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the opposite of a hate crime

redrobin

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A conservative black organization calls it an outrage that authorities and the media are ignoring the racial connection to the brutal beating death of a Bosnian-American at the hands of black youths in St. Louis.

St. Louis police have charged 17-year-old Robert Mitchell in the death of 32-year-old Zemir Begic, who was attacked and killed by youths wielding hammers.

Police have a total of three suspects in custody and are looking for a fourth. The beating death comes in the wake of the recent rioting and looting in nearby Ferguson, after a grand jury did not press charges against a white police officer who killed a black teenager Michael Brown, after the teenager assaulted him and refused to cooperate.

St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said Begic's death was an isolated incident and was not targeted because he was Bosnian.

Chris Arps, a St. Louis resident and spokesman for the Project 21 black leadership network, says the local media is also downplaying the racial aspect.

"When the story first came out - and the St. Louis Post Dispatch has a history of this - they didn't tell the races of the perpetrators," says Arps. "They just gave a description without mentioning their race and their ages."

Despite the brutality of the Begic murder, he doubts authorities would pursue hate crimes charges against the perpetrators.
 

Steve

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According to a police report, at about 5:30 a.m., a Bosnian woman was driving on the 4600 block of Lansdowne when three black males in their late-teens to early-20s stepped in front of her vehicle.

When the woman tried to drive around them, the suspects reportedly pulled out a firearm, so she stopped the car.

After hitting her windshield with a crowbar, the suspects pulled the woman from her car, threw her on the ground and kicked her.

A suspect grabbed her purse, searched it, and told the others it was empty. All three suspects then fled the scene.

“This has all the appearances of a hate crime based on the information that we have,” St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay responds. “The fact that they did suggest that she was a Bosnian – she was a Bosnian lady. We’ve already turned this over to the FBI.”

Slay says he has been meeting with the Bosnian community already to discuss their concerns about safety – this after the hammer attack that killed a 32-year-old man in the Bosnian neighborhood earlier this week.

As of now, officers are investigating this incident as a “bias crime” based on the victim’s account of the incident. The investigation is ongoing.
 

Steve

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Mike said:
The war is on!!!!!! Many don't realize it yet though. :shock:

Demographics

As of 2013 there were 70,000 Bosnians in St. Louis. This is the largest population of Bosnians in the United States and the largest Bosnian population outside of Europe.[3] Most are Bosniak Muslims

it may end up being a cultural war that a wise person would sit out for the time being.
 

Steve

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iwannabeacowboy said:
Haven't kept up, what's the Bosnian connection?

not sure.. but it probably has to do with them pushing poor blacks out of a neighborhood.. and taking jobs blacks don't want...
 
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