I love how the media airs the first story heard…. Such pure ignorance out of your mouths and foolish.

There are just far too many cowardly vermin running the streets these days. What are the Police doing? Writing tickets for seat belts and cell phones!!! Yeah….I see the reason for those priorities!!! (he said with the most demeaning sarcasm dripping from the words)

Care to enlighten us then, Erica? You seem to know something about the occurrence?

3 cowards. If they were solo I’m betting this would of not happened

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I grew up there and can honestly say I experienced racism most of my life. From racist comments, constant harassment from classmates, strangers, and neighbors, to property damage. I would never consider living there again or ever raise a family in a place so depressed with ignorance. I have nothing positive to say about the Marysville/Linda/Olivehurst area.

so the man and the woman were attacked because they were an interracial couple i’m assuming? how sad!

Yes I agree, if you know something you should just say it Erica. Let me add that more hate crimes occur than are reported.

WOW…Racist gangs members who pick on 72 year old men and women? How pathethic.

Go LINDA …………..We knew you had it in ya

You don’t know much about real life, huh?

What do you expect from a couple of wackos from Olivehurst. Just something about Olivehurst gives me the willy’. It’s not so much the crime in Olivehurst that bothers me, it just looks like everybody is inbred that lives there. Maybe it’s something in the water or a military experiment that went bad, but something wrong to those folks from Olivehurst.

ILL LOVE TO SEE U BEING ON THE NEWS, “ERICA GOT RAPED BY THREE BLACK MALES” WE’LL HOW THAT FEELS TO TALK OF THE DETAILS OR THE CRIME ITSELF. I’ DONT THINK THESE GUYS WENT AROUND CLEANING WINDSHIELDS & ESCORTING PEOPLE OUT OF CARS!!!

Maybe you know who these people are? let us in on the true story then if your so informed. When 3 Olivehurst meth heads attack a mixed race couple for no reason other than their own racist leanings then it seems to me they got it right.

The police can’t be every where all the time, where were YOU mr. concerned citizen? Why do people always think the police should be able to intervene in every crime being committed. Shows a lack of common sense.

Sorry to hear that Elisa, nobody should have to put up with that. I never experienced Racism until I joined the Army in 1966, then I got my Butt kicked for being friends with a couple Black soldiers. To this day I still can’t understand how people can be so intolerant and ignorant.

OK, where did you get the 72 year old information from…. it was not in the article? This is a prime example of people embellishing a story with there own false information to make it sound better.

hey yall i am from down south and i really didnt see any racist there i went to school with all color i mean i wouldnt think it would be in claifornia rite in my back door

The info about the 72 year old man, was in the video. The suspect on the loose was convicted of beating a 72 year old black man and served 6 years in prison for that crime.

i am from misssissippi and lousina now that is south were the hate crims from now days yes we do have inter racail couples in miss and la and yall no what i wasnt raised to see all of that my grandmother was african american and her best friend is white but california we have all kind of race but this what i am reading is a shame this still going on this america lets stop the volence and get a lone with one another amen

Wow, listen to you, All of you putting down a small town becuase a three idiots did a horrible crime, and yes, it is and was a horrible crime and they need to pay for that crime, but I grew up in Marysville and it was like living in Mayberry growing up. Everyone knew each other and were nice to each other, it is people that have come to the area since then. And, I might add, you people that are deriding Marysville, Linda and Olivehurst, well, you are prejuidice too, listen to you, do you know everyone that lives there? I bet most of you don’t even know one person there. There are bad people everywhere….probably you have a neighbor or a friend that is bad…too

He that is without sin can cast the first stone…

Talk bad about those idiots but not the towns, because not everyone in those cities did it, infact, I bet the victims live there too.

