Since when is this NOT a Hate Crime?

Oh this is not a hate crime, this is just some idiot negro tossing a brick through a Window.

Via The Austin Texas Statesman’s The Blotter:

Police are investigating a brick with an offensive message thrown into the window of an East Austin home.

The brick, thrown through a 4-year-old boy’s bedroom window, read “Keep Eastside Black. Keep Eastside Strong.”

The homeowner, Barbara Frische, who is white, said she has lived in the home for 10 years.

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It’s the first time anything like this has ever happened to me,” she said.

Frische was featured in a Statesman Watch article published in May in which she lobbied for action to be taken on a charred house that posed a safety hazard.

She has not received negative feedback from area residents about the article, she said, and does not believe this morning’s incident is connected to it.

Police have not classified this incident as a hate crime, said Austin Police Sgt. Richard Stresing, because hate crimes target an individual specifically because of an identifying characteristic, like race. Police say the incident has been classified as criminal mischief and deadly conduct.

Incidents found to be based on race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability or gender are flagged as hate crimes, Stresing said, so they can be referred to the Department of Justice.

In Austin, law enforcement agencies notified the Department of Justice of five hate crime incidents in 2007, the most recent year statistics were available in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report. Two were based on race, two were based on ethnicity and one was based on sexual orientation.

That is a decrease from 2006, when the city reported 13 hate crimes, eight of which were racially motivated, one was religion-based, two were based on sexual orientation and two were on ethnicity.

The state reported a total of 242 hate crime incidents in 2007.

It’s difficult to count how many hate crimes occur in Austin because people often don’t report them, said Lisa Goodgame, director of the Austin chapter of the Anti-Defamation League. She said many people are too afraid to approach law enforcement officials or human rights agencies about their situations.

“Just because we haven’t heard reports of them doesn’t mean they don’t happen,” Goodgame said.

Oh, no, this is not a hate crime. This just happens to be a brick, that was thrown by a black person into a White Person’s window; with a hateful note on it. Nothing to see here people, move along.

Welcome to post-racial America!

Al Sharpton would be proud. :pissedoff:

I should have titled this entry; another good reason to own a gun. Is because of stupidity like this. I hope the catch them. But we all know that in Post-Obama America, the very worst that they will get is a slap on the hand and maybe even a pat on the back from Al Sharpton himself! :pissedoff:

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