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When is a crime of hatred not a hate crime?
When is a crime of hatred not a hate crime?
The Guardian – January 24, 2015
By Marc Silver
I saw the story of America in three and a half minutes. They took place on Black Friday, 2012, in a gas station parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida. There, a white middle-aged software engineer named Michael Dunn argued with a black teenager, Jordan Davis, about the volume of the music playing in Davis’s car. Once those three and a half minutes elapsed, Dunn fired ten gunshots at the car, fatally wounding Davis.
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