-By Warner Todd Huston
A Native American woman who knocked a white woman unconscious while screaming “I hate white people” did not commit a racially motivated “hate crime,” a judge ruled in a recent case. But if this isn’t a hate crime… what IS?
Judge Harry Van Harten of the Alberta Provincial Court in Calgary, Canada, claimed in a July ruling that he did not see enough proof that assailant Tamara Crowchief was motivated by race hate when she launched an unprovoked, sneak attack on victim Lydia White in November.
The judge made his ruling despite testimony that Crowchief yelled “I hate white people” during her attack. The ruling was also despite evidence that during her arrest Crowchief told officers that, “the white man was out to get her.”
But Judge Van Harten insisted that wasn’t enough “evidence” to prove racist intent.
“There is no evidence either way about what the offender meant or whether … she holds or promotes an ideology which would explain why this assault was aimed at this victim,” the judge said in his ruling.
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Judge Outrageously Rules Punching a White Woman After Yelling ‘I Hate White People’ is NOT a Hate Crime”