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I don't doubt it, but has a racial motive be confirmed? The first thing I heard was that he was a sex addict targeting what he thought were sex workers.

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I don't doubt it, but has a racial motive be confirmed? The first thing I heard was that he was a sex addict targeting what he thought were sex workers.

I've been a bit troubled to read some of the articles arguing that they need to make it easier to charge people under "Hate Crimes" legislation.

Apparently it is too much of a burden to be forced to show somebody had racist motivations in order to convict them of having racist motivations.

The attitude I'm seeing in some of these articles seems to be one that figures than anytime somebody in a minority group is the victim of a crime (at least by somebody outside that same group) it OBVIOUSLY must be a hate crime, and should be prosecuted as such.

I'm a little wary of the whole notion of "hate crime" legislation in the first place, because if it isn't applied carefully, it can easily become an attempt to have two wrongs make a right.

But I agree with the principle, in theory. The notion that crimes that target people simply because one hates the group they are identified with need special attention, and an greater effort to discourage them, makes sense.

But if you go beyond that, and decide that you no longer have to demonstrate that motive, but get to assume it (especially if you decide you can assume it only for certain groups), then you no longer have equal protection under the law. If you don't have to demonstrate a racist/sexist/etc. motive for the crime to qualify it for harsher punishment, but get to assume it when certain people are the targets of crimes, then you are making it MORE illegal to commit the same crime based solely on the identity of the victim. That's not a great precedent (and it certainly wasn't fair when applied in the other direction, before "hate crimes" were even a legal concept).

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I don't doubt it, but has a racial motive be confirmed? The first thing I heard was that he was a sex addict targeting what he thought were sex workers.

Lets not assume its race related yet. Also here'ssomething to think about why now with hate crimes against Asians? Unless i missed something like a current event involving Asians this seems random. Maybe the shooter wanted 15 minutes of fame and this deplorable action was his action? Politics aside pre meditated murder is pre meditated murder

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^Yeah, the guy is an evil nutjob whether he did it for sexual reasons, racial, or something totally random.

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^Yeah, the guy is an evil nutjob whether he did it for sexual reasons, racial, or something totally random.

I think fame because all these mass shooters get glorified in the media magazines hell even documentaries and film. Its like leaving a legacy after death to be remembered and the copycats see and worship them like martyrs and heros. This is random and sorry for ranting but what is it with women who fall in love with people who murder there wives? Thats always bugged me

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I don't like the concept of "hate crimes." When you do something to someone that's malicious, it's not because you like the person.

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I don't like the concept of "hate crimes." When you do something to someone that's malicious, it's not because you like the person.

Yeah, I agree. I can't believe that if a family member of mine was killed that I would find it particularly worse if they were targeted by some demographic versus robbed and killed or randomly picked by a serial killer. It's all evil.

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I don't doubt it, but has a racial motive be confirmed? The first thing I heard was that he was a sex addict targeting what he thought were sex workers.

Police (one of whom, Captain Jay Baker, should definitely be kept from the case because of his own blatant racism) have said the killer was cooperating during initial interrogations and that the killer claims race was not the reason he murdered those people. It's still early in the investigation so whether or not race was the deciding factor is difficult to say.

Do note, the killer told a witness "I'm here to kill all Asians," and most of the victims were Asian.

And the police briefings were a fucking joke. I don't expect all the answers right away, but both Baker and that chief were absolute amateurs in speaking to the press and deserve to be criticized for embarrassing themselves in such a manner after such a tragedy.

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I don't doubt it, but has a racial motive be confirmed? The first thing I heard was that he was a sex addict targeting what he thought were sex workers.

It hasn't been confirmed, but the fact that Asians were largely attacked is a pretty good sign of what the killers motiviations were, and it doesn't look pretty.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...als-dies-at-96

Merrill Jonas, a casting director who helped place such stars as Patricia Neal, Karl Malden, Anna Maria Alberghetti and Mel Brooks in TV commercials, has died. She was 96.

Jonas died Thursday after a long illness at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, her son, Garrett Glaser, said.

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https://news.yahoo.com/elgin-baylor-...184633909.html

Elgin Baylor, the Lakers’ 11-time NBA All-Star, died Monday of natural causes. He was 86.

The Lakers announced that Baylor died in Los Angeles with his wife, Elaine, and daughter Krystal by his side.

With a silky-smooth jumper and fluid athleticism, Baylor played a major role in revolutionizing basketball from a ground-bound sport into an aerial show.

Lakers Governor Jeanie Buss praised Baylor as “THE superstar of his era,” adding that his many accolades speak to that.

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https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/03/20/...-founder-dies/

Texas Roadhouse founder and CEO Kent Taylor died Thursday, according to a post on the restaurant chain’s Facebook page. He was 65.

“Our community and the restaurant industry lost a legend and the Taylor family lost a wonderful son, father and grandad this week,” said a joint statement from Taylor’s family and Texas Roadhouse sent to CNN on Saturday.

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...222749230.html

Eric Spinato, a top booker for Fox Business and Fox News, died of the coronavirus on Sunday.

Spinato’s brother, Dean, wrote on Instagram that “COVID took my brother today. He was a gem and one of a kind. I’m so broken and lost for words.”

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https://deadline.com/2021/03/george-...gs-1234720483/

George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor whose credits range from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Where’s Poppa? to Just Shoot Me and The Goldbergs, died today. He was 87.

His wife, Sonia Segal confirmed the news. “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” she said in a statement.

For the past eight years, Segal had been a series regular on ABC’s comedy series The Goldbergs. The last episode of the 1980s family comedy that he filmed before his death, Episode 16 of the show’s current eighth season, is set to air April 7. The series is expected to pay tribute to Segal on-air.

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https://deadline.com/2021/03/bertran...ad-1234721636/

Iconic French filmmaker and passionate cinephile Bertrand Tavernier, known for such award winning works as A Sunday In The Country, Round Midnight, Capitaine Conan, It All Starts Today and Life And Nothing But, has died at the age of 79. The news was confirmed by France’s Lumière Institute in Lyon of which Tavernier was president.

The organization tweeted: “With his wife Sarah, his children Nils and Tiffany and his grandchildren, the Lumière Institute and Thierry Frémaux are saddened and pained to inform you of the disappearance, today, of Bertrand Tavernier.”