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In reply to the discussion: Students charged with hate crime after pork is tossed into a Jewish fraternity on Rosh Hashana [View all]LudwigPastorius
(13,496 posts)22. This fits the legal definition of a hate crime if he was not invited into the frat house.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/485.05
A prosecutor would have to prove that he entered unbidden and that his motivation was because they were Jewish.
Don't know about the first part, but the second part seems pretty evident.
A prosecutor would have to prove that he entered unbidden and that his motivation was because they were Jewish.
Don't know about the first part, but the second part seems pretty evident.
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Students charged with hate crime after pork is tossed into a Jewish fraternity on Rosh Hashana [View all]
Omaha Steve
Wednesday
OP
No slap on the wrists for them..real punishment..this is unacceptable behavior
Deuxcents
Wednesday
#2
Obviously this is hateful, but I'd hazard a guess it'll be pled down, without the hate crime part
AZJonnie
Wednesday
#7
Charging this as a hate crime seems en par with charging bigoted tweets over religion the same way.
SSJVegeta
Wednesday
#9
Again, in no way downplaying how shitty this was, the people need to be firmly punished
AZJonnie
Thursday
#42
This fits the legal definition of a hate crime if he was not invited into the frat house.
LudwigPastorius
Wednesday
#22
if they had smeared the blood into swastikas - would you're answer remain the same?
stopdiggin
Thursday
#24
They should be jailed until they grow up. That stunt is so incredibly stupid.
Srkdqltr
Wednesday
#13
As an alum of Sigma Alpha Mu (another Jewish fraternity), I am not shocked but completed sickened
AZLD4Candidate
Wednesday
#21