• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    They beat a person near to death for looking too man-ish and being in the women’s bathroom. I don’t think hate crime will be a hard thing to prove here.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah just like it wouldnt be hard to prove cops killing innocents when there is literal video evidence, yet we know how thats working out.

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      Remember, some of the jury will probably be at least loosely against lesbians or trans people. If all you have is she said, he said, those people won’t convict for a hate crime. But if you stick to just the beating, which doesn’t need to prive a motive, they would vote to convict. It sucks, but that is what a jury of your peers means.