Some news panelists are rushing to the defense of the four black people in Chicago who kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled white man — saying the savage attack was not, in fact, a hate crime and that Donald Trump is ultimately to blame.
NBC News correspondent Ron Mott and CNN political commentator Symone Sanders have both gone on the air and claimed that they believe the suspects were simply acting out of stupidity, rather than racism.
“You look at it on the surface, you think kids can make some really poor decisions from time to time,” Mott said Thursday during an interview with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin. “They made so many errors, if they were truly trying to be criminal, to obviously broadcast your crime is not a smart thing to do.”
Speaking during a panel discussing on Wednesday night, Sanders argued that the suspects’ actions were the result of a hate-filled election season — and that the media should be blaming President-elect Trump for stirring up emotions of anger and hostility in people across the country.
“I just want to remind folks that we cannot sit here and ignore that — at least for the last year on very public display — the worst parts of America have been brought from the fringe into the mainstream,” the former Bernie Sanders spokesman explained. “That affects people on both sides. We’ve talked about white nationalists and white supremacists and the KKK, but there also, when this inflammatory rhetoric is out there, when someone is repeatedly telling you that your community is the worst of the worst, it brings out the worst of the worst in people.”
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10 comments:
So if I beat the hell out of eitherof these commutators I can just blame Trump made me do it and it would be ok
Ignorance is bliss......Isn't it all you liberels out there?
Most of the world believes it is a hate crime.
It's time to for the black community to accept the truth.
It's a commin folks , just like Trump did . We are tired of this crap .
First of all they are NOT KIDS. It is a hate crime which is a felony whether they are black, white or purple. I would recommend 30 years. They should never be loose to do this again. The victims "friend" lured him to his house. This obviously shows predestination. Just plain evil.
Hate is an emotion.
Nobody knows a person's heart.
Only God can judge our hearts.
What these 4 people did was a crime against another person.
They caused harm.
Under Common Law, they are criminals - if convicted, meaning if they actually did what they are accused of doing.
Common Law is man's law.
It is simple and it is Constitutional.
I would love to see their prior arrests and convictions.
Hate crime or not--those idiots are animals. They have no place in our society. Rehabilitation is not possible; and is a waste of time and our money. Elimination would be best.
Then certainly Don Lemon of CNN would agree that what Dylan Roof did was also not a hate crime??
ABC news site still has it reported as " alleged" crime. Uh, didn't they see the video? Don't need to allege anything.
If it was blue on black, I don't think they would use "alleged". Just saying.
These news anchors will pay no price and they need to.
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