Lynn, you are right. There is racism in California. I live in the SF Bay Area and
while overt racism is usually not shown, I have always noticed that different
races don’t mingle around each other. Chinese hang around Chinese, Caucasian
people hang around Caucasian people, and Hispanic people hang around
Hispanic people. Maybe they feel more comfortable in their own race, but
how many times do you see a White person in an area that is mostly
Hispanic?? I have also been to the South, and it is way more ******* intergrated
than places in California. In Oklahoma, I saw white people and Black people
and Asian people hanging around together at the mall and having a great
time with each other. Isn’t that the way things are supposed to be??
I have a friend who is a professor at a college in West Virginia now, and
his sister, when she was in high school (went to the same high school as
me), dated this African American man. Now, he was Black and and she
was White. Guess what happened?? The African-American’s friends
ditched him, and my friend’s sister’s friends ditched her too – they stopped
being friends with her. My friend’s parents now live in Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina, and have never been more happier in their life…

Codi

i know one of the guys that were involved in this and he is nothing but sweet he has always been there for my family, i was soo shocked to hear what happend. by i do not believe he would of done what he did without resoning!!!

Codi, there is some truth to what you wrote. I grew up in the Mission District of S.F. and all through Elementary, Jr. High, and High school we all hung together at one time of the other. Black, white, Chinese, philippino, japanese, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Cuban. The one commonality most of us had is that we were poor. None of us had racism in our thoughts as children. Unfortunately it is a learned trait.

I was in Cabo two weeks ago and met a 64 year old white couple who were very nice. Rich told me his stories of having to fight with blacks growing up on Philly because that’s what they were taught by elders. When he went to Vietnam in ’66 the color line vanished because they had to count on each other to survive and he and fellow troops wept for their loses no matter what the color.

Mo

Taylor, I would love to hear the justification for this hate crime. Your being shocked tells me there is a lot you do not know about this person.

There are a lot of mean and judgemental people in California. I hate it here, I really do and I’m planning to move out as soon as I possibly can (I’m moving to the Carolinas and good riddance to this state, very soon). I’m not saying EVERYONE in California is mean and judgemental…I have met quite a few nice people actually and I will miss the friends I have here when I move, but seriously, the jerks seem to overnumber the nice people some days. I always thought liberals stood up for diversity and differences. But they are more judgemental than any Conservatives I have ever seen. Again, I have met some fair and unbiased Democrats, but a lot are very judgemental. I have met lots
of people who have visited California over the years and they have told
me that when the hippies were around in the 1970s, people embraced
diversity and differences and different races. But around the late 1980s,
things started to change. I have a friend in Idaho who is 42 who has high
functioning Autism (I have Autism too, by the way) who couldn’t even
swing on swings at Capitol Park in Sacramento without some idiot asking
him “Aren’t you a little too OLD to be swinging in that swing??” or “Why
are you wearing those overalls??”….couldn’t even leave him in peace.
I didn’t know there was an age requirement to enjoy swinging on the
swings!!

Codi

And how about this – I happen to have many hobbies – I collect
street maps (I have 1,200 street maps of places in California and a lot
of Deep South cities/towns), I also collect 45 rpm records from the 1950s
to the 1980s (I love oldies). I also happen to collect vintage children’s
T-strap shoes, English sandals (double buckle T-strap shoes) and
Mary Janes, most of them in my collection are from the 1970s to mid 1990s,
so very vintage, you wouldn’t even see children wearing these shoes
anymore. But do you know how many times I have been called a pedophile
because of that?? I’m not hurting anyone by collecting vintage children’s
dress shoes, hello?? I’ve never heard of a pedophile collecting children’s
shoes…UGH. Of course, most of the people who have called me a pedo
are mostly people in their late teens and 20s. Teens and 20s and 30s can
be very judgemental, I don’t know if it is a phase, I think it is, because I
never have problems with people over age 45+ or children. It’s always
people around age 20 or 25. This might sound strange, but NO ONE from
the South has ever called me anything like a pedo, and I have bought so
many things from the South and deal with them on a regular basis like
on EBay. I talk to realtors in the South. I talk to chambers of commerce,
I talk to stores, I talk to just ordinary people. It also really makes me steaming
angry that I get called a pedo because I really care about children a great
deal and I have done countless hours of work with preschoolers at one
of my local libraries, I entertain them and all that, I have a friend who is
a children’s librarian and I work with her for Storytime. I really care about
children, and yet I get treated like **** by others. For all I know, probably
those other people calling me hurtful names like that are probably
shouting that a 13 year old child, if he kills someone, should be put in prison
the rest of his life and that the child gets thrown in adult prison and hopefully they get raped by Bubba every day. AND THAT”S CALLED CARING ABOUT
CHILDREN?? Oh my God. Like they even care about children??

