Is it because the 16 year old is liable to become violent, or is it over reaction to what appears to be a case of misplaced love? I mean seriously, sometimes you have to wonder about just where the lines are being drawn. Over the corpses or way before they even become aware of the danger?
A judge has ordered one kid held in custody for related Hate Crimes. Reason is that he is afraid of what she, yes she, might do given she has no parental supervision at home.
In ordering the first girl held in custody Judge Michael Chmiel told the teenager’s mother that he is “m very nervous about your daughter being home without supervision,” noting that the girl has had about a dozen other run-ins with police over recent years, the Northwest Herald reported. (see Story)
What I don’t follow, is how is this being treated as a Hate Crime? I mean these two girls supposedly distributed some flyer with homophobic drawings and saying on it. Okay, I can see that being Hateful, much like the diatribes by the KKK and other Supremacist groups do, but isn’t this going a little overboard here? I know, words are hurtful, and on the surface it does appear to be just hate. However, I think sometimes we are too quick to react, too quick to making it seem Hate based, when it isn’t.
Some of the story talks about how it is a revenge thing, for a love affair/relationship gone sour. And that alone should maybe lead authorities to go slow here. I am not condoning it, but by allowing these type of things to be lumped in with real hate, I don’t know. Kind of diminishes the whole thing, and lessens the reasoning for having sexual orientation protected under Hate Crime Laws.
