{"id":7668,"date":"2009-05-11T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2009-05-11T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T22:03:30","slug":"12-white-jurors-agree-kicking-a-mexican-to-death-isnt-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7668","title":{"rendered":"12 White Jurors Agree: Kicking A Mexican To Death Isn't Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

“He’s dead because he’s Mexican. This is jury nullification….”
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Meanwhile, check out the reaction of the woman interviewed about one minute into this piece:<\/p>\n

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\nOrnicus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nConsidering some of the details of the killing,<\/a> it’s also inordinately clear this was a classic bias crime, with the incident instigated by racially charged taunts that made clear the victim was selected because of racial animus:<\/p>\n

“Isn’t it a little late for you guys to be out?” the boys said, according to court documents. “Get your Mexican boyfriend out of here.”<\/p>\n

… Burke recalled hearing one final, ominous threat as the teens ran. “They yelled, ‘You effin bitch, tell your effin Mexican friends get the eff out of Shenandoah or you’re gonna be laying effin next to him,’ ” she said.<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is, of course, the entire purpose of bias crimes: To hold the victim up as an example: “You’re next.” The purpose is to terrorize the target community, to drive them out, eliminate them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via: Racism Review<\/a>. More on this case:<\/p>\n

The Unapologetic Mexican<\/a>
\nStuff White People Do<\/a> (source of the second video above)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“He’s dead because he’s Mexican. This is jury nullification….” Meanwhile, check out the reaction of the woman interviewed about one minute into this piece: Ornicus writes: Considering some of the details of the killing, it’s also inordinately clear this was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-migrant-rights-etc","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}