And yet we have laws protecting REAL child molesters? If you go to a
real convicted child molester’s home and throw rocks at his house or
if you call him a pedophile, you can get arrested for harrassing a
sex offender, and get put in state prison. But there are no laws
protecting law abiding, honest, caring, loving citizens like me. How
hilarious!! You can get more years in prison here in California for
stealing a piece of pizza than for killing a child!!

I am getting the heck out of this state as soon as possible. I’m moving to
somewhere in the Carolinas. I hope the rest of the United States kicks
California, Oregon and Washington out of the U.S. I could care less about
what happens to California anymore!!

Codi

I work with preschoolers every Thursday at Preschooler Storytime at one of
my local libraries. Do you know what joy I bring to 3-, 4-, and 5- year olds on
a weekly basis?? My children’s librarian friend reads them stories and we
do dances like the Chicken Dance, “Peanut, Peanut Butter And Jelly”, “Lucky
Ladybug” (a 1958 song by Billy and Lillie that I introduced to the kids), and
others. My librarian friend also likes oldies music, so at her suggestion we’ve
also done “Willie and the Hand Jive” by the Johnny Otis Show; “Rockin Robin”
by Bobby Day, and “Whole Lot of Shakin Going On”. You should see the
faces of joy and happiness when we do “Peanut, Peanut Butter, and Jelly”
because when we sing “jelly”, we are supposed to jump up. The higher
I jump up, the more higher the preschoolers jump up..I have found out
that the more enthusiasm I put in, the more enthusiastic they become,
seriously. When I don’t come (I don’t have a car and don’t drive because
I am autistic. I’m 34 but I don’t drive) the children are just dull and not even
half as excited as when I am around. I am like a ringleader virtually. To
the kids, I’m just an overgrown child that has a lot of enthusiasm. And
I do put in a lot of effort into it. I have a cold that made me really tired
this week so didn’t go, but my librarian friend had it too and she didn’t
do it either this week she was so sick that she stayed home, but even if
she had gone, she wouldn’t have done Storytime b/c it would have taken
so much energy. It is a very active Storytime and it really wears you down
jumping around and running around. Usually my friend will read one
book, then do a song, then read another book, then another song, and so
forth.

Thank God at least the library staff and all the librarians love me. And
thank God I have friends in their 40s and 50s and 60s such as like
my old instructors from community college and from some others.
And Thank God that children accept me for who I am too. I can’t imagine
what I would be if it weren’t for children. I owe them everything.

But back to what I am saying, being called a pedo because I collect
vintage children’s shoes really makes me so steaming hot. Especially
since I am very forgiving and don’t hold grudges and don’t even judge
murderers and criminals because they might have done things that are
bad, but haven’t we ALL done things that were “bad”. Are any of us
sinless?? Don’t we all do things we can’t control? Maybe people kill
people because of something they can’t control. I feel really bad when I
see children grow up and become criminals, I feel very sad. Even this
25 year old and 30 year old who attacked this African American guy -
what made them do that? It kills me to think that when i was in 9th grade,
this 25 year old was in kindergarten, and probably a nice little boy and
look what he became now. S***. I just wish people wouldn’t judge me
for everything. And people look at me strange when I act like a 4 year old
(I have Autism, so I really can’t control that). Just because I’m 5 feet 11
inches I’m supposed to act like an adult?? What is with that?? And,
I have never hurt a child and NEVER would think about doing that, I couldn’t
even think about emotionally hurting a child, and I have never killed anything
bigger than a spider (and felt really guilty about that because I thought
about Charlotte’s Web and how Charlotte helped Wilbur and saved his
life. I know, fictional story, but still that E.B. White book was very touching
when i read it at age 9 and still now).

