Jank, if it wasn’t a bias of race the shooter had against his victims, what was the motive?
You don’t seriously think robbery do you? Why intentionally target and shoot the infant? What possible threat did the infant present to the shooter?
Hatred, Jank. In it’s purest form. The execution of an infant, NSDAP-style.
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Why would you believe it was racial? Just because the suspects are black?
I think you hit the nail on the head when you ask why would they kill the baby like that over money? Doesn't really make sense does it?
If they did this then I would say it was just pure evil. People that have no conscience and it would not have mattered what race the child was. If it was a hate crime why not kill them both? The mother was white. The baby was mixed.
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Isn’t one of the qualifiers for racial bias that the suspect and victim to be of different races. I would feel the same way if the shooter was white and the victim was black but that’s an easy call isn’t it?
I don’t believe this was a random act. I believe the shooter targeted his victim by race and not for robbery. How much money do you think a mother pushing a stroller might carry with her? No doubt the shooter passed up many more appealing opportunities to rob someone if financial gain was his motive.
Regarding the mixed race of the child. I don’t know what the baby looked like but consider this...Obama is mixed yet his Negro genes are far more dominant than are his Caucasian...so much so he is referred to as our first black president with hardly a reference to him being half white. On the other hand, we have all seen mixed races where Caucasian genes were dominant. This may have been the case or not.
But that aside, nothing a pure racist hates more than those of mixed blood. Those I have talked to speak of their race being betrayed by having an offspring of mixed blood. They refer to the offspring as...well, I’ll just let that go. And for clarification, have heard these comments from blacks as well as whites. You may have heard similar comments yourself and nothing came of it. But the difference is a pure racist will act on it somehow, someway. May be verbal. May be physical.
The killer said he would shoot the baby. That’s not a random act. That’s premeditation. There was nothing to be gained by shooting the child yet he shot the child anyway. He shot the baby, a total stranger, in the face. As he pointed his gun, he had to see the toddler’s eyes wide open in innocent curiosity or abject terror at the sounds of gunfire. And then fully conscious of his feelings, the shooter pressed the trigger. It was a deliberate decision.
What is a hate crime if it’s not personal and how much more personal can you get than shooting someone in the face at close range?
So my question still stands. What was the shooter’s motive for executing the baby if not being racially biased? It may not make sense, but neither does dragging a man behind a truck because he’s of a different race. Hatred of that sort never makes any sense. These suspects were easy to spot because their bodies were walking bill-boards of hatred. Not all hate crime suspects are so accommodating.
Why not kill the mother? Reports I heard on the news was that she was shot twice. A bullet grazed her ear and she was hit in the foot. Where I come from that is considered assault and battery with intent to kill. By the way, I don’t think the shooter intended to shoot the mother in the foot. I think he was trying to put another round in the baby and missed.
BTW. I totally agree with the posters here who say why have hate crimes...murder is murder and murder is wrong no matter what the relationship between suspect and victim might be.