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posted by on Saturday January 07 2017, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly

Four people have been charged in Chicago over a beating live streamed to Facebook. In addition to hate crime charges, there are counts of aggravated kidnapping, battery, and unlawful restraint:

Authorities in Chicago charged four people with hate crimes Thursday following the emergence of a disturbing video appearing to show them shouting obscenities about President-elect Donald Trump and white people while abusing a man authorities say has mental health problems. The footage, which Chicago's top police officer labeled "sickening," quickly went viral online. In the shaky video, a terrified young man in a gray hooded sweatshirt and dark pants is seen crouching in a corner, his wrists and neck bound with orange bands, his mouth taped shut.

A young woman films as two young men slash the sleeves of his shirt with knives, then take turns punching him, slapping him and stomping on his head. At one point, one of the men can be seen cutting the victim's hair and scalp with a knife, and the victim is later shown bleeding from his injuries. As the victim cowers with his back to the wall, someone can be heard repeatedly shouting, "F‑‑‑ Donald Trump" and "F‑‑‑ white people."

Throughout the 28-minute video — which focuses mostly on the young woman behind the camera — the group laughs, jokes and listens to music as the victim sits motionless on the floor. About halfway through, someone says the man "represents Trump," and threatens to put him in the trunk of a car and "put a brick on the gas."

Also at NPR, USA Today, CNN, and Reuters.

The video is available at LiveLeak. Feel free to search for it if you wish.

So, did Black Mirror predict this type of event?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:19PM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:19PM (#450856) Journal

    From the FBI, for those unaware:

    A hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting statistics, the FBI has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.” Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.

    It's effectively a variant of the legal definition of assault, which boils down to threatening somebody so that they're reasonably concerned that they're in imminent danger of being attacked in some way (physical, verbal, financial, online, etc.), whether the act is carried out or not.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by BK on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:25PM

    by BK (4868) on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:25PM (#450859)

    Assaulting someone is bad.

    Assaulting someone while thinking bad things is worse.

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    ...but you HAVE heard of me.
    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:47PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:47PM (#450864) Journal

      Motivation is a relevant factor in crime.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @07:43PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 08 2017, @07:43PM (#451138)

        only to a socialist trying to enforce behavior modification agendas.

        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Sunday January 08 2017, @07:57PM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday January 08 2017, @07:57PM (#451145) Journal

          Socialist behavior modification agendas, like, don't murder people? Murder, as contrasted with homocide, requires malice aforethought, in other words, specific mens rea. But obviously you are, um, someone lacking any such thing? So off to the camps for you! Don't worry, for those incapable of thought, thought crimes are impossible, although that is all the more pity. But we do have some of the best operant conditioning programs in the world! Developed by Capitalists, so not only good, but good for you, and profitable.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @10:57PM (#450870)

      Assaulting someone while thinking bad things is worse.

      And in Georgia, being really super mad that your wife fucked someone else is a mitigating factor in murder. [ajc.com] If you are white.

      You win some, you lose some.