Codi

First Codi your are experiencing ignorance. Your going to find that anywhere in the world. There are laws to protect us it is up to us to learn what they are. It’s unfortunate but the courts still say ignorance is no excuse. This by all means does not mean you are ignorant.

Second, Our laws are very vague. I was on a murder trial of a 15 year old who was 14 when the crime was committed. It was another 14 year old who was killed. The sad part was that both parents knew each other and lived only two apartments away. The other sad thing is the boy killed had a cousin in the opposite gang and withheld information while on the stand. This kid did not even pull the trigger but due to the law of Malice intent we found him guilty and he was sentenced to 95 to life. Very sad.

Lastley, I was stationed in Sumter South Carolina for two years and met many bigots as well as great people. I met an old guy who owned a local store when I was riding my motorcycle through the back woods. I went in to buy a Coke and he told me to grab one from the freezer and sit a spell with him to chat because they did not get many visitors in those parts. He use the word Niggra when speaking of blacks,and I look black but am mixed, but I knew he meant no harm. He was very nice and I did not have to pay for the Coke.

Codi, Life is what you make it. Choose your friends wisely and ignore the ones who want to bring you down. Keep on with your collections. That’s what makes Codi, Codi.

Sincerely,

Mo

Mo, 5 year olds and 4 year olds don’t pick their friends based on if they
are Black or White or Hispanic or Asian!! They are friends with another
child because they find them funny or interesting or because they love
them. I wonder what would happen if we were all 5 year olds, instead of
adults, if adults didn’t exist. Perhaps we wouldn’t have any wars, hatred,
or racism. How far do you think World War II would have gone if we were
all 4 or 5 year olds?? How many Jews do you think Adolf Hitler would have
killed if he was a 4 year old?? In the first place, toddlers and preschoolers
forgive in 10 minutes. You’ve seen 4 year olds argue with each other in
deep anger, and 10 minutes later, they’re back to playing again like nothing
even happened. And it’s because they are truly forgiving, and not because
they have a short term memory (ask a child psychiatrist, if you don’t
believe me). Now, imagine Adolf Hitler being like that. He wouldn’t even
have been able to round up the Jews and put them on trains to take
them to the concentration camps, and there probably wouldn’t have been
Auschwitz or Dachau or whichever SS concentration camp. We seriously
as adults corrupt children and teach them how to hate, how to bully,
how to be racist, etc. When are we going to stop messing around with
children??!! We wreck children, and I didn’t say that. I took a secondary
ed class in college and my professor even said that. I feel ashamed to
even be labeled as an “adult” because of all the things we do to mess
up children. I’m just an adult in name, I’m no more of an adult than anyone
with Autism or Down Syndrome. Inside, I’m still like a 5 year old, and
nearly anyone agrees with that, including even some enemies I have.

Codi

Why is it a hate crime if it is committed by a caucasian against a minority, but not a hate crime if it is a minority committing it against a caucasian? Either way, hate is involved, as well as just stupidity. Isn’t, by definition, ANY violent crime committed against ANYONE a HATE crime? Why must we differentiate? This just causes more racism, not tolerance. I was beaten up MANY times growing up in southside Oroville by blacks, for no other reason than I was white. Was that a hate crime? And, more importantly, if it happened today, would blacks be prosecuted under hate crime laws? Sadly, I don’t believe so. The pendulum has swung so that ANY crime against ANY minority is a HATE crime. Amazingly, if you look at crime statistics from the DOJ, there is far more minority on minority (in the same ethnic groups), and minority verus white violence than white against minority violence. But that doesn’t get air time from our politically correct media.

