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She knew the guy was gay. Read the article for crying out loud. Thus the "hate crime" charge. To clarify: If you know someone is gay, assault them BECAUSE they are gay, that's a hate crime. At least in that state.
How do you know she attacked him because he's gay? Maybe they got into an argument, she beat him, and insulted him by calling him a f--. That doesn't mean a 70-year-old woman beat him because he is homosexual.
She needs to be charged with assault, as was aforementioned.
If she was screaming slurs then it's not just assault it's a hate crime right? I think political correctness is garbage but the law is the law.
What can you call a homosexual without it being a hate crime? We need to know the rules. I supposed it matters how she was using her cane on him that determines "hate" or "love".
kick out the son. let him live his own life how he wants, dont let him choose how u will live in your own home. the son caused this. no respect for his family.
"Sentence enhancements" That has politics written all over it.
Oh, the possibilities.
Our criminal justice system has many such sentence enhancement laws that punish crimes more harshly based on certain criteria: Repeat offender sentence enhancement laws, habitual offender sentence enhancement laws, laws that enhance sentences based on the age of the victim (raping a kid vs raping an adult), sentence enhancement laws based on where a crime is committed (selling drugs within X feet of a school), sentence enhancement laws for when a weapon is present during the commission of a crime (robbing somebody at gunpoint rather that just robbing without possessing a weapon).
The biggest sentence enhancement laws deal with intent, or the motivations crimes are committed. Worse, more sinister intents are punished more harshly. Bias motivated sentence enhancement laws fall under this category. Other examples are laws that distinguish the degrees of homicide (manslaughter, 2nd degree murder, 1st degree murder). Part of this is out of a realization that such intents usually go hand-in-hand with the likelihood that an offender can be rehabilitated.
A Black man calls a black man the N word and it's OK.
If I use those words all of a sudden it becomes a racist, sexist, hate crime remark.
lol oh the irony...
ignorance of the law or even in basic common sense is no excuse...
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I supposed it matters how she was using her cane on him that determines "hate" or "love".
