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Originally Posted by The Unfan
Because you're getting extra sentencing based on the thought that caused you to commit the crime as opposed to the crime itself.
Just to make it clear.
Running someone over on accident: Manslaughter
Running someone over to collect insurance: Murder
Running someone over because of their skin color: Murder + Hate Crime sentence
Why is the last scenario deserving of more punishment exactly?
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Pshhhhhhhhh touche'.
But does a jury have to prove that the crime was a hate crime? Because if I shoot a black guy, me being a white guy, and the black guy happened to be breaking into my house... would there be a penalty for me protecting my life and property by virtue of the perpetrator's skin color?
Now say if that really was the case and I shot a black man who broke into my house and I felt my life was in danger, and fatally shot him, would racial equality be a factor at all?
Would I be ridiculed because I perceived a black man to be more threatening than a white man? Would it turn the case?
Would someone sympathize with him instead of me, based on my decision?