Yes, Mo, I agree, you should choose your friends wisely, but it’s still not possible
to ignore people calling you pedo or accusing you of crimes of moral turpitude
when you’ve never done anything to hurt anyone in your life. I honestly don’t
think I even ever had the intention of hurt someone emotionally on purpose.

That’s very sad about the kid that didn’t pull the trigger and got sentenced to
95 years to life. The strange part is he was 14. We don’t allow 14 year olds
to have a driver’s license, we don’t allow them to drink alcohol, we don’t
allow them to gamble, we don’t allow them to have consenting sex, we
don’t allow them to do tons of things that “adults” are able to do, but yet
the moment they commit a crime, they are an adult. You can’t treat a 14
year old like an adult when it suits you and treat a 14 year old like a child
when it suits you. That seems to me that the government is taking advantage
of the kids. A 14 year old is either a child, or they are adults. They can’t
be both. Do you know what I mean??

And about South Carolina – I guess you must have been at Shaw AFB
(I am a geography whiz) at Sumter. Well, although that guy might have
called you a niggra, he didn’t mean any harm like you said. I wouldn’t say
that’s bigoted. He treated you nicely and gave you Coke for free and
said that he seldom got much visitors. He treated you with respect,
that’s the thing. Now, I have a 74 year old friend in my local community
college who happens to be African American. He is a very good friend
and he works in the chemistry lab. Well, one day he told me that he
was “Negro”. I said to him “Please don’t say that, you are African American”,
and he kept telling me he was a Negro. But obviously, he didn’t say that
with a negative tone. I just don’t like to use the N word at all, even if
Black people insist they get called that. My friend is originally from Jamaica
and he goes out of his way to help you – he’s going to retire in 1 month
at age 74. He has had a great education to say the least. He has an
advanced college degree (master degree). I have a BA in Geography
from CSU Stanislaus in Turlock, California. I lived in Turlock for 3 years.
Most people were nice to me, some students were not.

Codi

Taylor, that’s interesting, very interesting. Maybe he fell in with bad company??
Or maybe all 3 of them were having a miserable time in their life, so they
were taking out their anger on someone else?? With our economic situation the way it is, I can’t say I really blame any young person for being mad now,
since they probably won’t get Social Security when they get old, but they
are paying into it, because Social Security won’t exist when they get old.
And that’s even if they have a job. Right now, it’s hard to even have a job.

And by the way, another reason why I want to move to the Carolinas is because I like small towns, and I feel there is more of a sense of community in small
towns (I mean like 10,000 people). I’ve always felt that, even here in California.
Turlock, and even say, Sonora, and Placerville, are more community oriented
than San Francisco for example. The thing about small towns is if people tend
to know each other and they tend to look after each other. Neighbors look
after neighbors. And the thing is, if they look after each other, they’ll look
after ME too. And I think I really really desperately need that – especially
with my developmental disability (Autism) and that I need the community
to be there for me. Remember that emotionally and socially, I am like
a 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 year old. In big cities, there is a sense of impersonal
business, people don’t really get to know you and people don’t have time
for you. People are so busy working that they don’t have time for their
children even here. That’s how children end up in the wrong crowd
with no one to guide them. Take Lancaster near LA, the commute time
is at least 2 hours each way to LA + 8 hours of work. There aren’t that
many hours left for family time.

So I think a small town might be much better for me, for my psychological
health and physical health. If I was more higher functioning like some
people I know with Asperger’s who are emotionally and socially a 16
year old, a big city might be more understandable (eg. amusement parks,
night life, etc) but I am willing to pass that all up because I really need
the community’s support.

