shooting-suspect-roof-to-be-indicted-on-federal-hate-crime-charges?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150722&utm_campaign=alert&utm_term=breakingnews …
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@emptywheel But... It's not being charged as terrorism. -
@normative Yup. And I agree hate crime is stupid. But treating black terrorist victims different is even stupider, for many reasons. -
@emptywheel OK, well, can we break the trend with the next high profile case involving white victims, then argue for consistency with that? -
@normative You're confident that will end up eliminating all laws that treat Muslims but not non-Muslim as "intl" terrorists then? Superb! -
@emptywheel No. I'd like to see fewer redundant federal prosecutions, whether or not it solves that problem. -
@normative Fair. I think that problem is more urgent, but I definitely get where you (and@bmaz, who agrees with you) are coming from. -
@emptywheel@bmaz It may well be more urgent, but I doubt federalizing more murders helps significantly. -
@normative Not as a hate crime, bc that doesn't come w/policing, But as a terrorist crime it would.@bmaz
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