[Human Events] Towards a Home in Hate Crime Statutes?

In their never-ending quest for hate crimes, progressive advocates may soon find a new constituency.

Homelessness in Los Angeles, CA

One summer day of 2005, two teenage boys beat a homeless man dead in the woods some 55-miles northeast of Orlando, Florida. The murder of Michael Roberts, the 53-year-old victim, may have gone unnoticed were it not for the fact that his killers tried to showcase his body to a teenage girl, who, instead of being impressed, had her mother call the police. After an initial beating, the teenagers — one fourteen, the other eighteen, both high on pot — had dragged Roberts to their play fort, where they continued to assault him ruthlessly. The lethal blow was delivered by one of the boys jumping on a log placed across the man’s ribs.

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