Codi

Hate crime? A hate crime could be more than just racial hate. It could be based
on disability, or if you are gay, or if whatever. I mean, I have Autism. If you
went and attacked me, that would be a hate crime, because I have a
developmental disability. And yes, if a black person attacks a white person
like you, that SHOULD be a hate crime. I have heard of disabled people being
beat up, and yes that is a hate crime. Does it have to be racial??

Palermo…. Linda…. Olivehurst… can’t really tell them apart…. they are hamlets where these type of events aren’t looked as crimes…. just like the deep south in the 50′s and 60′s. In reality it isn’t their fault, their general level of education doesn’t go beyond a GED certificate, if they got lucky guessing the answers in the multiple choice test.

Shaw AFB is correct! Your points are valid and I agree with the small town feeling that’s why I moved to Manteca and now live in North Stockton. I have great neighbors of all races. I agree that people need to open their minds. I learned a lot about Autism by watching a movie on the life of Temple Grandon. She really overcame a lot of adversity as well as you. Keep strong and good luck in your future.

Mo

Hey Joe, If a black attacks a white because he’s white it’s a hate crime. Please don’t try to be little the report.

The attackers are cowardly if there was a black guy & a white girl they wouldn’t have been so brave. Just cause their family tree don’t have a fork in it they think their better then the rest of us.

If you were beaten up solely because of your race then yes,it was a hate crime.Logic requires that we hold all races to the SAME standards.But,this was still a hate crime.

you do not know the details, and the media does not name the charges, the DA does. Your “pendulum” seems to be hatred. You and all of the so-called Tea Party “members.”

Mo, of course I know, I’m a geographer. I have 1,200 street maps in my collection,
mostly of places in California, but also many places in South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, etc. I will even ask realtors
to send me maps of their towns if they are so small they aren’t covered by
AAA maps (American Automobile Association maps). I once got a Teletubby
key chain toy from someone at Shaw AFB on Ebay. I think they were retailed
at Burger King in the late 1990s, as I recall. I like Upstate South Carolina
(Greenville/Spartanburg area) a lot!! Some places in the western part of
North Carolina are very nice too, especially around Asheville, Rutherfordton,
The Great Smokies, etc. Yeah, I know about Temple Grandin all right. The
thing is is that she is a professor at Colorado State University. I couldn’t
even begin to think I could ever be a professor. In fact, I can’t even handle
a job. Temple is certainly more advanced than I am. I can’t even sit still
for 20 minutes without getting up and in an office environment, it is easier
having a 7 year old work for you than me, because I will get up all the
time and I will talk to everyone in my area and distract other people from
what are supposed to be doing.

Of course, there are other autism films too, like Rain Man starring Dustin
Hoffman – that’s probably the film that most people associate with
Autism, to be honest. As you can see, I can talk fine and I don’t have
any problems communicating my needs and I’m close to normal in
IQ – but here’s the thing, my emotional and social age is about ~ 5 years old.
In some ways, I’m more disabled than some intellectually handicapped people
are. Adversity – I’ve had to deal with that all my life. I was bullied all the
time in 5th grade up till 10th grade. I never knew that 10 year olds could be
so cruel at times till I was bullied by them at that age, when I was 10 myself.
I mean, I was kicked, hit, and all that. Strangely enough, I have NEVER been
bullied by young children (I mean kindergartners, preschoolers, toddlers,
and anything up to 4th grade) at ANY age. I have never been bullied by
5 year olds when I was 5, or when I was 10, or 15, or 20, or 34. That
is one thing consistent. And because of that, they have endeared me
to them. I have several friends that are children; I also have plenty of friends
who are over age 40-45 years old. I have very few friends that are
10 to 40 years old. Of course, that’s not unusual with autism to not have
friends your age. My caring and love of preschoolers has absolutely nothing
to do with my vintage children shoe collections. As much as I adore my
115 pairs of 1970s-1990s (mostly toddler sized) Mary Janes, T-straps,
and English sandals, that has nothing to do with my friendship with
young children. I mean, if they were mean like how some 20-some year
olds are to me, there is no way I would stick around them for 2 seconds,
I’d run away 1,000 miles and stay far away from them as possible.
Do you know why I love 4 and 5 year olds?? Because they accept me for
who I am, and they love me very much and they care about me, and they’ve
never treated me poorly. Giving something to the world isn’t always
monetary. Some people think by contributing to the world it has to be financially.
That is so untrue because a lot of children contribute to the world and by
being kind, loving, understanding, and accepting and forgiving and all that,
those are better gifts than any monetary donation anyone could throw in.

