More on this sad tale:"Justice Curtain said that Rintoull had used ''derogatory and insulting language'' before attacking Mr Gony but ''to say this killing was racially motivated is to deny a complex set of factors''.
She said Rintoull had phoned 000 three days earlier to report being chased by about 20 Sudanese men, some carrying knives, after trying to give a sandwich to a homeless African boy.
Justice Curtain said such a gesture was not consistent with his attack on Mr Gony being racially motivated."
It is not a crime to be a racist, so why would a judge be deciding if Clinton Rintoull is or is not a racist. The media quote is garbled, perhaps. There is a difference, legally, between simple assault and a hate crime. Perhaps the judge had decided that this assault did not meet the legal criterion to be a hate crime, although the accused man clearly expressed racist viewpoints. But that is not the same thing. We know little else about the attack from this short report.
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More on this sad tale:"Justice Curtain said that Rintoull had used ''derogatory and insulting language'' before attacking Mr Gony but ''to say this killing was racially motivated is to deny a complex set of factors''.
She said Rintoull had phoned 000 three days earlier to report being chased by about 20 Sudanese men, some carrying knives, after trying to give a sandwich to a homeless African boy.
Justice Curtain said such a gesture was not consistent with his attack on Mr Gony being racially motivated."
Humanoids are so weird.
December 21, 2009
eclepticearth commented on the word racist
It is not a crime to be a racist, so why would a judge be deciding if Clinton Rintoull is or is not a racist. The media quote is garbled, perhaps. There is a difference, legally, between simple assault and a hate crime. Perhaps the judge had decided that this assault did not meet the legal criterion to be a hate crime, although the accused man clearly expressed racist viewpoints. But that is not the same thing. We know little else about the attack from this short report.
December 21, 2009