You live in North Stockton? That isn’t really a little town. LOL. Try
Lodi or Turlock. Or Lockeford. North Stockton can be a little creepy sometimes, but it’s MUCH better than downtown Stockton like Charter Way and El Dorado.
Talk about a shady area of town!! Actually, my honorary Grandma (not really
my real Grandma, but my 52 year old friend’s mom) lives in Stockton near
Pacific and Hammer Lane, and one of her great-grandsons who is 11
lives with his brother (who is 15 and has Asperger’s) and mom and dad
over on Hammer Lane near Interstate 5. Grandma’s grandson, my friend
Pete’s son (Pete is 52), Josh, is 8 years old and lives in Turlock. I met
Josh when he was only 3 years old back in November 2005, when I was
living in Turlock and going to CSUS.

Take care Mo!!!

Codi

Its a hate crime because the attackers made it a race issue obviously. Its not a hate crime because of the races of the people involved its because its what caused the attack and what they said during the attack. People like you who think everything is based on race and inequality cause more racism. You got beat up and you say its because you were white, if that is the case its a hate crime if not its just people doing bad things to another person, not a hate crime. And no ANY crime against a minority is not a hate crime but if it makes it easier to fuel your race issues you will justify it that way.

Not me. Don’t write a comment that attacks everyone when not everyone says
that they knew all the details. No one knows all the details. And I find it very
judgemental that you mention that we must ALL be Tea Party members. That’s
complete hogwash. And at least, one thing, The Tea Partiers (which you probably insist on calling ALL Republicans) have certainly been much nicer to me than those flaming bleeding hearted liberals who call someone a pedophile when they don’t agree with their viewpoint. At least, the Republicans don’t call the Democrats such morally repugnant names!! Your “pendulum” seems to be
ignorance and judgements before you even know what people said here.

I didn’t say this 25 year old was guilty automatically. I never said that.
And that’s true there’s always a second side to a story. But news media
is disgustingly 95% liberal. They never show the other side of the story.
Fair and Balanced, not one sided flops. Don’t always believe what you heard
first – the first story isn’t always the correct one. If Dad asks his sons
who did something, that doesn’t mean the first child who told the story
is correct necessarily. That’s true. But to lump us all together and say
we are ALL Tea Party members is crazy.

Codi

And Grandma’s great grandson who is 11, his name is Jesse and he’s such a sweet kid. This is the one that lives off of Interstate 5 near Hammer Lane.
His 15 year old brother is more introverted because of his asperger’s but
Jesse has always been a ray of sunshine, even when I first knew him when
he was 6 years old, in 2006. I went up to State Railroad Museum in old
Sacramento with him and Grandma and Grandpa in March 2006, wonderful
time there. And, I saw Jesse, his sister Destiny, and my little pal Josh (who
is 8 now) at the church dedication in February (Grandma and her church
members built a new church in Northeast Stockton). There were so many
people at the dedication ceremony on Feburary 5th that some of us
couldn’t even get seats, so a lot of the children played outside, including
some adults. I was having the time of my life playing tag with Jesse, Josh,
and Destiny!! We tried playing tag with no tagbacks, but I wasn’t too keen on
that, so we just played regular tag. But, the memories….oh, the memories.
I have several photos from that day too.

Children have made a powerful imprint on my life and I suspect that they
will do that till the day I get buried.

Take care!!

Codi

Incorrect. It is not automatically a hate crime simply because you were attacked and you have autism. it becomes a hate crime if you were attacked BECAUSE you have autism.

This has nothing to do with being a member of an unofficial political organization… it has to do with facts and it has to do with people finally standing up and saying “How come?”
Fact is fact. A DA filed assault charges against two African Americans who beat a white man near to death. They received probation. When the family of the victim retaliated, they were charged with a hate crime, because they were whites attacking blacks. What’s up with that?
At colleges and universities there are Black Student Support Groups, Hispanic Student Support Groups, Asian Student Support Gruops, etc. none of whom will allow a white student to join. But the few times a student tried starting up a Student Support Group for white students, the other groups sued and won.
Yes, our judicial system and our laws only protect those who are DISCRIMINATED against… and when a white person is discriminated against, they do not call it discrimination, they call it REVERSE DISCRIMINATION, which gives creedence to it not being recognized.
I’m not racist… I’m just tired of it. Discrimination is discrimination. Calling something “reverse discrimination” is discrimination in itself.

So a couple white guys attack another white guy and now it’s a hate crime? Is it just bc there was a black passenger in the car?

I’m still waiting to see a hate-free crime

you people are using this site like it’s your own personal blogs.

Carol I take it you never been to college? I am Hispanic and a member of the society of Hispanic engineers. At my school our president is Caucasian and or vice president is Asian, anybody is encouraged to join, I’ve never heard of anybody being barred from joining a organization at a college campus because of race, gender, creed, disabilities, etc…. There are no “white” student groups because “white” is not a race or even a culture, it is a rather vague label, what would such a group promote and celebrate? There are groups representing “white” races such as those promoting the people and culture of Scottish, French, German, etc… descent.

For a crime to be categorized as a hate crime, there needs to be some ancillary evidence that ethnicity/culture etc. was the motivation. If a white guy beats up a black guy and steals his wallet, it might “just” be a robbery, but if witnesses testify that he used racial slurs during the crime or had a Confederate flag on his t-shirt, had a personal history of racist behavior or something like that, then there is evidence that it was possibly a hate crime. And of course the evidence has to be sufficient to convince a jury. The same criteria would be applied be to a crime committed by a member of a minority against another minority or against a white person as well.

Hey, I think that was a hate email!! Have you ever been to Palermo, Joel? I am the Postmaster there, and 95% of my customers are fine, upstanding people who just want to be away from pompous airbags…… We do have a lot of folks on the poverty line, and a lot who receive assistance (and I have an issue with that!), but by far most of my customers are hardworking, salt of the earth people. Before you display YOUR bigotry, Joel, have some facts. You do portray yourself as someone educated…. act like it.

if a black person attacks a white person, it’s just that. but if white person attacks a black person it’s a hate crime. crime is crime there should not be exceptions for anyone.

Isn’t all violent crime based on hate? Or have minorities mastered crime to such a degree that they can kill you for your $20 and not feel anything about the crime? Therefore they can’t be charged with having hate because they have no emotion what so ever about it.

If someone attacks you it’s a hate crime, I doubt they are beating your arse cause they like you.

It’s a small world after all ! It’s a small world after all ! It’s a small small small world!

Reading the comments It is obvious why the country is so messed up. Hate crime is a PC word to mollify the PC crowd. What these guys did is beat up somebody, why does a hate crime charge have to be made to send them to jail for a long long long time? Apparently if you beat up somebody it is not considered a crime in the good old USA.

Are you slow or something? Look up the definition of a hate crime and stop using it literally as a way to spew your own racist beliefs. Same for all who are trying to act like they don’t understand the definition of a hate crime, if you really are that ignorant view Erica and Anthony’s comments….. Again, I don’t believe you are that ignorant I think you just wanted the opportunity to show your hate (literally) for minorities.

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